Film-Forward

This fierce, at times lacerating documentary chronicles the rise of the Los Angeles News Service, a renegade outfit that single-handedly changed the television news industry.

A well-acted but scattershot film that works better when it sticks to crime.

Women, armed only with cell phones, infiltrate a refugee camp in northern Syria to rescue other Yazidi women and girls held captive in this riveting documentary.

An uneasy new film that grapples with the darkness of growing up in a world distinguished by its overwhelming numbness.

In this part found-footage documentary and part YouTube react video, a filmmaker tests students to see if observing the same image produces similar emotions among viewers.

Emma Dante’s intense, punishing film follows five, then four siblings from a fateful childhood day through a harsh old age.

For those who have difficulty holding two or more contradictory ideas at the same time, your head is about to explode watching this labyrinthine documentary.

This solemn, powerful documentary reflects on the ramifications of the “ex-gay” movement, which continues on.

A bouillabaisse of a film that mixes, not always successfully, the suspenseful procedural investigation of director Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight with the touching redemption stories of his earlier movies.