Fancy Dance is quiet in its depiction of love and family, but steadfast in its belief of the power of both.

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is a high-concept, humorous look at the miracles that exist in life and death, and an urgent attempt to have its audience embrace the present moment and everything that it is.

Hummingbirds is vibrant and hopeful for the future, in spite of the past.

The Bikeriders is Easy Rider by way of Goodfellas. It’s a crime drama mixed with a period piece of a time not too unlike our own.

Queen of the Deuce is not your average Holocaust story. In fact, it’s not an average story in any regard. It’s the sort of mind-boggling series of events that, had it been written as a book or a movie, would’ve been called too outrageous to believe. Yet the story of Chelly Wilson is true.

My Best Friend is a gorgeously executed examination of intimacy.

Brooklyn 45 feels like it was conceptualized to be a Twilight Zone episode with just a little more blood and gore.

Ripe! has created a candy wonderland of young love. The 1950s music, the haziness of the film’s grain, and the rich hues all recreate the feelings of that first all-consuming crush.

It is moving to see generations of people band together for love, and Standing Above the Clouds shows the often traumatic experience of preserving one’s heritage.

A deeply human piece wrapped in the skin of a thriller, New Life will stick with you for years to come.

Slow is an ode to the connections we form with other people, no matter how fleeting or eternal they may be.

The Sales Girl isn’t interested in the actual act of sex, but in what the exploration of it can be.

Furiosa promised to build a richer world for a character who stole the show in Fury Road, but the world we were given is just as empty as the Wasteland.

Tell That to the Winter Sea is about the pain and beauty of knowing a person. Understanding that by weaving your life with someone else’s, you open yourself up to loss, and yet, you do so knowing the risks.

There isn’t a documentary like A Thousand Pines that shows the realities of the lives of these workers, and the message is as urgent as ever.

In My Own Normal, Alexander has opened the door to his home, his love life, and his family dynamic in an attempt to encourage more people to understand a life that doesn’t necessarily look like their own. Or, equally importantly, to show others with cerebral palsy what their life could look like. 

Silent Land is a critique of class structures, but never manages to reach the depth of the pool that haunts the characters of the film.

Night Shift is a cozy horror flick, one that feels familiar, but it also works as a show of skill for first-time directors, the China Brothers. 

Even though it might not fully come together for all, it’s undeniable that it’s thrilling to see I Saw the TV Glow’s trans-centric storyline on movie theater screens across the country. 

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a behemoth blockbuster that’s perfect for summertime, even if it succumbs to some of the familiar shortcomings of the genre.