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Iconic auteur Jim Jarmusch’s acclaimed return to anthology filmmaking abounds with wryly resonant observations on the family unit. Sketching finely detailed portraits with its starry ensemble cast (including a gloriously rumpled Tom Waits), this offbeat triptych finds universals in idiosyncrasies.

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.

Love drives people nuts in Norman Jewison’s deliciously farcical comedy, which tears into absurd social mores with glee. Cher won the Oscar® for her warm performance as a woman swept off her feet by Nicolas Cage’s wolfish lover, their offbeat romance glinting in the romantic New York City moonlight.

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.

Writer-director Carmen Emmi handcuffs obsession to power in this confident debut set in ‘90s New York, detecting erotic fixations in homophobic policing. With one furtive eye on William Friedkin’s cult classic Cruising, Plainclothes searches fuzzy videotape surveillance footage for forbidden desire.

The first feature from visionary Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty is simply a masterpiece. Winner of the international critics’ award at Cannes, the film’s extraordinary sound design, choppy associative editing, and cool central couple dreaming of escape continues to electrify and inspire.

Refracting the iconic image of lo-fi band Pavement into new, hybrid forms, acclaimed filmmaker Alex Ross Perry innovatively distorts the music documentary. Joe Keery stars alongside the ’90s group, toying with their slacker-indie commitment to alternative culture with dazzling, hilarious subversion.

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.

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.

SubwayTakes creator Kareem Rahma swaps rapid transit for walking in step with comedian Mary Neely in this fresh low-budget drama, which the pair cowrote. Park buskers and mom-and-pop diners dot the route to intimacy—breaking through the ice of modern loneliness—in this tribute to a wintry New York.