Gaspar Noé’s Tokyo-set audio-visual experience is stunning and scandalous—a hallucinatory techno trip exemplar of Noé’s brand of divisive filmmaking. An intoxicating first-person crawl through the city by night, Enter the Void is sensational cinema at its most phenomenal and visceral.

An astonishingly singular feat of sensorial cinema, Andrea Arnold’s first foray into nonfiction filmmaking finds yet another indelible heroine in Luma, a dairy cow. Resounding with transformative empathy for the inner lives of animals, this powerful documentary wears its loving heart on its sleeve.

Plunging into the viscera of human bodies, the directorial duo behind Leviathan open up glistening worlds of ecstatic abstraction. Never shrinking from grit or guts, this fascinating documentary surfaces in underfunded Parisian hospitals, where doctors inject a good dose of humor into disrepair.