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Jane Schoenbrun returns with a new kind of remake, carving up slasher conventions with surreal, campy abandon. Newly-minted scream queens Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson are a revelatory pairing, bringing wit, deep feeling, and sultry eroticism to this visionary dissection of movie nostalgia.

Katarina Zhu writes, directs, and stars in her subtly sexy debut feature, which draws from the metal-blue glow of the screen for its portrait of modern alienation. With a milky-white rabbit and sensitive strokes of empathy, Bunnylovr burrows for tender moments among lurking danger and suspense.

Charles Laughton’s tenebrous Southern Gothic fable achieves a rarely seen perfection of vision—remarkable for being the sole(!) directorial effort by the erstwhile actor. Amid the cold, obsidian beauty of Laughton’s direction, a petrifying Robert Mitchum burns with fire-and-brimstone malice.

Filmed in the pulsing, quivering low frame-rate of a 2000s Sony Ericsson camera phone, Alexandre Koberidze’s lo-fi magical-realist epic glimmers with the humble mystery of the everyday. Mesmeric and transcendent, Dry Leaf is one of the most breathtakingly original films of the decade so far.

A heartfelt exploration of queerness wrapped in unexpectedly furry packaging, this beguiling metacinematic animation is a work of profound imagination and sincerity. Designing its chimerical world with stunning precision, Bouchra bridges the gap between the surreal and the hyperreal.

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.