In his graceful and disarming documentary, filmmaker Roger Ross Williams gets inside the head of Owen Suskind, an autistic young man who learned how to communicate by taking his social and language cues from classic Disney cartoons.

Director Anne Fontaine’s stirring drama takes religious faith as a starting point and looks at different approaches to compromised belief within a Polish abbey in the disastrous aftermath of World War II.

The most imaginative, subversive, and joyfully juvenile variation of a mid-2000s indie romcom imaginable.

A deft and subtle look at the world of a boxer, a woman, an African American woman, and an athlete.

This portmanteau of the 1960’s counterculture figure creates a portrait of a prickly, uncompromising man. It eschews the normal rock bio-doc format, and it’s all the better for it.

Yes, the “nuts” of the title is a double entendre, and what starts out as a movie that seems to be the quirky story of an intriguing, forgotten man turns into an exploration of the dangerous traps of the documentary format.

An addition to a new class of investigative documentaries focusing on the devastation that can result when those who have money at their disposal do whatever they want.

Director Lena Yadav has turned first-hand knowledge into an intriguing script that, combined with Russell Carpenter’s (Titanic) rich and varied cinematography, gives voice to women who have little or no say over their own lives.

Here, the acclaimed—and often maligned—director of Carrie, Dressed to Kill, and Scarface takes an honest, insightful, and often funny look at his path, a career that’s resulted in plenty of box office hits—but more than a few clunkers.