Film-Forward

Contact sport movies are a dime a dozen, but Christy Martin’s remarkable true story helps make David Michôd’s biopic a compelling watch.

Sometimes, the raw, loose emotions and dark humor of John Cassavetes’s movies seem to be in conversation with this film.

This gentle coming-of-age story visits the earliest years of a child’s life.

An Iraqi doctor seeking asylum in the United States faces multiple crises, including a kidnapping.

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has no interest in existing within the horror genre, but rather as an existential and exuberant drama elevated by impeccable production values.

This documentary is horrifying and heartbreaking, exposing the hideousness of a crime that robbed four children of their mother.

A largely straightforward thriller with only a few examples of Yorgos Lanthimos’s abstract weirdness.

The cinematic equivalent of a lice-ridden raccoon and a scaly iguana fed into a fast-action blender and force-fed warm to the viewer over 170 minutes.

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague won’t start any cinematic revolution, but it will defend the idea that making movies (and watching them) is an inspiring collective effort.