From the New Issue

Death becomes a creative force in three Sundance films that dance at its edge

As films and film culture face brutal and witless change, love of the art form can be radical and sustaining

In Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, friendship meets commerce in a poignant portrait of two outsiders on the newly settled American frontier

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Brazilian epic Bacurau sets the world on fire with an invigorating and audacious story of resistance that feeds off of pulp and politics

Pedro Costa returns with the masterful Vitalina Varela—quite possibly the most beautiful film of 2020

Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world

Pedro Almodóvar taps into both the anguish and the eroticism of memory in Pain and Glory, his most personal film yet

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood yearns for the liberating powers of storytelling and finds flickers of life in painted sunsets and broken dreams

David Essex’s sly, self-aware performance in That’ll Be The Day goes well beyond the usual dictates of a star vehicle

Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling