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Top Picks

She Will

A thriller that starts off feeling like a classic gothic horror update and unexpectedly ends as a post-feminist revenge flick, with Alice Krige giving a master class performance.

Queen of Glory

In Nana Mensah’s winning and heartfelt debut film, you can go home again; part of you never left.

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

A music documentary that succeeds in being quite a few things at once: a biography/appreciation and an examination of a now ubiquitous song.

Lost Illusions

A lush yet propulsive story of a writer’s rise and fall in 19th-century Paris that moves fast and is loads of fun.

Revoir Paris (Paris Memories) | Cannes Film Festival 2022

It took 10 days to find this personal favorite at this year’s festival.

Decision to Leave | Cannes Film Festival 2022

The most entertaining and slick genre film at Cannes, and among the few in this year’s competition where a woman really held all the cards. 

Fogo-Fátuo (Will-o’-the-Whisp) | Cannes Film Festival 2022

The most audacious, funniest, and unpredictable work seen at this year’s festival.

Aftersun | Cannes Film Festival 2022

Director Charlotte Wells has struck gold with her young discovery, Frankie Corio, who delivered one of the best and most lived-in performances in the festival’s entire lineup.

Happening

Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.