A divorcing couple's son goes missing while they argue; Zvyagintsev's coldest film.
A blind boy home from school for the summer; Majidi's Iranian tearjerker.
A son fakes the survival of East Germany for his mother after her coma; the Berlin Wall comedy.
A couple and a hitchhiker on a sailboat for a weekend; Polanski's only Polish feature.
Four hours of Taipei teenagers in 1960 and a murder; Edward Yang's masterpiece.
Tarkovsky's own memories, his mother and a burning barn; the film with no plot people watch most.
A southern family moves to Milan and the brothers destroy each other; Visconti's epic.
A Seoul cabbie drives a German reporter into the Gwangju uprising of 1980.
Villagers play the British at cricket to escape a tax; three hours and forty-four minutes of it.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
A village woman raises her sons through famine and debt; the Indian epic of 1957.
A former bully seeks out the deaf girl he tormented; Kyoto Animation on guilt.
Tom Cruise back in the cockpit thirty-six years later, with real jets; the film that reopened cinemas.
A teacher, a student and a cook stuck at a boarding school over Christmas 1970; Paul Giamatti.
A man stops being his friend's friend on an Irish island in 1923, and starts cutting off fingers.
Greta Gerwig's Alcott, told in two timelines with Saoirse Ronan as Jo.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga; "Shallow" sung live for the first time.
Two cousins on a Holocaust tour of Poland; Kieran Culkin's Oscar.
Natalie Portman studies Julianne Moore for a film about her tabloid marriage; Todd Haynes.
Brad Pitt as a veteran driver back in Formula One, shot at real Grands Prix.
A woman remembers a Turkish holiday with her young father through camcorder footage; Charlotte Wells' debut.
Joaquin Phoenix dances down the Bronx stairs; a comic-book film that won the Golden Lion.
Zendaya between two tennis players over thirteen years; Guadagnino and a techno score.
A Navy SEAL platoon in Ramadi in 2006, reconstructed in real time from memory; Garland and Ray Mendoza.
Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles build the GT40 to beat Ferrari at Le Mans 1966.
Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect in postwar Pennsylvania, in VistaVision with an intermission.
Ethan Hawke as a pastor losing his faith over climate change; Schrader's Bresson film.
Two soldiers cross no man's land to stop an attack, in what looks like one continuous shot.
A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas; Youn Yuh-jung's Oscar as the grandmother.
Cate Blanchett as a conductor whose power comes apart in Berlin; Todd Field's return.
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