This surprisingly conventional pseudo-biopic of German artist Gerhard Richter turns provocative art into middlebrow kitsch.
Midnight Family
Luke Lorentzen’s excellent observational documentary shines a light on the operators of a private ambulance in Mexico City.
The Children Act
A drama tracking the aftermath of a moral and legal crisis, The Children Act is clean, couth, and devastating, but only on cue.
People’s Republic of Desire
Hao Wu’s documentary looks at a group of people who make their living from a Chinese livestreaming platform.
Destroyer
The latest from Karyn Kusama is a brutal, hard film, never surrendering to a cathartic moment of softness we secretly crave.
The Green Fog
The Green Fog is a delirious homage to one of the most famous and most lauded films ever made: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
In Fabric
Peter Strickland’s hilarious fashion-centric horror-comedy is one of the most stylistically ambitious and genuinely overwhelming movies in recent memory.
Good Manners
The Brazilian drama from directors Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra works best as an engaging film about love and class, rather than the genre film it eventually becomes.
The Price of Everything
Nathaniel Kahn’s art-doc is fixated on finance but struggles to make any salient points about the development of value in art.
Tyrel
Sebastián Silva’s latest provocation is an exercise in alienation, following a ‘guys’ weekend’ charged with unsettling racial undertones.