New York Times' Critics Picks

Gueule d'Amour (Lady Killer)

Jean Gremillon

The Strange Mister Victor

Jean Gremillon

Pictures of Ghosts

Kleber Mendonca Filho

Apolonia, Apolonia

Leo Glob

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Dry Ground Burning

Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

Hill of Freedom

Hong Sangsoo

Angels are Made of Light

James Longley

Il Buco

Michelangelo Frammartino

Bisbee '17

Robert Greene

Black Mother

Khalik Allah

Buddy

Heddy Honigmann

Change of Life

Paulo Rocha

Days

Tsai Ming-Liang

Malni - Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore

Sky Hopinka

Sweetgrass

Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Atlantis

Valentyn Vasyanovych

A Bread Factory pt.1: For the Sake of Gold

Patrick Wang

North By Current

Angelo Madsen Minax

Free Time

Manfred Kirchheimer

Friends and Strangers

James Vaughan

Futura

Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher

Woman on the Beach

Hong Sangsoo

In My Room

Ulrich Kohler

In the Family

Patrick Wang

Infinite Football

Corneliu Porumboiu

Intregalde

Radu Muntean

Life and Nothing More

Antonio Méndez Esparza

Los Reyes

Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff

Lost and Beautiful

Pietro Marcello

Slow Machine

Paul Felten, Joe DeNardo

Something, Anything

Paul Harrill

The American Sector

Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez

The Grief of Others

Patrick Wang

The Hottest August

Brett Story

A Bread Factory pt.2: Walk with Me a While

Patrick Wang

The Inheritance

Ephraim Asili

The Load

Ognjen Glavonić

The Mouth of the Wolf

Pietro Marcello

Vitalina Varela

Pedro Costa

Behemoth

Zhao Liang

Araby

Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans

Asako I & II

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Fort Buchanan

Benjamin Crotty

Last Men in Aleppo

Feras Fayyad

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

Laura Israel

Ava

Sadaf Foroughi

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

Travis Wilkerson

The Thoughts That Once We Had

Thom Andersen

Milla

Valérie Massadian

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Brett Story

Fireworks Wednesday

Asghar Farhadi

Escapes

Michael Almereyda