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Love Life

Director Koji Fukada offers a unique contribution to the melodrama genre: a film of unusual subtleties.

The Eternal Memory

A wife tries to keep her husband’s memory afloat in Maite Alberdi’s remarkable documentary.

Reveille

The fresh, honest, and intimate interactions are what makes this movie a cut above your average war film.

Talk to Me

As in most movies, dipping into the occult has dire ramifications in this raucous and unsettling debut feature.

Kokomo City

With authenticity and a dash of the irreverent, the documentary gathers testimonies from four Black trans sex workers from Atlanta and New York.

Return to Dust

The strength of this quiet film lies in its depiction of the love between its two principal characters.

Oppenheimer

At its best, Oppenheimer is downright surreal, not only in the flashes of images that may not be readily deciphered, but also how its director merges time lines together through incisive editing.

Afire

German director Christian Petzold adds a dash of dark farce into his new film and creates perhaps the most annoying character in a movie/TV show since Larry David.

Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One

The latest series entry kicks its globetrotting exploits into high gear and never stops, with fight scenes that are leaps and bounds over most of the competition.