30 DAYS OF CINEMA

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this twisted, hypnotic take on the coming-of-age drama, David Lynch finds voracious desires and feverish impulses lurking behind the white picket fences of the American dream. Beguiled by Isabella Rossellini’s tragic beauty, Kyle MacLachlan’s wide-eyed voyeur frees love from destructive passion.

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.

One hazard hides another in Mike Cheslik’s boldly lo-fi comedy, which tracks its hapless hero across a wintry cartoon-scape. Retrofitting video-game cadences to the practical genius of silent-era slapstick, this uproariously loopy film opens up a brave new world of sight gags and stuntwork.

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.