Zach Cregger's Barbarian

Zach Cregger's feature-length debut, Barbarian, is essential context in Cregger’s filmmaking journey, the place where he started honing his distinct blend of humor and existential fright, and his relentless quest to subvert viewer expectations.

Tom Gormican's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is victory lap for Cage, who spent such an inordinate amount time on the silver screen over the years and never overstayed his welcome with audiences. And his role in this film is exactly the kind of performance that’s made him so shelf stable in the first place.

Florian Zeller's The Father

Mental deterioration and aging and losing one’s mind is among life’s most great and mysterious tragedies, and, of course, there’s no greater testament to Florian Zeller’s filmmaking brilliance to make such a mystery so legible and penetrating for the rest of us in his feature debut, The Father.

Mimi Cave's Fresh

Mimi Cave's Fresh succeeds mostly due to its confident visual language (and dance numbers), and a very snappy script from Lauryn Kahn. Altogether, it is undeniably delectable.

Derek Cianfrance's Roofman

Mary Bronstein's If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Lee Isaac Chung's Minari

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice

Peter Farrelly's Ricky Stanicky

Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin

The Sundance Film Festival Edition.

James Sweeney's Twinless

Jim Cummings' Thunder Road

Michael Shanks' Together

Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme

Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love

Daniels' Swiss Army Man

Ari Aster's Eddington

David Moreau's MadS

Evan Morgan's The Kid Detective

Cameron & Colin Cairnes' Late Night with the Devil

Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia

Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven

Alister Grierson's Bloody Hell

Daniel Scheinert's The Death of Dick Long

Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another

Ant Timpson's Come to Daddy

Rich Peppiatt's Kneecap