Director Dina Amer’s incisive and unsettling debut explores how a young French-Moroccan woman ended up becoming radicalized.

A tightly structured, informative, and cinematic depiction of the most important trial in Argentinian history. It’s also among the best movies of the year

A film staged, shot, and scored as a ghost story infused by a gothic atmosphere. Joanna Hogg avoids obvious jump scares while sustaining an unsettling environment.

A mother, caught in a moral quandary, discovers that her prodigal son might not be the man she had believed him to be.

An essential documentary for anyone interested in learning about an ongoing revolution that actually succeeded.

This well-calibrated droll and dark satire has a life force that courses in serpentine ways that recall Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.

A return to form for Martin McDonagh, with this dark, macabre comedy. Though the story is gritty, grim, and grotesque, the location lends it an almost epic-like grandeur.

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.

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