Film-Forward

Prolific photographer Ernest Withers chronicled the civil rights movement. He was also a longtime FBI informant.

An elevated horror movie that’s also a burning romance, enhanced by the charisma and beauty of its stars.

A stimulating example of giving-it-all filmmaking for art’s sake that might not be perfect or cohesive, but it’s restless fun and uncompromising.

Meet Slave to Sirens, an all-female thrash metal band from Beirut, Lebanon,

A mother, caught in a moral quandary, discovers that her prodigal son might not be the man she had believed him to be.

It’s 1974 in the Philippines, and a Japanese lieutenant lives his life as though World War II is still raging.

Depicting the last days of her 92-year-old father, Ondi Timoner has a made a heartbreaking and profound documentary.

A psychological horror film not for the faint of heart.

Claire Denis’s latest is wobbly, sometimes mesmerizing, but meandering, though it features one of the year’s best musical scores.