The most frightening prop in Sam Benstead’s documentary is a wall decorated to deceive a murderer. Annsar Shahoud, an Amsterdam-based...

A secret romance needs shadows, and this one keeps switching the overhead lights on. That is the first structural problem...

High school comedy has always carried a faint odor of imprisonment. Lockers, bells, cafeteria hierarchies, gym floors polished to a...

Alex Vlack’s The Revisionist treats literature like evidence left under poor lighting. A confession here, a family anecdote there, a...

Agent Zero is a lean French spy-action thriller with revenge in its bloodstream and institutional rot in its bones. Guillaume...

Lucy Schulman is a modest New York dramedy about a woman who mistakes attachment for direction, then has to live...

Birds of War turns the private archive into a battleground of feeling, memory, and moral exposure. Built from war footage,...

Izabel Pakzad’s Find Your Friends plants a psychological thriller inside a bender and lets the fumes do much of the...

Seekers of Infinite Love treats family as a room with no exits, then puts that room on wheels. Victoria Strouse’s...

Crash Land has the posture of a prank and the pulse of an elegy. Dempsey Bryk’s feature directorial debut plants...