Film-Forward

Superboys of Malegaon | TIFF 2024

A crowd-pleasing addition to the subgenre of movies about movies.

Saba | TIFF 2024

The emotionally charged Bangladeshi mother-daughter drama marks the strong debut of director Maksud Hossain.

The Outrun

Saoirse Ronan gives a raw and committed performance as a young alcoholic struggling in her recovery on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands.

Daaaaaalí!

If there was ever a current director working today who should be making a film about artist Salvador Dalí, it is French writer/director Quentin Dupieux.

Joker: Folie à Deux

Just for its musical aspects, and the exquisite staging in which they are choreographed and intelligently conceived , the sequel is a bold artistic success.

The Brutalist | NYFF 2024

Simultaneously vital and sepulchral, The Brutalist is monumental—grand, bold, and ambitious.

Lee

Kate Winslet mixes idealism, will, and crankiness in a high-level star turn that helps this biopic navigate some uneven ground.

Sleep

A newlywed and father-to-be acts out while sleepwalking and does not remember his actions when he awakens—and these actions are pretty terrifying.

Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola has one eye on the past and another on the future, blending old-school Hollywood epics with bombastic 21st-century hyperrealism.