Film-Forward

All to Play For, No Love Lost, Toni | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

Three films that are—coincidentally, but fortuitously—mature studies of single parents trying their best to raise children in often discordant circumstances.

Dune: Part Two

Grandiose and distinct, the world of Dune: Part Two feels alive and big.

Onlookers

Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.

Here

Film critics Pollyanna Positive and Negative Nancy took in Belgian director Bas Devos’s Here and came away with very different views of the movie.

The Monk and the Gun

A buoyant parable that manages to portray messy, complicated matters like democracy in a deft, light-to-the-touch, yet complex manner.

Perfect Days

The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.

Argylle

Argylle certainly has personality (and cats).

How to Have Sex

At first, the film conjures Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as it revels in the shallow inanity of carousing drunk teens. But wait for its second half.

The Promised Land

A cinematic soap opera of the highest order.