Film-Forward

Satire

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.

Greener Grass

Suburban soccer moms engage in a passive-aggressive competition, with their husbands and sons as unknowing victims.

Parasite

The year’s Palme d’Or winner is full of dark humor, surreal twists, and genuinely jaw-dropping sequences.

Corporate Animals

The satire includes a host of first-rate comic actors, but no one really gets a handle on the material.