A KGB/Stalin-era drama set in a Soviet prison. An unapologetically political parable with unavoidable contemporary resonances. Compared to Kafka โ precision of a Swiss watch.
Ebert
โ โ โ โ
RT Critics
97%
Metacritic
85
IMDb
7.1
"Highest-rated recent review. Kafkaesque parable with the precision of a Swiss watch. Unavoidable contemporary resonances."
Set during the British Mandate era. Charts Palestine's colonial history. Palestine's Oscar entry. Stars Jeremy Irons. Elegantly conceived, sometimes didactic.
Ebert
โ โ โ ยฝ
RT Critics
97%
RT Audience
81%
IMDb
7.6
"Proficiently edited. Charts colonial victimhood elegantly, though sometimes didactic."
A 45-minute horror masterwork exploring the banality of evil. Contains one of the coldest, most disturbing murders in recent horror. Theatrical only โ will NEVER be on streaming or physical media.
Ebert
โ โ โ ยฝ
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
6.4
"From the master of Cure and Pulse. One of the coldest, most disturbing murders in recent horror. Theatrical only โ see it now or never."
๐ต๐ท Puerto RicanIndie Drama/ThrillerSpirit Awards Winner
ForeignIndie
Two fishermen brothers whose smuggling side hustle goes wrong. Explores colonialism, poverty, community, and grief. Won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2026 Spirit Awards.
Themes of grief and lack of faith embedded in a sonic and visual nightmare. Sundance premiere. One of the most chill-inducing final acts in recent memory. Announces Ian Tuason as a major talent.
Ebert
โ โ โ ยฝ
RT Critics
72%
RT Audience
52%
Metacritic
66
IMDb
6.6
"Sonic and visual nightmare about grief. One of the most chill-inducing final acts in recent memory."
A four-person chamber piece starring Paula Beer as a depressed piano student. Hitchcockian shades of Vertigo. Explores spiritual death, resurrection, and rebirth.
Ebert
โ โ ยฝ
RT Critics
93%
"One of Germany's most exciting filmmakers. Hitchcockian Vertigo shades, but a mixed execution."
๐จ๐ญ Swiss/GermanDrama/ThrillerSwitzerland's Oscar Entry
Foreign
Set in an understaffed hospital during a late shift, plays almost in real time. Leonie Benesch gives a delicate, intimate performance. Switzerland's Oscar entry.
Ebert
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RT Critics
96%
Metacritic
69
IMDb
7.7
"Benesch's performance is delicate and intimate, but the film doesn't fully color in the context."
From the director of The Triplets of Belleville. An animated biopic of French literary icon Marcel Pagnol. Beautiful hand-drawn animation, but weighed down by a clunky framing device.
Ebert
โ โ ยฝ
RT Critics
65%
IMDb
6.9
"Beautiful frame-by-frame animation but "less than meets the eye" despite lovely visuals."
๐จ๐ฆ Canadian IndieComedy/Horror/RomanceStink-O-Vision!
IndieHorror
An absurd Frankenstein riff shot on a black box theater set with miniatures, stop-motion, and 16mm. Special "Stink-O-Vision" screenings. Compared to The Mighty Boosh staging Bride of Frankenstein.
Ebert
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RT Critics
85%
Metacritic
66
IMDb
5.6
""Quietly radical" with palpable chemistry between the married real-life stars."
๐ฐ๐ท KoreanDir: Park Chan-wookBlack Comedy/Crime/Thriller
Korean$ Discount
A desperate paper industry expert decides to kill off his top three rivals for a job opening. Park Chan-wook's wickedly clever takedown of the corporate rat race. 9-minute standing ovation at Venice.
๐ฐ๐ท KoreanDir: Jang Hang-junHistorical Drama/Comedy
Korean
A humble village headman unknowingly hosts the deposed boy-king Danjong, forming a bond tested by rebellion. Highest-grossing Korean film of all time (15M+ admissions). Surprisingly warm and funny for a sageuk.
RT Critics
96%
RT Audience
97%
IMDb
7.5
๐ AMC Empire 25$๐ Check NJ theaters for additional screenings
Based on the viral video game. A Tokyo subway passenger trapped in a looping underground passage. 8-minute standing ovation at Cannes Midnight. ยฅ5.2B box office in Japan. NEON distribution.
