Film-Forward

Although the year ended on a subdued note after many of the high profile, highly touted fall releases failed to click with audiences, here’s to 2022’s bright spots.

An affecting and occasionally bracing documentary that plunders the complicated relationships and parallels between human and animal.

In terms of scope, graphics, and tangible worldbuilding, the sequel is a jaw-dropping achievement, to say the least.

Now streaming, three real-life stories of resistance and repression. In each, the emphasis is on hope.

Beautiful, self-critical, vulnerable, and above all impeccable in its craftmanship, Bardo is a statement of cinema as a form of therapy, exorcism, death, and resurrection.

A classic story told with a fresh coat of paint, and a passion project that pays off in full.

Darren Aronofsky’s workmanlike approach to an Off-Broadway play recalls many 1950s film adaptations of Broadway hits.

Understated and deceptively breezy, Mia Hansen-Løve’s new film accumulates nuanced moments that add up to a subtly powerful, satisfying work.

Both The Fabelmans and Last Film Show pose the mystery of why some become so enamored with movies and filmmaking.