Film-Forward

Onlookers

Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.

Here

Film critics Pollyanna Positive and Negative Nancy took in Belgian director Bas Devos’s Here and came away with very different views of the movie.

The Monk and the Gun

A buoyant parable that manages to portray messy, complicated matters like democracy in a deft, light-to-the-touch, yet complex manner.

Perfect Days

The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.

Argylle

Argylle certainly has personality (and cats).

How to Have Sex

At first, the film conjures Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as it revels in the shallow inanity of carousing drunk teens. But wait for its second half.

The Promised Land

A cinematic soap opera of the highest order.

Tótem

A sometimes-chaotic family drama that takes the measure of facing terminal illness little by little, scene by scene.

Society of the Snow

J.A. Bayona’s approach to the famous 1972 Andes plane crash is a classic Hollywood tug-on-the-heartstrings affair.