Film-Forward

Nicole Newnham’s deft and captivating documentary recounts the life of sex researcher Shere Hite.

Teen romance and the looming Holocaust make for bizarre bedfellows in actor Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut directorial feature.

A modest, occasionally moving coming-of-age tale of a transient gay relationship in 1999.

The biopic of Emily Brontë focuses on the years leading up to the publication of Wuthering Heights and her death.

Of the dozen or so narrative films seen at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this expansive and novelistic film from Pakistan takes the prize as the most illuminating.

Director Michelle Garza Cervera deftly examines motherhood and identity while creating a solid horror flick that is grounded and punctuated with moments of hallucinatory terror.

This year’s Israeli Oscar submission is directed in an effortlessly authentic faux-documentary style, so much so that it often feels like the real thing.

To Gaspar Noé’s credit, this edit does not feel more conventional than its predecessor. It is, however, revealing to watch, and not for reasons Noé intends.

Melancholy and tentative hope are stitched together in a bittersweet story of a Moroccan tailor shop and the three lonely yet interwoven souls within.