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Last Summer

A tense, gripping story of an ultra-dangerous liaison, Catherine Breillat’s latest film makes every scene count and keeps you hooked.

Kinds of Kindness

A macabre triptych in the style of director Yorgos Lanthimos’s earlier work.

Green Border

A border crisis is the subject of Agnieszka Holland’s incendiary new film, which forcefully wears its anger on its sleeve.

Tiger Stripes

This allegory takes some of the worst experiences of puberty to become, at times, a genuinely bewildering horror movie.

Ghostlight

A small and subtle triumph of acting. The characters are all drawn with empathy and are often surprising.

Robot Dreams

Director Pablo Berger has crafted a fantastical tale of great visual (and sonic) inventiveness that is as gorgeous to look at as it is emotionally bittersweet.

Hit Man

Richard Linklater’s latest is a lot of things at once, and each one of them is excellent.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

The documentary doesn’t shy away from Lynes’s sublime nude photography, rather it ravishes in it, as if to visually reclaim a suppressed history.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The set pieces, performances, and visuals are here to remind you that director George Miller exists in an action movie class of his own.