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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

A solid Coen brothers outing with some exceptional moments and their most mature 30 minutes yet.

Shoplifters

A moving drama focusing on characters living on society’s periphery and winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes.

Widows

A moody, fleet-footed story of four women out for revenge—and big money.

The Other Side of the Wind

More than 40 years after it began production, Orson Welles’s last but longtime unfinished project has finally been completed and paid for by Netflix.

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

Morgan Neville’s documentary acts as the perfect precursor to Orson Welles’s infamous, long in the making film, The Other Side of Wind.

A Bread Factory

This daring and thought-provoking comedy-drama centers on something decidedly unsexy yet vital: the act of community-building.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

A documentary that is an act of gratitude and a meditation on the Swedish director’s films.

Shirkers

In this sincere, engrossing documentary, director Sandi Tan looks back at a quirky indie film she helped make that captured a mostly bygone Singapore—and that suddenly vanished.

The Waldheim Waltz

How does a president who lies about his past, distorts his country’s history into victimhood, promotes nationalism, and inflames anti-Semitism win an election?