Film-Forward

Underland

One doesn’t need to go far underground before everything becomes strange.

Jinsei

Writer-director Ryuya Suzuki animated the entire film in 18 months via crowdfunding in a flash-art-meets-comic-book style that covers one man’s life across an entire century.

Power Ballad

This lean drama makes great use of the chemistry between Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas.

Forastera

A peculiar and unclassifiable ghost story, delightfully subversive in the way it unfolds under bright summer sunlight, in wide-open and illuminated spaces.

Time and Water

The documentary is as much about Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason’s reflections on his family as it is about Iceland’s environment.

Backrooms

Because of its overwhelming visual and sensory labyrinth, Backrooms is a fortunate marriage of an attractive concept and compelling execution.

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2026

Four women directors deliver singular films—these works are eye-openers, and each brings a strong point of view.

Ask E. Jean

The documentary profiling the woman who extracted damages from Donald Trump is inspiring and infuriating at the same time.

Forge

Its vivid sense of place is one of the film’s strengths.

Saccharine

You probably won’t lose your lunch watching Saccharine, but you might just get uncomfortable looking at your next meal.