Film-Forward

A documentary that plunges into a craft that is experiencing a surprising revival in the 21st century.

Methodically and steadily, writer-director François Ozon builds an efficient and damning case.

A master class that brings valuable insights to a significant career, more than six decades after it began.

Céline Sciamma turns to period drama with this elegant meditation on female desire that flips the script on the male gaze.

Albert Serra’s film has a strange, almost hypnotic pull, while turning its watchers into complicit voyeurs.

The year’s Palme d’Or winner is full of dark humor, surreal twists, and genuinely jaw-dropping sequences.

Unlike its lead assassin, the action movie misses all its targets.

A documentary that makes a convincing argument that art has the capacity to change the world for the better.

For New Yorkers attending the NYFF, it’s almost like going to the Cannes Film Festival, but without the jetlag, the exchange rate, and the overpriced accommodations.