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The Return

Uberto Pasolini’s retelling of The Odyssey rewards viewers with profound psychological depth and the electrifying chemistry of Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

About one of the most important photographers many have never heard of.

Flow

With its animal-centric narrative, this animated film achieves something profoundly human.

All We Imagine as Light

An entrancing depiction of life in contemporary Mumbai.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

An allegorical family drama and a cat-and-mouse thriller by the exiled Mohammad Rasoulof.

Dusty & Stones

Two cousins/country artists from Swaziland land in America in this heartening documentary.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

When, during the Cold War, the U.S. State Department recruited jazz luminaries as de facto ambassadors for democracy.

Sleep

A newlywed and father-to-be acts out while sleepwalking and does not remember his actions when he awakens—and these actions are pretty terrifying.

Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola has one eye on the past and another on the future, blending old-school Hollywood epics with bombastic 21st-century hyperrealism.