Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie presents a steely, persistent front that rarely cracks. Sam Riley matches her as her husband, the more affable Pierre.

Welcome to the world of Helmut Newton and his over-the-top tableaux that fuse hard-edged 1930’s black-and-white styling to images of leggy, breasty models in sadomasochistic action.

The debut by Colombian filmmaker Catalina Arroyave refreshingly has a female character at the heart of its crime story.

A quiet and devastating film that also manages to be suffused with humor and dark irony.

One part Black Mirror and one part dysfunctional relationship drama, before somehow ending like an ’80’s slasher movie.

Natalia Dyer captures the mannerisms, physicality, and inner life of a teenager so precisely and with such individuality that there is nothing paint-by-numbers about her performance.

Director Cara Jones comes to terms with being raised in the Unification Church in this intimate documentary.

If there is a release this year more inventive and phantasmagoric than this movie, one would be hard pressed to find it. It’s like Natural Born Killers on crack.

Fans of Flannery O’Connor’s work will reread her books with fresh eyes, while newcomers will be introduced to her wild, visionary imagination.