Film-Forward

A film staged, shot, and scored as a ghost story infused by a gothic atmosphere. Joanna Hogg avoids obvious jump scares while sustaining an unsettling environment.

This restrained biopic is one of the most thoughtful to come out of Hollywood in recent years.

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.