Film-Forward

The movie’s title kind of says it all. 

The well-paced thriller hums along at such a quick clip that it’s easy to hold reservations until after the credits have rolled.

Kate Dolan’s ability to create maximum tension with a minimal budget and scant practical effects marks her as a director to watch.

This cringey comedy may be the best unofficial sequel to the 2010 documentary Catfish. 

A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.

A frank and at times discomforting, in-depth portrait of young man who has cerebral palsy.

Radu Munteanu’s mordant comedy slides from a Romanian Green Acres to the grotesque.

Two Ukrainian films are reminders that the current situation in Eastern Europe isn’t unprecedented at all, but history sadly repeating itself.

Not an easy film to watch, this dark satire is challenging, violent, gruesome, and maybe even necessary.