An OB/GYN faces malpractice charges while secretly providing illegal abortions in rural Georgia. Venice Special Jury Prize. Filmmaker Q&A at Film Forum Apr 24 & 26.
Golden Leopard winner at Locarno 2025. Inspired by Yoshiharu Tsuge manga โ a Korean screenwriter navigating life in Japan. North American premiere at New Directors/New Films Apr 17, then Metrograph Apr 24.
RT Critics
TBD
๐ Metrograph๐ Film at Lincoln Center (ND/NF)
WWII coming-of-age on the island of Amrum, 1945. Stars Diane Kruger. Cannes 2025. From the director of Head-On and The Edge of Heaven. Kino Lorber distribution, NYC exclusive at Quad Cinema.
๐ซ๐ท FrenchDir: Maurice PialatDrama (4K restoration)
French
First-ever U.S. theatrical release! Pialat's 1971 masterwork โ a 7-part TV series presented as a film. WWI-era village story. Janus Films 4K restoration. Part of Pialat retrospective at Lincoln Center Apr 22โ28.
2026 Oscar winner, Best International Feature Film. Cannes Grand Prix winner. A family drama about an estranged father and two sisters. From the director of The Worst Person in the World.
๐ฎ๐ณ Days and Nights in the Forest โ Satyajit Ray (1970)
Held over through April 2 at Film Forum. A masterpiece by India's greatest filmmaker. Four Calcutta men on a holiday in the forest confront their own social pretensions.
โก MUST-SEE for you โ Indian classic on the big screen. Ends April 2!
๐ฎ๐ท The Wind Will Carry Us โ Abbas Kiarostami (1999)
Showing at Metrograph. One of the defining works of Iranian cinema. A Tehran engineer travels to a remote Kurdish village. Meditative, profound, unforgettable.
RT Critics
97%
Metacritic
87
IMDb
7.4
โก MUST-SEE for you โ Iranian masterpiece by Kiarostami at Metrograph!
๐ซ๐ท Agnรจs Varda: A Comprehensive Retrospective โ Film Forum
Running through April 2. The complete works of the godmother of the French New Wave. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Clรฉo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Le Bonheur (1965)
Les Crรฉatures (1966)
One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
Vagabond (1985)
Jane B. by Agnรจs V. (1988)
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
The Gleaners and I (2000)
Faces Places (2017)
Varda by Agnรจs (2019)
Lions Love (... and Lies)
โก MUST-SEE โ Varda is essential French cinema. Clรฉo, Vagabond, and The Gleaners are masterpieces.
๐ช๐ธ El Sur โ Vรญctor Erice (1983)
Showing at Metrograph. One of the great Spanish films. A daughter pieces together the mystery of her father.
๐ซ๐ท Irma Vep โ Olivier Assayas (1996)
Showing at Metrograph as part of a Juliette Binoche retrospective. Meta-cinematic masterpiece starring Maggie Cheung.
๐ฎ๐น Classic Italian โ Metrograph & Roxy Cinema
Metrograph: Allegro Non Troppo (animated Fantasia parody) Roxy Cinema: La Notte (1961, Antonioni) & 8ยฝ (1963, Fellini) โ two of the greatest Italian films ever made.
๐ฌ Other Repertory Screenings
Regal Union Square: On the Waterfront (TCM presentation) IFC Center: After Hours (Scorsese), Waiting for Guffman (Guest) Paris Theatre: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos), Possession (ลปuลawski) Metrograph: Sunset Boulevard, Battle Royale & Boris Barnet retrospective
๐ซ๐ท L'Alliance New York โ Film Program
French cultural institution โ near-free tickets! Full unfiltered list.
Sisters Nora and Agnes reconnect with their estranged father Gustav (Stellan Skarsgรฅrd), a once-celebrated director seeking a comeback with an autobiographical film. When he bypasses Nora for Hollywood actress Elle Fanning in the lead role, a complex family crisis erupts.
After the death of their young son Hamnet from plague in 16th-century England, Agnes Shakespeare (Jessie Buckley) and William (Paul Mescal) are torn apart by grief. The film imagines the devastating personal loss that may have inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet.
Chronicling the life of Eileen Collins โ the first woman to pilot and command an American spacecraft โ through home movies, NASA archival footage, and intimate interviews. Includes a pre-recorded Q&A with Collins after screenings.
