Film-Forward

Because of its overwhelming visual and sensory labyrinth, Backrooms is a fortunate marriage of an attractive concept and compelling execution.

Four women directors deliver singular films—these works are eye-openers, and each brings a strong point of view.

The documentary profiling the woman who extracted damages from Donald Trump is inspiring and infuriating at the same time.

Its vivid sense of place is one of the film’s strengths.

You probably won’t lose your lunch watching Saccharine, but you might just get uncomfortable looking at your next meal.

Though Tuner doesn’t reinvent the wheel (or in this case, the piano), it makes the most of a very tight script with excellent performances, strong pacing, and a fun balance of genre tones.

It is satirical absurdism cranked up to at least 15, introducing more and more genre-bending gimmicks per scene yet never winking once as the ridiculousness piles up.

For a story that teases some metaphysical quandaries, it is doggedly earthbound.

Tangier Island, located in the Chesapeake Bay, has a population of about 400 people and is only two and a half miles long and roughly a mile wide. And it’s disappearing.