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Top Picks

Atlantics

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Mati Diop’s first feature is an exciting achievement.

Midnight Family

The intricacies, contradictions, and nightly dilemmas behind a private ambulance enterprise are the focus of this absorbing and gripping documentary.

63 Up

What stays the same in the latest installment is the sense of every life’s singularity and preciousness.

The Kingmaker

Imelda Marcos is charming, ever defiant, and not the least of all, boastful, or perhaps delusional. Her responses are pithy, quotable, and wholly narcissistic.

Marriage Story

Noah Baumbach digs deep to explore the facets of modern uncoupling.

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

As an introduction to the history and use of sound in film, this documentary is admirable, enjoyable, and hard to resist.

The Cave

In a war zone outside of Damascus, a hospital goes underground, setting up shop in a network of tunnels and a basement labyrinth.

Parasite

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

Pain and Glory

Pedro Almodóvar returns with a lovely, meandering, melancholy delight of a film.