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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.

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.

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.

Cascading through time, Mascha Schilinski’s incomparable Cannes prizewinner orchestrates echoes of past experience into transcendent poetic cinema. Surfacing evocative, gilded imagery from the shadows of femininity, Sound of Falling confirms the tremendous talents of its ambitious writer-director.

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.

Channeling influence from the movies into her mesmerizing movements, Mitski gives live performances that find kindred spirit in cinema. Playing with speed, color, and freeze frames to electrifying effect, her first concert documentary embraces the transformative power of both film and music.