Aubrey Plaza plays an indie filmmaker who seeks inspiration at a lake house retreat in this ambiguous slow-burner.
This illuminating documentary profiles extraordinary women musicians who shaped electronic sound.
A filmmaker turns serial killer in this lively meta mockumentary from writer/director Gillian Wallace Horvat.
An ASMR-powered documentary portrait of the famed and eloquent ethnographer and folklorist.
There’s a touch of Gregg Araki about this formally ambitious LGBT+ drama about sex in the digital age.
By Ella Kemp
There’s poetry in the mundane at every turn in Chloé Zhao’s impressive debut feature from 2015.
Kevin Macdonald’s based-on-a-true-story Guantanamo Bay drama too often loses its dramatic footing.
Paula Beer plays a woman with a supernatural secret in this unconventional modern-day fairy tale.
This gorgeous semi-memoir filters the ragged glory of the American Dream through a family of South Korean immigrant farmers.
Two of cinema’s most iconic monsters square off in Adam Wingard’s underwhelming IP crossover.
Eric André spins his tried-and-trusted brand of hidden-camera humour into a feature-length buddy comedy.
Cristi Puiu takes viewers on an intellectual odyssey with this stripped-back period drama set in a Transylvanian mansion.
Spanish veteran director Fernando Trueba returns with a handsome if dramatically inert autobiography.
A reclusive fossil collector has her quiet life interrupted in Francis Lee’s atmospheric coastal drama.
Istanbul’s semi-feral dog population is the focus of this thought-provoking ethnographic documentary.
By Leila Latif
Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer’s gruelling rape revenge thriller shrewdly subverts the genre.
By Weiting Liu
Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung’s cause célèbre-turned-success story combines hard-hitting drama with woozy romance.
By Elena Lazic
With her second feature, Hungarian writer/director Lili Horvát delivers a suspenseful elliptical thriller.
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