Film-Forward

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The Contestant

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

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.

Society of the Snow

J.A. Bayona’s approach to the famous 1972 Andes plane crash is a classic Hollywood tug-on-the-heartstrings affair.

American Symphony

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman offers a window into the lives of Jon Batiste and his partner Suleika Jaouad at an incredibly fraught time.