Film-Forward

Foreign

Peter Von Kant

François Ozon’s film feels like a lighter version of its source material, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, less Jean Genet and more Noël Coward.

My Donkey, My Lover, & I

A fizzy, feel-good comedy that believes in the goodness of the human heart, even if the brain attached is a little flighty.

Both Sides of the Blade

A moody movie for fans of Claire Denis’s more recent work, character studies with dense emotions to unpack.

Olga

A competitive Ukrainian gymnast faces a painful choice: potential gold medals or her identity as a Ukrainian.

Brian and Charles

An odd, very dry British comedy, takes a while to rev up.

A Chiara

Calabrian life, as depicted here, moves in step with corruption that can be either purposefully pursued or casually accepted, but is always expected.

Happening

Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.

Anaïs in Love

Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.

Paris, 13th District

Director Jacques Audiard goes lighter this time around with a study of reckless and sometimes feckless youth.