By Skye Kuppig

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance

Vesela Kazakova

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze

Céline Sciamma

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

The War Room | A testimony of Direct Cinema’s last days

D.A. Pennebaker

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues

George C. Wolfe

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | A search for acceptance

Karen Bernstein

Primary | An intimate portrait of J.F.K.

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