Film-Forward

Crime

Lizzie

Part feminist revenge tale, part psychological family drama, and part unlikely love story.

Before the Frost | TIFF 2018

A discovery at the Toronto International Film Festival: a noirish crime drama set in 19th-century rural Denmark.

Museo

An implausible, real-life museum heist becomes perfect movie material for director Alonso Ruizpalacios.

The Third Murder

A handsomely made, well-acted entry in the legal procedural genre, which, despite its references to Japanese criminal law, should be accessible to most viewers.

American Animals

Based on a real-life incident, young upper-middle-class men turn to crime as a cure for boredom, and now they are the subject of a film that is anything but boring.

Gemini

Everything about Gemini is cool, from its steely blue, neon color palette to the jazzy-noir-synth-pop soundtrack.

The Nile Hilton Incident

Casablanca stands in for Cairo—and makes a compelling star. The story takes place in the days leading up to the Arab Spring in January 2011, and the city throbs with discontent.

Good Time

A worthy heir to the gritty 1970s New York films of Martin Scorsese. What Mean Streets and Taxi Driver did for 1970s Manhattan, Good Time does for Queens of the 2010s.

Old Stone

A tightly wound gem of a movie that wastes none of its brisk 80 minutes.