James Sweeney's Twinless

Writer-director-actor James Sweeney’s Twinless is a beautifully written reflection on companionship, envy, loss, and forgiveness.

Jim Cummings' Thunder Road

Writer-director Jim Cummings so deftly balances the emotional with the downright silly, a thesis you’ll find immediately proven right even if you merely humor me and only watch the opening scene.

Michael Shanks' Together

Alison Brie and Dave Franco both turn in wry performances to bring to life writer-director Michael Shank’s script, an admirably simple-but-twisted parable about love and complacency and codependency.

Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme

The tale of Marty Mauser is at once a series of hysterical misadventures and a deeply affecting character study about greed, fame, dreams, and ambition.

Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love

Jennifer Lawrence puts up a career-best performance as Grace — a new mother whose relationship, sex life, and career as a writer are all crumbling underneath the weight of parenthood and a case of postpartum depression.

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

Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You

Michael Lukk Litwak's Molli and Max in the Future

Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship

James Griffiths' The Ballad of Wallis Island

Zach Cregger's Weapons

Mike Mills' C'mon C'mon

Emilie Blichfeldt's The Ugly Stepsister