Film-Forward

A British period drama that subverts the polite conventions of the genre with its frank depiction of sex.

The movie’s title kind of says it all. 

The well-paced thriller hums along at such a quick clip that it’s easy to hold reservations until after the credits have rolled.

Kate Dolan’s ability to create maximum tension with a minimal budget and scant practical effects marks her as a director to watch.

This cringey comedy may be the best unofficial sequel to the 2010 documentary Catfish. 

A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.

A frank and at times discomforting, in-depth portrait of young man who has cerebral palsy.

Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.

Two Ukrainian films are reminders that the current situation in Eastern Europe isn’t unprecedented at all, but history sadly repeating itself.