60 DAYS OF CINEMA

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.

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.

Spanning the political chaos of 1920s Italy, Benito Mussolini transforms from socialist journalist to Italy’s brutal dictator, starting with his Blackshirts militia to the establishment of an authoritarian rule that would go on to set Europe aflame.

Refracting primetime soap operas and cop shows into a one-of-a-kind cosmic melodrama, showrunners Mark Frost and David Lynch captured lightning in a bottle. Cloaking its dark secrets in a down-home slice of winsome Americana, Twin Peaks is the pop-cultural juggernaut that captivated a generation.

Hal and Harper have built their adult lives side by side in Los Angeles, bound by a lifetime of inside jokes and shared pain. When Dad announces he’s having a baby with his girlfriend, the siblings must reexamine their past and reckon with the versions of themselves they’ve carried into adulthood.

Physical touch has been eclipsed by taps and clicks, but Eugene Kotlyarenko’s absurdist comedy proposes a spicy aphrodisiac for the modern couple: digital surveillance! Swapping foreplay for spyware apps and screen recordings, this film-within-a-film romp searches for love in the time of drones.

The second feature from Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli, this wicked comedy is a deliciously dark portrait of a toxic relationship. With a delectable pair of performances at its center, Sick of Myself plumbs the merciless depths of its protagonists’ narcissism for an uproarious modern fable.

Things get weird in Amalia Ulman’s kaleidoscopic film, a colorful comedy of errors and an imaginative send-up of millennial media. Starring Simon Rex and Chloë Sevigny, this story of a frantic search for an internet sensation is electrified by wit, subversion, and distinctively fluorescent style.