Film-Forward

DVD/Streaming/On Demand

Every Act of Life

A delightful recap of the career of one of the most prolific playwrights of our time, Terrence McNally.

Fail State

A serious, sober, and engrossing documentary about worthless degrees and backbreaking debt.

The Cakemaker

A complex story of love and mourning (with a lot of pastry porn, for those titillated by the film’s title).

The Other Side of the Wind

More than 40 years after it began production, Orson Welles’s last but longtime unfinished project has finally been completed and paid for by Netflix.

Mario

Using professional soccer as its setting, this German film asks the timely question of whether homosexuality can ever be accepted in professional sports.

Nigerian Prince

An atmospheric crime drama set in Lagos, Nigeria.

The Sentence

As a depiction of how a family overcomes a most unimaginable crisis, this documentary is triumphant. As a call for criminal justice reform, it is powerful and convincing.

Loving Pablo

A biopic about the infamous Colombian narcoterrorist and drug lord Pablo Escobar, with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz.

La Familia

One of the best Venezuelan movies of the last few years.