Film-Forward

A woozy road movie, a wistful sketch of an Italy fallen from grace, and a wry comedy.

What happens when you have three half-baked premises stacked together to form something only marginally coherent?

All three films offer rich explorations in under 100-minute runtimes and are highly recommended.

A quietly powerful debut feature, set in the American West in 2008, at the height of the financial and housing crisis.

If there was ever a rock star in classical music, it was Leonard Bernstein.

The occasionally stirring biopic of Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson.

The biopic offers a 1980s untainted, sanitized version of the singer that, in its own way, feels like a real-life version of Michael Jackson reaching Neverland.

The festival remains a reliable space for debuting and emerging filmmakers with singular talents willing to challenge themselves (and audiences) to expand the language of cinema.

Actor Jasper Billerbeck plays one of the most memorably multidimensional young wartime protagonists since The Tin Drum and Empire of the Sun.