Film-Forward

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

The boisterous Italian-American Balsano family gathers for what may be their final Christmas Eve dinner in the suburban ancestral home.

Meanwhile on Earth

Dan Levy’s overwhelming score is the movie’s best asset. If you close your eyes, you might imagine you’re experiencing a grounded, minimalist French answer to Interstellar.

Bird

A lyrical, bittersweet, and sometimes brutal flight of fancy set amid the overpasses and dingy council estates of lower-class Broken Britain.

Heretic

In an against-type performance, Hugh Grant is foreboding and unsettling as a disturbing villain.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

An allegorical family drama and a cat-and-mouse thriller by the exiled Mohammad Rasoulof.

Dusty & Stones

Two cousins/country artists from Swaziland land in America in this heartening documentary.

Here

Here marks a welcome return to form for Robert Zemeckis. He once again combines his mostly effective sentimentality with special effects wizardry.

Dahomey

What might appear to be a straightforward documentary about a recent political event is, in fact, a deeply poetic story.

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

A wondrous, if not heartbreaking, story about a life lived to the fullest in the most unorthodox way.