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Love and obsession are two sides of the same coin in this daring thriller from The Bear writer-producer Alex Russell, featuring rising stars Archie Madekwe and Théodore Pellerin. In a glitzy LA ruled by social currency, Lurker luxuriates in the suspense and the dark irony of celebrity worship.

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor star in this nostalgic, aching romance, lifting a profound story of yearning in exquisitely tender performances. Interweaving timeless folk tunes with sumptuous, autumnal images, director Oliver Hermanus chronicles a love whose reverberations are felt for a lifetime.

With an artful eye and jazzy unpredictability, Kelly Reichardt unravels the threads of the heist film in this standout from Cannes. As an antihero kicking about on the brink of the ‘70s, Josh O’Connor is unmissable, lending rumpled discontent to this ironic, wry vision of American individualism.

Instincts both maternal and carnal clatter like shards of glass in a blender in this uncompromising portrait of a woman on the edge from director Lynne Ramsay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in a frenzied pas de deux, Die My Love inflames the exposed nerves of delirium and desire.

Channeling the androids of sci-fi cinema, the legendary Debbie Harry narrates this pulsing essay film about tech-neurotic expectations of virtual futures. Collaging from twentieth-century cult films and genre classics, Amanda Kramer pilots a cyber-kaleidoscopic ride through cinema’s electric dreams.

Eschewing explanation for rhythmic abstraction, this authentically mysterious documentary poses profound riddles about beauty, violence, and mortality. In the death-baiting, cherubically handsome bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey, acclaimed director Albert Serra finds a welter of enigmatic contradictions.