Film-Forward

American

Luce

A packed, well-oiled vicious circle that speaks volumes and takes no prisoners.

Skin

From the get-go, director Guy Nattiv’s visceral depiction of neo-Nazi Bryon Widner’s escape from his white supremacist surrogate family demands a reaction from the audience.

The Mountain

A deeply disturbing film with a cast firing on all cylinders.

Sword of Trust

The entire film hinges on Marc Maron, and he makes it worth seeing.

The Art of Self-Defense

A movie built around a critique of toxic masculinity so obvious it could have been written by an algorithm.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

The film takes enormous risks, not the least of which is its open and unabashed appeal to the heart.

The Tomorrow Man

John Lithgow plays a man who fears a nuclear doomsday and so maintains a state of the art food bunker.

Family

Taylor Schilling plays a career-obsessed woman with no personal life challenged with watching her awkward niece.

Wild Nights with Emily

Director and writer Madeleine Olnek has a hoot sending up and tearing down Emily Dickinson’s priggish image.