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Top Picks

Voyeur

This sly, labyrinthine film is the definition of docudrama.

Call Me by Your Name

A movie that is already being listed among the great queer films of recent memory.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

A biopic with nuance and epic scope, this splendid documentary vindicates the legacy of a brilliant woman with a fascinating life.

Mudbound

A fresh take on the old-fashioned, socially conscious, epic melodrama.

Strong Island

Only a handful of autobiographical films are as powerful as Strong Island.

1945

The black-and-white film follows the contortions that ensue when Hungarian villagers get wind that the Jewish neighbors they betrayed during the war are headed back to town.

The Square

Swedish writer-director Ruben Ostlund creates an ingenious high-wire act putting bourgeois beliefs and interpersonal trust to the test.

78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene

Behind the scenes of a particular sequence in Psycho: three minutes that took seven days to shoot and resulted in 78 shots with 52 cuts.

God’s Own Country

The first feature film by writer-director Francis Lee doesn’t go down the route you would expect it to.