Film-Forward

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

An animated adaptation of six Haruki Murakami short stories, featuring ghostly figures, anthropomorphic animals, and natural disasters.

Wild Life

An intimate documentary about entrepreneur and conservationist Douglas Tompkins’s life from directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo).

Suzume

Suzume, like many characters in children’s stories, is an orphan who one day discovers that there is much more to the world than she ever imagined.

Everything Went Fine

Director François Ozon pulls no punches chronicling the heart-wrenching attempts of two daughters to honor their elderly father’s directive: He wants to end his life on his own terms.

Mafia Mamma

The idea of behind this comedy feels a bit like a brisk and breezy throwback to something Goldie Hawn may have starred in the 1980s. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Sam Now

The director films his half-brother as they both set out to solve a family mystery that has affected so many in so many ways.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Activists head to West Texas, where they assemble to blow up a pipeline in the name of environmental justice.

Showing Up

The main character in Kelly Reichardt’s new, temperate film, could use a little oomph. Or, is that a little ooh la la?

Paint

Owen Wilson stars as a Bob Ross–inspired painter in this comedy, which is at its best when it embraces absurdity.