Stonewalling
A rare, unrestrained glimpse into life in contemporary China through the perspective of an ordinary 20-year-old college student.
Film-Forward
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
The documentary sheds light on how conservative forces have utilized insurgent leftism in ways that are quite unprecedented.
Return to Seoul
Identity and freedom are explored with rare power and style in Cambodian-French director Davy Chou’s engrossing character study.
Cinema Sabaya
This year's Israeli Oscar submission is directed in an effortlessly authentic faux-documentary style, so much so that it often feels like the real thing.
Cairo Conspiracy
An espionage film that dramatizes the epic struggle between politics and religion in the modern age.
Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Part nostalgia, part nerd hero worship, the engaging and entertaining Turn Every Page will delight fans of the written word.
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
How the concept of Black Power came from a specific time and place.
Bad Axe
Do we need another documentary covering the pandemic and the George Floyd protests? Yes, and it's one of the most surprising films of the year.