Directed by Lav Diaz • 2025 • Philippines, Spain, Portugal
Starring Gael García Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Amado Arjay Babon

A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Lav Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Disc...

Directed by André Bonzel • 2021 • France

An epic, lyrical ode to amateur filmmakers who raise the quotidian to the highest levels of art, FLICKERING GHOSTS OF LOVES GONE BY is a personal and historical exploration of the home movie in all its unvarnished glory. Upon inheriting an enormous collec...

COMING TO THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON 3/24 AT 8 P.M. ET

With his ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a...

Directed by Alex Ross Perry • 2025 • United States

Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies. With narration by Maya Hawke and footage culled from hundreds of sources—from TV commercials to blockbuster fi...

Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2025 • United States, Greece
Starring Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki

Part ghost story, part city symphony, this elegiac short directed by Charlie Kaufman traces the meeting of two recently deceased young people—a troubled photographer (Jessie Buckley) and a gay transla...

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Directed by Elizabeth Lo • 2024 • United States

In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession, a “mistress dispeller” who is hired to mai...

Directed by Neo Sora • 2024 • Japan, United States
Starring Hayato Kurihara, Yukito Hidaka, Yuta Hayashi

A heartfelt coming-of-age anthem and a mesmerizing vision of resistance, rebellion, and the irrepressible spirit of youth, the at once humorous and incisive feature debut from director Neo So...

Directed by Ira Sachs • 2025 • United States
Starring Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall

A loving snapshot of a vanished New York, Ira Sachs’s captivating cultural time capsule is a warm, witty, graceful re-creation of a real-life conversation that took place between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw...

Directed by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich • 2024 • United States
Starring Zita Hanrot, Motell Gyn Foster, Josué Gutierrez

A sumptuous, spellbinding anti-biopic as provocative and elusive as its subject, this hypnotic journey through the world of Caribbean surrealist writer and anticolonial activist Suz...

Directed by Mike Figgis • 2025 • United States
Starring Francis Ford Coppola, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver

A decades-in-the-making passion project financed by legendary director Francis Ford Coppola using $120 million of his own money, the audacious science-fiction epic MEGALOPOLIS stands as one of...

Directed by Nathan Silver • 2025 • United States
Starring Carol Kane, Joy Kane

Shot on wonderfully warm, light-filled 16 mm with the intimacy of a home movie, this vibrant documentary snapshot captures beloved actor Carol Kane (reuniting with BETWEEN THE TEMPLES director Nathan Silver) and her m...

Directed by Eva Aridjis Fuentes • 2025 • United States, Mexico

In the early 1990s, Diane Luckey—known by her stage name Q Lazzarus—seemed poised for stardom when her darkly ravishing synth-pop anthem “Goodbye Horses” was featured to unforgettable effect in the pop-culture sensation THE SILENCE O...

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • 2024 • Japan
Starring Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira

A gonzo revenge thriller, a darkly comic anticapitalist critique, and a dizzying plunge into the alienated abyss of the internet, CLOUD is among the most audacious genre experiments to date from ma...

Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing • 2024 • United States

Through intimate observation, UNION chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots labor-organizing campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island. Led by the c...

Directed by Jia Zhang-Ke • 2024 • China
Starring Zhao Tao, Li Zhubin, Pan Jianlin

In this visionary chronicle of China’s turbulent new century, acclaimed director Jia Zhang-Ke embarks on a kaleidoscopic odyssey across time and space, incorporating footage captured for his previous films into an ...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 2024 • France, Canada
Starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce

Long fascinated by the ways that technology is transforming our bodies and minds, David Cronenberg returns with one of his most profoundly personal films, an audacious, elegiac exploration of g...

Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2024 • France, Spain, Portugal
Starring Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay

A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Return...

Directed by Maura Delpero • 2024 • Italy, France, Belgium
Starring Giuseppe De Domenico, Tommaso Ragno, Martina Scrinzi

Secrets swirl beneath the surface of a remote Italian community in Maura Delpero’s exquisite wartime drama, winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. In a majestic...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2023 • Brazil

The latest from acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU, AQUARIUS) is a multidimensional journey across time, sound, architecture, and filmmaking that explores the rich, complicated history of the filmmaker’s home city of Reci...

Directed by Payal Kapadia • 2024 • France, India, Netherlands
Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam

Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed fiction-feature debut is a radiant ode to hope-giving connections forged amid big-city anonymity. Set against the hypnotic luminescence of Mumbai, ALL WE IMAG...

Directed by Wei Shujun • 2023 • China
Starring Zhu Yilong, Chloe Maayan, Hou Tianlai

When a woman’s body washes up on the shore in small-town China in the 1990s, the local chief of police, Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), is tasked with leading the investigation. An obvious suspect leads to a hasty arrest, ...

Directed by Ray Yeung • 2024 • Hong Kong
Starring Maggie Li Lin-lin, Patra Au Ga-man, Tai Bo

What happens to a lifetime of love when it collides with the harsh realities of a bureaucratic system that doesn’t recognize your relationship? That’s the question at the heart of this profoundly poignan...

Directed by Ethan Hawke • 2023 • United States
Starring Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger

Directed and cowritten by Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites viewers to weave in and out of the mind of the celebrated southern gothic writer Flannery O’Connor as she ponders the great questions of her wr...

Directed by Leos Carax • 2024 • France

French-cinema firebrand Leos Carax has spent forty years making galvanizing movies that float in the beautifully perplexing nether space between reality and artifice, from BOY MEETS GIRL and THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE to HOLY MOTORS and the recent musical ANN...