By Leila Latif
Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson star in this slow-paced but perceptive race drama from Rebecca Hall.
By Ed Gibbs
Edgar Wright delivers a deliciously infectious, suitably absurdist ode to his unsung musical heroes.
Familiar thematic elements come together in Erin Vassilopoulos’ riff on the doppelgänger genre.
There’s shades of Miranda July in Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein’s deadpan end-of-the-world comedy.
Dash Shaw’s entrancing animated fable imagines a utopia filled with a dazzling array of mythic creatures.
Two best friends make a suicide pact in first-time feature director Jerrod Carmichael’s uneven black comedy.
A film censor becomes obsessed with unlocking the secrets of her sister’s disappearance in this stylish horror throwback.
There’s an eerie prescience to this alluring sci-fi chamber piece from Brazilian filmmaker Iuli Gerbase.
An apparent break-in sends a middle-class family into a spiral in Ronny Trocker’s exacting drama.
By Leila Latif
Questlove’s triumphant directorial debut charts the cultural impact and legacy of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.
Beach Rats director Eliza Hittman offers an unflinching look at the troubling reality of reproductive rights in the US.
By Ed Gibbs
This year’s Sundance docs explored political and personal vendettas so brazen, you couldn’t make them up.
Brandon Cronenberg sets late-capitalism in his crosshairs in this effective – and very gory – social horror.
Jude Law and Carrie Coon shine in Martha Marcy May Marlene director Sean Durkin’s eerie psychological thriller.
Dee Rees and Anne Hathaway tackle Joan Didion’s novel of the same name, with disastrous results.
By Ege Apaydın
The director of Beasts of the Southern Wild returns with a novel if underwhelming take on the Peter Pan fable.
Lee Isaac Chung’s beautifully observed drama follows a South Korean family who relocate to rural Arkansas.
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