Film-Forward

An inside look at one of America’s most famous and valuable businesses, the Walt Disney Company.

The cozy medieval world (minus the smelly horse droppings and chicken dung) of Karen Cushman’s middle-grade novel has been re-created in this stylized–and deliberately anachronistic–adaptation.

After a novice nun leaves her convent, a police inspector attempts to piece together what happened to her and why in this absorbing Romanian drama.

A vivid time capsule of the late 1960s, when anything seemed possible.

A portrayal of working-class young people expressing themselves through hip-hop excels is in its naturalistic performances.

Laura Poitras’s documentary biography of photographer and activist Nan Goldin fluidly connects the past with the present, and is among the strongest films about the 1980s New York art scene.

The title of French director Sébastien Marnier’s thriller may sound more appropriate for the title of a sermon, but be not afraid. His film is instantly engaging, freewheeling, and playful,

Based on the 2012 novel by Bethan Roberts, the plot centers on an entangled trio: a young primary school teacher; her boyfriend, a young cop; and an erudite museum curator.

In this quiet psychological thriller set in rural Montana, Thandiwe Newton plays a college professor standing her ground against an entire community.