New York Times' Critics Picks

Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra

The Damned

Roberto Minervini

Intercepted

Oksana Karpovych

Nocturnes

Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan

Gueule d'Amour (Lady Killer)

Jean Gremillon

The Strange Mister Victor

Jean Gremillon

Pictures of Ghosts

Kleber Mendonca Filho

Apolonia, Apolonia

Leo Glob

Dry Ground Burning

Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Buddy

Heddy Honigmann

Days

Tsai Ming-Liang

Change of Life

Paulo Rocha

Malni - Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore

Sky Hopinka

Sweetgrass

Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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

Hill of Freedom

Hong Sangsoo

Il Buco

Michelangelo Frammartino

In My Room

Ulrich Kohler

In the Family

Patrick Wang

Infinite Football

Corneliu Porumboiu

Intregalde

Radu Muntean

Vitalina Varela

Pedro Costa

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

The Inheritance

Ephraim Asili

The Load

Ognjen Glavonić

The Mouth of the Wolf

Pietro Marcello

Black Mother

Khalik Allah

Atlantis

Valentyn Vasyanovych

Bisbee '17

Robert Greene

Woman on the Beach

Hong Sangsoo

Angels are Made of Light

James Longley

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

Patrick Wang

Fort Buchanan

Benjamin Crotty

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Brett Story

The Thoughts That Once We Had

Thom Andersen

Araby

Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans

Asako I & II

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Ava

Sadaf Foroughi

Fireworks Wednesday

Asghar Farhadi

Escapes

Michael Almereyda

Behemoth

Zhao Liang

Milla

Valérie Massadian

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

Travis Wilkerson

Last Men in Aleppo

Feras Fayyad

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

Laura Israel