Film-Forward

Martin Eden

The director has one ace in the hole: the lean, beguiling face of leading man Luca Marinelli.

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The courtroom drama is definitely enjoyable, a smooth ride filled with standout performances and snappy dialogue, but it is also somewhat one-dimensional and flat.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

In terms of surface-level crudeness, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm delivers some lighthearted laughs in a time when we need it most.

Synchronic

Paramedics and lifelong pals played by Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan notice a trend in several gruesome deaths: all are linked to a new legal designer drug.

White Noise

Racism rebranded through YouTube algorithms, podcasts, and stump speeches.

Midnight in Paris

Prom week 2012 at Michigan’s Flint Northern High School.

Hopper/Welles

An intense and—to a certain point—confrontational interview that works as an essential documentary about filmmaking.

Shithouse

One of the better and more convincing love stories to recently emerge that also succeeds where the majority of college-set films fail.

Belly of the Beast

An urgent wake-up call and yet another brutal reminder that we are not that far past the era of Jim Crow.