Film-Forward

Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.

Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.

Based on a popular young adult novel, the adaptation is a sensitively drawn coming-of-age tale of friendship and a potential romantic relationship between two Mexican American teens in late 1980s El Paso.

Sebastián Silva’s meta-fiction is one of the funnier and adventurous comedies of the year so far.

In the week of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, director Maciek Hamela sits behind the steering wheel as a volunteer transporting displaced refugees fleeing the frontlines.

If Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 bestseller has been banned from your local library, Netflix has come to the rescue.

Without a doubt, the 82-year-old Hayao Miyazaki pulls out all stops visually in perhaps his most beautiful movie.

The best way to enjoy this four-letter-word-filled frolic is probably to be inebriated. (This reviewer could have used a drink while watching it.)

The latest addition to the growing number of Brazilian films that offer pungent perspectives on the country’s rising Evangelical movement.