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Queendom

The life of Jenna Marvin, a queer performance artist from Russia, is captured in this bold and sobering documentary.

Hit Man

Richard Linklater’s latest is a lot of things at once, and each one of them is excellent.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.

The Contestant

The bizarre 1998 Japanese phenomenon that established the template for reality TV in the 21st century.

Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill

Why isn’t this singer-songwriter more well known today? This is the question the documentary sets out to answer.

Música

Perhaps one of the year’s most visually distinct films via its unorthodox approach to musical storytelling.

Yannick

Absurdist filmmaker Quentin Dupieux is back with a film he wrote in six days and filmed in secret.

Club Zero

Director Jessica Hausner’s baleful satire is animated by deadpan mockery of upper-middle-class Euro groupthink.

Space: The Longest Goodbye

An informative and moving documentary that delves into the many difficulties of spending a long time in outer space.