New York Times Critic's Picks

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  • Scarlet

    Movie

    Directed by Pietro Marcello • Arthouse • 2023 • France, Italy • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliette Jouan, Raphaël Thiéry, Noémie Lvovsky

    Pietro Marcello follows his breakthrough "Martin Eden" with this enchanting period fable about a WWI veteran raising his daughter in rural France....

  • Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

    Movie

    Directed by Sophie Fiennes • Documentary • 2018 • UK, Ireland • English
    Featuring Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare

    Sophie Fiennes’s electrifying documentary is a journey through the public and private worlds of mega-icon Grace Jones that contrasts musical sequences with intimate perso...

  • Acasa, My Home

    Movie

    Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc • Documentary • 2020 • Romania, Germany • Romanian with English subtitles
    Featuring Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache

    Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with...

  • Fire at Sea

    Movie

    Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 2016 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Featuring Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Pietro Bartolo

    An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, "Fire at Sea" takes pla...

  • The Son of Joseph

    Movie

    Directed by Eugene Green • Arthouse • 2017 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
    Starring Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Regnier, Fabrizio Rongione

    The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugene Green exists in his own special artistic orbit and his film "The Son of Joseph" is perhaps his mo...

  • Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint

    Movie

    Directed by Halina Dyrschka • Documentary • 2019 • Germany • English, German, Swedish with English subtitles
    Featuring Johan af Klint, Julia Voss, Ulla af Klint

    The subject of a 2018 awe-inspiring retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term even ...

  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    Movie

    Directed by Ric Burns • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
    Featuring Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Atul Gawande

    A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis, esteemed neurologist Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by famil...

  • Studio 54

    Movie

    Directed by Matt Tyrnauer • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Ian Schrager Steve Rubell, Norma Kamali

    A haven of hedonism, glitz, and glamour, the infamous New York nightclub Studio 54 was the ultimate escapist fantasy until it imploded in financial scandal. With unprecedented access a...

  • A Touch of Sin

    Movie

    Directed by Jia Zhangke • Arthouse • 2013 • China • Mandarin with English subtitles
    Starring Tao Zhao, Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang

    Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke, this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four charact...

  • Born to Be

    Movie

    Directed by Tania Cypriano • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
    Featuring Jess Ting

    With extraordinary access, “Born to Be” offers an intimate look at the pioneering work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. There, for the first ...

  • Barbara

    Movie

    Directed by Christian Petzold • Arthouse • 2012 • Germany • German with English subtitles
    Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock

    Winner of two awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Christian Petzold's "Barbara" follows a young doctor, played by Nina Hoss ("Tar"), who has applied for an e...

  • The Super 8 Years

    Movie

    Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
    Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

    The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove ...

  • Tommaso

    Movie

    Directed by Abel Ferrara • Arthouse • 2020 • Italy, US • English, Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Willem Dafoe, Anna Ferrara, Cristina Chiriac

    Abel Ferrara’s delicately surrealistic work of autofiction reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who delivers a career-best p...

  • There Is No Evil

    Movie

    Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof • Arthouse • 2021 • Germany, Czech Republic, Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
    Starring Ehsan Mirhosseini, Shaghayegh Shoorian, Kaveh Ahangar

    Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner by Mohammad Rasoulof is an anthology...

  • What Will People Say

    Movie

    Directed by Iram Haq • Drama • 2018 • Norway, Sweden, Germany • Urdu, Norwegian with English subtitles
    Starring Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain, Rohit Saraf

    Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life. When out with her friends, she's a regular Norwegian teenager. At home with her family, she is the ...

  • Scrapper

    Movie

    Directed by Charlotte Regan • Arthouse • 2023 • UK • English
    Starring Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun

    Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, this vibrant father-daughter comedy follows a resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in a London flat until her estranged father ...

  • Tower

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    Directed by Keith Maitland • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
    Featuring Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, Megan Gilbride

    On August 1, 1966, a sniper from the top floor of the University of Texas Tower opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. Combining archival footage with rotosco...

  • Neptune Frost

    Movie

    Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman • Sci-Fi • 2021 • US, Rwanda • English, Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
    Starring Cheryl Isheja, Kaya Free, Eliane Umuhire

    In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime expl...

  • The Chambermaid

    Movie

    Directed by Lila Avilés • Drama • 2019 • Mexico • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sanchez

    In her feature debut, theater director Lila Avilés turns the monotonous work day of Eve, a chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film. Set ...

  • Trouble the Water

    Movie

    Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
    Featuring Brian Nobles, Wink Rivers, Kimberly Rivers Roberts

    Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. “Trouble the Water” takes you inside ...

  • Underground

    Movie

    Directed by Emir Kusturica • Arthouse • 1997 • Federal Republic of Yugosolavia • Serbian, German, French, Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic

    Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, "Underground" is a visionary masterpiece where hope, ...

  • Victoria

    Movie

    Directed by Sebastian Schipper • Arthouse • 2015 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
    Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski

    Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and shot in a single, uninterrupted take, “Victoria” stars a runaway party girl from Madrid...

  • Violette

    Movie

    Directed by Martin Provost • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet

    "Violette" is a finely nuanced portrait of Violette Leduc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. Superb performances by Emmanuelle D...

  • The Woman Who Left

    Movie

    Directed by Lav Diaz • Arthouse • 2017 • Philippines • Tagalog with English subtitles
    Starring Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa

    Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s epic story of revenge deferred functions as a tale of urb...