Film-Forward

Satire

Flux Gourmet

Saying that this is Peter Strickland’s most accessible film to date, which it is, in no way means that it is accessible.

Intregalde

Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Uppercase Print

Two more Radu Jude films torch Romanian ignorance, authoritarianism, and poltroonery. The borderline-bonkers Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn churns with incendiary ideas, while Uppercase Print condemns Ceausescu–era repression with clunky sincerity.

Bergman Island | New York Film Festival 2021

A creative couple explores artistry and love in this whimsical adventure and beguiling fantasy.

Dead Pigs

The nimble, sprawling, and biting debut by director Cathy Yan (Birds of Prey: Harley Quinn).

The Man Who Sold His Skin

Visually textured and richly shot, the dark satire has earned Tunisia’s first-ever Academy Award nod for International Feature Film.

The Twentieth Century

Writer-director Matthew Rankin’s first feature is a raunchy look back at Canadian history through a psychedelic and psychosexual lens.

Greed

The comedy’s appealing accessibility doesn’t overshadow the social concerns that propel it, or allow it to rise beyond expectations.

Jojo Rabbit

Director Taika Waititi manages to maneuver through slapstick, sentimentality, comedy, and searing drama with aplomb.