Film-Forward

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

A Ugandan pop star turned politician takes on the country’s authoritarian president, the 76-year-old Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

The Beasts

A recently transplanted French couple’s life in a beautiful Galician village turns into a nightmare.

Talk to Me

As in most movies, dipping into the occult has dire ramifications in this raucous and unsettling debut feature.

Sympathy for the Devil

This crime thriller offers the kind of performance by Nicholas Cage you can never tear your eyes away from, even as he does things no regular human being—movie villains included—would do.

Kokomo City

With authenticity and a dash of the irreverent, the documentary gathers testimonies from four Black trans sex workers from Atlanta and New York.

Return to Dust

The strength of this quiet film lies in its depiction of the love between its two principal characters.

Oppenheimer

At its best, Oppenheimer is downright surreal, not only in the flashes of images that may not be readily deciphered, but also how its director merges time lines together through incisive editing.

Afire

German director Christian Petzold adds a dash of dark farce into his new film and creates perhaps the most annoying character in a movie/TV show since Larry David.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

An enlightening documentary about Syd Barrett’s life, death, and continuing legacy.