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Sister Aimee

A whimsical road movie with runaway evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the 1920s holy roller.

Loro

A meditation on the outrageous story of Silvio Berlusconi, the wily one-time cruise ship crooner who rose to the center of Italian life and reigned for decades.

The Distant Barking of Dogs

A powerful vérité documentary, set in a Ukrainian town distressingly close to the war front with Russia.

The Great Hack

How social media became—and continues to be—weaponized.

Sword of Trust

The entire film hinges on Marc Maron, and he makes it worth seeing.

The Art of Self-Defense

A movie built around a critique of toxic masculinity so obvious it could have been written by an algorithm.

Maiden

This exciting documentary captures the white-knuckle thrills of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.

High Life

In French director Claire Denis’s first film set in the future and on a space ship, human relationships are still central.

Shoah: Four Sisters

A timely response to the persistence of Holocaust denial and the Polish government’s attempt to make it illegal to accuse that nation of complicity.