Film-Forward

Satire

Assassination Nation

A dark, bloody, and raunchy comedy/thriller depicts how a quiet American town erupts in chaos after a data hack.

The Happytime Murders

A clever pastiche of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lethal Weapon,, and Basic Instinct, with a dash of neo-noir thrown in.

Sorry to Bother You

A playful—maybe to the point of self-indulgence—morality tale about the evils of selling out.

The Death of Stalin

Armando Iannucci has moved from farce to the blackest of comedies and succeeds brilliantly.

The Party

Hell is other people, and a hell of a lot of wicked fun.

The Teacher

Beware of comrade teacher, though she looks harmless enough with her kewpie-doll perm and brown button eyes. But there’s no confidence she won’t betray, no boundary she’ll respect.

I Am Not Madame Bovary

Lian (Chinese megastar Fan Bingbing) is a woman on a mission, but she’s neither Norma Rae nor Mother Courage.

The Love Witch

With every shot a saturated, gorgeous explosion of kitsch perfection, this elaborate send-up of 1960s and ’70s occult sexploitation films boils and toils over a bubblin’ cauldron of sheer spectacle.

The Lobster

Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s blackly comic satire—a discombobulating rush of inventiveness and imagination that doesn’t let up.