Film-Forward

Documentary

This Is Home: A Refugee Story

The documentary, an audience award winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, follows four Syrian refugee families relocating and adapting to Baltimore.

RBG

Whether she’s bubbe or the Notorious RBG, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an inspiration

Love, Cecil

Polite and punch-pulling as it is, Love, Cecil can’t help but leave you admiring Cecil Beaton’s drive and output.

This Is Congo

A catch-up exposé on what’s been going on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the past 20 years, and the catch-up is horrifying indeed.

The King

Actor Ethan Hawke offers the shrewdest analysis in this documentary essay on Elvis Presley and the American Dream.

Straight into a Storm

A celebration of a decade of the music of Deer Tick and a love letter to its lead singer, John McCauley.

Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist

The former punk hell-raiser is now Dame Vivienne Westwood, if you please.

Saving Brinton

An Iowa farmer almost miraculously saves a large chunk of silent film history.

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

A portrait of an artist and a look at a time when punk, graffiti, and hip-hop flourished and overlapped in a decaying city.