Film-Forward

Otro Sol, The Rim, The Permanent Picture | New Directors/New Films 2024

Within the wide and varied films at the festival, many of the Hispanic cinema offerings stand out.

Wicked Little Letters

The novelty of a movie aimed at a typical anglophile audience with uptight British people swearing and reading vulgar words eventually wears thin.

On the Adamant

Last year’s Golden Bear winner is a documentary about a facility where the mentally ill can pursue a variety of artistic and artisanal activities.

Karaoke

A gregarious new neighbor upends the lives of two retired empty nesters.

La Chimera

Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film casts a beguiling spell, but like all altered states, it can also leave you disoriented.

Club Zero

Director Jessica Hausner’s baleful satire is animated by deadpan mockery of upper-middle-class Euro groupthink.

Much Ado About Dying

An accidental film that is moving, maddening, multifaceted in the questions it poses, and of significant depth.

Remembering Gene Wilder

What the documentary about the actor’s career gets right is Wilder’s love of life itself.

The Animal Kingdom

Contemporary France has been altered by a presumably global phenomenon in which mutants have been living among the population for some time.