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Oedipus wrecks in this vigorous domestic provocation from director Karim Aïnouz and Dogtooth screenwriter Efthimis Filippou. With an all-star cast that includes Elle Fanning, Callum Turner, and Riley Keough, Rosebush Pruning is a wickedly cutthroat satire of class, fashion, and privilege.

Explosive, lava-hot desire—and a literal volcanic eruption—threaten staid bourgeois routines in this stylish force-of-nature romance. Revealing the dramatic talents of zeitgeist-catching singer Charli XCX (who stars), Erupcja burns with all the yearning of an endless summer’s night in Warsaw.

Based on her award-winning, autobiographical novel, Eliza Barry Callahan’s graceful debut short explores the entwinement of the self and the senses. Working with the assured delicacy of miniaturists, indie darlings Maya Hawke and Victoria Pedretti helm this intimate two-hander.

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.

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.

Take a tumble down the rabbit holes of internet culture with this uncanny coming-of-age tale from director Jane Schoenbrun. Skirting the boundaries of horror, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a nerve-shredding fever dream of collective psychosis from the dark heart of the online zeitgeist.

With sharp wit and cathartic intensity, Coralie Fargeat turns toxic beauty culture inside out in her Oscar®-winning latest feature. Powered by a career-best performance from Demi Moore, The Substance fearlessly bulldozes its way into the midnight-movie pantheon and the feminist canon.

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.

A beautifully modulated turn from Alia Shawkat complicates the broader fun of this zany war satire, costarring Callum Turner. A playfully shot debut feature, Atropia lands its different strands skillfully: touching human drama, tangly undercover romance, and confrontational send-up of US militarism.