Film-Forward

Sirens

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

God’s Creatures

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

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

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

Last Flight Home

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

Piggy

A psychological horror film not for the faint of heart.

Stars at Noon | NYFF 2022

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

Triangle of Sadness | NYFF 2022

Five years after writer/director Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, he triumphed again with his latest darkly satiric romp.

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Ana Lily Amirpour has given us is a valentine to the downtrodden. It’s like a Tom Waits tune covered by Duran Duran, and a delight.

Taming the Garden

A disturbing documentary and cautionary tale about those with too much money.