Ho Wi Ding’s provocative Taiwanese drama about loneliness and voyeurism clarifies its themes and narrative in startling fashion.
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Despite its ridiculous title, Edwin’s Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is more sedate arthouse picture than martial arts extravaganza.
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Nanfu Wang’s documentary is a useful primer on the early days of the COVID-19 crisis.
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John Daschbach’s documentary about Masamoto Ueda and his ramen restaurant, Bizentei, is a gentle portrait of community.
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This documentary by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei paints a portrait of contemporary China through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
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Smog Town is an illuminating look behind the curtain of Chinese bureaucracy, but would be more effective if it were more compact.
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The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel shows how the rise of corporate responsibility and weakened political structures have deepened the entwining of our fates with those of the corporation, as both an economic and political agent in the last two decades.
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The Last Ice is a useful primer for anyone wanting to understand the issues at stake in the Arctic.
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WWII horror thriller set on a B-17 Flying Fortress ultimately crash lands.
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A fascinating, disorienting first-hand account of the Wuhan COVID-19 lockdown.
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A beautifully animated adventure film that mines the many tensions between England and Ireland.
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Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer examine the scientific and spiritual meaning of meteorites in this joyful documentary.
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An incredibly relevant doc about the Hong Kong protests.
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This essayistic documentary explores the city of New York in the month of August 2017 and the hopes and fears of the people in it.
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A quietly critical documentary exploring the spectacle around Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino who died in 2018.
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Earth is visually arresting, but also repetitive, which dulls its overall message.
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The Safdie Brothers continue to mine chaos and momentum in the riveting Uncut Gems.
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Terrence Malick has crafted his most political and religious work yet.
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One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a rewarding film and a microcosm of Inuit-settler relations.
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Makoto Shinkai’s follow-up to Your Name is a similarly high-concept exercise in empathy.
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