Film-Forward

An elevated horror movie that’s also a burning romance, enhanced by the charisma and beauty of its stars.

A stimulating example of giving-it-all filmmaking for art’s sake that might not be perfect or cohesive, but it’s restless fun and uncompromising.

Meet Slave to Sirens, an all-female thrash metal band from Beirut, Lebanon,

A mother, caught in a moral quandary, discovers that her prodigal son might not be the man she had believed him to be.

It’s 1974 in the Philippines, and a Japanese lieutenant lives his life as though World War II is still raging.

Depicting the last days of her 92-year-old father, Ondi Timoner has a made a heartbreaking and profound documentary.

A psychological horror film not for the faint of heart.

Claire Denis’s latest is wobbly, sometimes mesmerizing, but meandering, though it features one of the year’s best musical scores.

Five years after writer/director Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, he triumphed again with his latest darkly satiric romp.