Writers Ben Collins and Luke Pietrowski have a preternatural sense of the teen mind and a way with dialogue.

A thoughtful meditation on how an individual’s inner and outer selves can differ profoundly.

A beautiful, deeply empathetic, world-embracing lip smack of an animated film.

For this ambitious blend of documentary and fictional filmmaking, Christopher Doyle spent a year interviewing real-life residents of Hong Kong. The result is a free-flowing, often unpredictable portrait.

Beware of comrade teacher, though she looks harmless enough with her kewpie-doll perm and brown button eyes. But there’s no confidence she won’t betray, no boundary she’ll respect.

Geremy Jasper’s debut film maintains a constant level of humor and dares to be unabashedly sentimental.

Think of Ingrid Goes West as a Black Mirror episode, only it’s more science-reality than science fiction.

A worthy heir to the gritty 1970s New York films of Martin Scorsese. What Mean Streets and Taxi Driver did for 1970s Manhattan, Good Time does for Queens of the 2010s.

An unusually and outstandingly filmed documentary.