LET THEM EAT CAKE

Scrapbooking their climb to worldwide success, longtime collaborator Garth Jennings combs through the keepsakes of a one-of-a-kind band. Bursting with analog miscellany and electrifying live-show acts, Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? is a love letter in longhand to pop’s most enduring outsiders.

Jane Schoenbrun returns with a new kind of remake, carving up slasher conventions with surreal, campy abandon. Newly-minted scream queens Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson are a revelatory pairing, bringing wit, deep feeling, and sultry eroticism to this visionary dissection of movie nostalgia.

Jack Begert’s thrilling debut eyes the City of Angels through a prism of perspectives and coincidences. Scrappy, gritty, and darkly funny, Junk is a hallucinatory slacker odyssey about two generations caught between apathy, anxiety, and the search for meaning.

A heartfelt exploration of queerness wrapped in unexpectedly furry packaging, this beguiling metacinematic animation is a work of profound imagination and sincerity. Designing its chimerical world with stunning precision, Bouchra bridges the gap between the surreal and the hyperreal.

Framing the Brandenburg landscape with the delicacy of a miniaturist, Christian Petzold’s enigmatic autumnal drama shivers with seasonal moods of pensive disquietude. A bewitchingly mysterious Paula Beer teases riddles from the director’s signature understatement in their fourth collaboration.

Charging the pugilistic blows of the prison thriller with sociopolitical force, Wasteman drags its viewer into the chaos of Britain’s dysfunctional carceral system. Rising stars David Jonsson and Tom Blyth prove their mettle, delivering fierce one-twos in this brutal glimpse of life on the inside.

A withering indictment of American social values, written and directed by a man who has never set foot in America, Lars von Trier’s Dogville is an ambitious provocation. With an all-star cast led by Nicole Kidman, this epic Brechtian drama is a raw examination of small-town hypocrisy and prejudice.