Heartbound: A Different Kind of Love Story | TIFF 2018
Matchmaking Thai women with lonely, working-class bachelors in a small Danish town.
Film-Forward
Minding the Gap
A years-in-the-making documentary that is startlingly reflective.
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Inspired by the tell-everything 2012 memoir by Scotty Bowers, the matter-of-fact and sensational Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars.
Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham poignantly and often painfully captures the awkwardness and angst of the early teens.
Dark Money
A deep dive into the labyrinth of undisclosed, unlimited corporate spending gushing through nonprofit organizations in Big Sky country.
Cold War, Ash Is Purest White, and At War | Cannes 2018
Three films this year emphasized how much the last act of any film completes or diffuses everything that came before.
Sauvage | Cannes 2018
The almost clinical depiction of the hand-to-mouth life of a male sex worker.
Yomeddine | Cannes 2018
An accessible crowd-pleaser in the mode of early 1990s art-house hits.
Everybody Knows | Cannes 2018
Asghar Farhadi broke the Cannes opening night curse this year. There is nothing embarrassing about this selection.