Jonathan Romney

End of the line: the endangered preppies of Whit Stillman’s mature debut remain amusing emblems of youth preserved

Nadav Lapid's enigmatic, unsettling tale of a precocious student and his teacher confronts the nature of art and hints at Israeli society's tensions

Ways of seeing: Joshua Oppenheimer revisits the Indonesian genocide through the eyes of a victim's brother with a piercing calm

Night shifts: the third entry in Pedro Costa's Fontainhas series sends his characters into the darkness amidst memories of colonialism, revolution, and bureaucracy

Streetwise: Sean Baker’s day-in-the-life look at two transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles taps into the headlong energy of its characters

Witnesses to the persecution: Asif Kapadia's wrenching found-footage chronicle of Amy Winehouse's rise and fall inventories the gawkers and vultures around her

(Woody Allen, U.S., 2015)

Play's the thing: Matías Piñeiro's new Shakespearean feature stages an intricate romantic dance that exults in language and the enigma of attraction

As time goes by: Mia Hansen-Løve's entrancing chronicle of a French dance-music scene skips through the years to find the mood of a moment

It’s not what you think: Alfonso Gomes-Rejon’s story of male-female friendship is sweetly but sharply rendered, neither twee nor cheap weepie

Behold! Roy Andersson's latest mordant pastiche of the human condition

John Maclean's dust-free Western is powered by non-sequiturs and a dryly comic sensibility

Quentin Dupieux's self-conscious comedy plunges into the guts of the Hollywood dream factory

I'm the stranger: David Oelhoffen’s expanded adaptation of a short story by Camus ends up being a little too self-conscious

A woman for all seasons: Albert Maysles's final documentary knits together colorful swatches from a New York fashion maven's life

Something in the air: Pascale Ogier shines in Rohmer's tragicomic, pitch-perfect evocation of Eighties Paris

Side streets: Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature of disaffected, motorcycle-riding Tapei youth finally gets its U.S. theatrical run

How old are you now? Noah Baumbach grapples with ageing gracelessly and questions of authenticity—both documentary and personal

Who's with me? Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja and the Zellner Brothers' Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter chart hypnotic journeys to new worlds

Invisible touch: David Robert Mitchell’s idiosyncratic suburban horror links sex and death through an ingenious, implacable force that will stop at nothing