Film-Forward

Is it the end of the world as we know it?

Three hidden gems and undistributed films that deserve attention.

There could possibly be no more fitting option to end the 63rd New York Film Festival than with the selection of a New York–set romantic comedy with gravitas.

A bold and remarkably assured feature directorial debut plays out mostly like a fizzy—albeit sexually explicit—romantic comedy, with deep dramatic undertones.

Another in Kelly Reichardt’s canon of deceptively modest stories of ordinary people set within a specific place and time.

Director Park Chan-wook takes as his blueprint Donald E Westlake’s lean and mean bloodbath The Ax (1997) and makes the macabre and cynical tale his own.

This is not easy viewing, but it is informative, impressive, and horrifying.

A bruising portrait of a man living on the margins of society.

The standouts here are its neon-lit fights, digital worlds, and the moody score by Nine Inch Nails.