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With investigative zeal, VICE alumnus Eddie Huang dives into his former employer’s lawless archives to uncover where it all went wrong. Smoking out tales of legit highs and unholy lows, this gonzo documentary eyeballs the timely comeuppance of a pop-cultural behemoth that flew too close to the sun.

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.

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.

Knocking it straight out of the park in his first feature as writer-director, Carson Lund embraces baseball’s nostalgic pleasures to stage an American elegy. With an audio cameo from documentarian Frederick Wiseman, Eephus goes by that playbook, immersed intricately in a beloved national pastime.

In this twisted, hypnotic take on the coming-of-age drama, David Lynch finds voracious desires and feverish impulses lurking behind the white picket fences of the American dream. Beguiled by Isabella Rossellini’s tragic beauty, Kyle MacLachlan’s wide-eyed voyeur frees love from destructive passion.

A damning exposé of an unjust judicial system, Free Chol Soo Lee revisits a wrongful conviction thrust upon a Korean immigrant in 1970s San Francisco. Highlighting the radical power of community activism, this vital solidarity call also reveals the lifelong scars that incarceration leaves behind.

A knockout of a biopic, this sensational debut from acclaimed cinematographer Robert Kolodny (Pavements) inhabits the cinéma vérité style of 1960s documentaries. With stunning attention to period details, The Featherweight probes the public image and the private turmoil of a fading boxing star.