Film-Forward

Fashion docs tend to be fawning anyway, but this one has a subject worthy of fawning over.

With a main character spouting piss, spit, and vinegar, as well as raunchy talk, John Carney’s latest has an edge—and an R rating.

Ilker Catak’s pressure cooker drama has been chosen as Germany’s Best International Feature Oscar submission for 2023.

Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.

Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.

Based on a popular young adult novel, the adaptation is a sensitively drawn coming-of-age tale of friendship and a potential romantic relationship between two Mexican American teens in late 1980s El Paso.

Sebastián Silva’s meta-fiction is one of the funnier and adventurous comedies of the year so far.

In the week of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, director Maciek Hamela sits behind the steering wheel as a volunteer transporting displaced refugees fleeing the frontlines.

If Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 bestseller has been banned from your local library, Netflix has come to the rescue.