Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s harrowing wartime drama is hampered by an inscrutable lack of context and a refusal to reckon with the Iraq War’s lasting consequences.

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley bring their A-game to Coralie Fargeat’s visionary new entry to the body-horror canon.

Writer-director Damian Mc Carthy’s second feature film is an intricately-crafted, genre-hopping cabinet of horrific curiosities.

The Canadian body-horror maestro returns with a perplexing autobiographical thanatopsis that loses sight of itself within its own half-baked subplots.

Magnus von Horn’s Cannes competition debut is a slightly muddled but nonetheless thought-provoking and pertinent arthouse horror hybrid.

Headed by a revelatory Lars Eidinger, Matthias Glasner’s autopsy of the nuclear family project handles its existentially weighty themes with equal pathos and panache.

A vibrant, fascinating, and heartfelt look at the human drive to form communities — virtual or otherwise — in times of strife.

Manuela Martelli draws on the fraught history of her family and home country to weave a haunting tale of life during civil wartime.

As thoughtful and intricate as it is visceral, Michelle Garza Cervera’s debut horror feature makes a scream queen out of rising star Natalia Solián.

Adam Koloman Rybanský and his friends aim for the stars with their debut full-length dramedy, but get lost somewhere in the clouds (and the chemtrails) instead.

Colombia’s official Oscars entry for 2023 is a haunting, phantasmagoric reinvention of the Monomyth that should not be overlooked.

Daniel Goldhaber’s second feature film pulls out all the stops as a defiant, sure-footed eco-terrorism thriller.

Vicky Krieps gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as an empress out of time in Marie Kreutzer’s feminist fable for the ages.

Alex Thompson’s disappointing second feature wastes a novel premise on substandard execution marred by indecision.

Catalan auteur Albert Serra returns with another intricately-crafted atmospheric drama in which answers are ever out of reach.

“The Blue Caftan” establishes Maryam Touzani as both a vital contributor to new queer cinema and one of international film’s most capable rising auteurs.

Breakout star Park Ji-min electrifies Davy Chou’s much-needed exploration of what it means to truly “belong.”

Alex Phillips’s directorial horror-comedy debut positions him as the poor man’s David Cronenberg… but the poor man already has David Cronenberg.

From one of Turkey’s foremost directors and political historians comes a gripping, incisive study of how power turns men into monsters.

David Dawson and Emma Corrin elevate Michael Grandage’s misguided Harry Styles hype vehicle just past mediocrity.