Films

Two soldiers fall in love amidst World War I in celebrated Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s (Close) latest work. Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne shared Best Actor at Cannes for this tender drama that mixes sensual sex scenes with stark combat sequences.

An unforgettable study of identity, family, and generational remorse, the stunning Fatherland traces the relationship between renowned writer Thomas Mann and his accomplished actress-writer daughter Erika amidst the ruins of postwar Germany.

Three eras, one buried story. La bola negra is a mesmerizing cinematic journey through love, memory, persecution, and the quiet wounds passed from one generation to the next, told with haunting beauty.

Andrew Haigh tells an intimate, tenderly heartbreaking tale of personal awakening and familial reckoning set in the gorgeously snow-clad Mountain West of the 1950s, starring Fred Hechinger in a stunning turn.

In AIDS-era New York, an artist throws himself into work, love, music, and desire, surrounded by people who challenge the boundaries of intimacy, loyalty, and the life he wants to live.

Mining the country’s past through a personal New York story of derailed ambitions, James Gray dismantles the notion of the American Dream with a harrowing, ‘80s-set crime-thriller. His finest film to date feels like a new classic.

Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly star as community leaders confronting wildfire and other threats in a small Western town in 1870. Dara Van Dusen’s feature debut is both familiar and eerily apocalyptic—a notable accomplishment.

Sandra Hüller delivers a performance of searing psychological intensity as a 17th-century war veteran who conceals many secrets in Markus Schleinzer’s stark, formally stunning drama.

Three eras, one buried story. La bola negra is a mesmerizing cinematic journey through love, memory, persecution, and the quiet wounds passed from one generation to the next, told with haunting beauty.

Mining the country’s past through a personal New York story of derailed ambitions, James Gray dismantles the notion of the American Dream with a harrowing, ‘80s-set crime-thriller. His finest film to date feels like a new classic.