๐ซ๐ท๐ฎ๐น France/ItalyAnissa BonnefontDocumentary / Music
DocumentaryFrench
A fly-on-the-wall documentary following four intense months of preparation for opening night at Milan's La Scala opera house โ Verdi's La Forza del Destino, with soprano Anna Netrebko and conductor Riccardo Chailly. 900 artisans and musicians behind the world's most storied opera house.
Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), happily engaged, have a drunken late-night confessional with another couple โ and Emma reveals a truth from her past that sends their wedding week off the rails. A24's audaciously dark and uncomfortable provocation.
Dr. Judy Kaplan (Marisa Tomei), a New York psychologist and narcissism expert, rushes to L.A. to stop her daughter's wedding โ believing the groom is the exact type of man she warns against. Features Q&A appearances with filmmaker and pop-psych author Dr. Ramani.
A charming documentary filmmaker joins a Manhattan therapy group and announces plans to turn the sessions into a TV series, unraveling the group's carefully maintained trust. Inspired by Irvin D. Yalom's novel The Schopenhauer Cure; largely improvised in 90-minute uncut takes with a real psychoanalyst.
๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ฐ UK/Denmark/USAManon Ouimet & Jacob PerlmutterDocumentary
Documentary
World-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz (84) and his wife, artist Maggie Barrett (75), have been together 30 years โ but an old knot of creative inequality tightens when a broken leg forces Joel to become her caregiver. In the shadow of mortality, they attempt to forge a deeper peace.
Artist James Grashow, approaching 80, takes on the biggest commission of his career: a five-foot carved-wood sculpture of Christ tormented by demons โ a four-year undertaking that becomes a meditation on art, mortality, and creation. The director captured 300+ hours of footage; Grashow saw the finished film before he died from cancer.
Undercover Indian intelligence agent Hamza Ali Mazari (Ranveer Singh) continues infiltrating Pakistan's criminal underworld in Karachi, avenging the 26/11 Mumbai attacks while confronting corrupt officials and a ruthless ISI Major. The sequel to 2025's Dhurandhar, it has become the highest-grossing Indian film ever in North America.
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong / CantoneseJohn Woo (1989)Action / Crime
ForeignClassicRegal Discount
Hitman Ah Jong (Chow Yun-fat) accidentally blinds a nightclub singer during a job. Determined to pay for her sight-restoring surgery, he takes one final contract โ as a detective (Danny Lee) closes in. John Woo's operatic masterpiece of heroic bloodshed, screening in a new 4K restoration with a post-film interview with Woo.
Ebert
โ โ โ โ
RT Critics
98%
IMDb
7.9
Regal Union SquareRegal Essex CrossingRegal Battery Park
๐ฏ๐ต JapaneseYasuhiro AokiAnimation / Romance / Fantasy
JapaneseAnimationRegal Discount
In a near-future Shanghai where humans and mermaids coexist, mild-mannered shipping engineer Stephan is suddenly proposed to by mermaid princess Chao. As their unlikely romance deepens, a tragic accident threatens the fragile peace between their two species. Produced by Studio 4ยฐC, distributed by GKIDS.
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
6.9
Regal Union SquareRegal Essex CrossingRegal Battery Park
A commuter is trapped in an endless, sterile underground subway corridor governed by one rule: spot any anomaly, turn back immediately โ miss one, and something terrible happens. Based on the viral 2023 video game; premiered in Cannes Midnight section 2025 to an 8-minute standing ovation. Neon release.
A celebrated relationship advice TV host finds her meticulously maintained public image threatened when a mysterious guest named Bunny appears on her show, hinting at a toxic past while hiding darker secrets connected to the host's own life. Vietnam's #1 box office film of the year, now in its first international release.
A troubled 13-year-old named Alpha returns home with a mysterious tattoo, sending her single mother into a spiral as both their lives are upended โ a visceral Cronenbergian AIDS allegory set in 1980s France about stigma, adolescence, and disease. From the director of Titane and Raw (Neon).
Ebert
โ ยฝ
RT Critics
56%
IMDb
5.9
AMC Empire 25AMC Lincoln SquareRegal Essex Crossing
Three friends โ including Thai superstar Mario Maurer as a TikTok ASMR influencer โ pile onto a food truck road trip after discovering a runaway Korean boy named Sarang. The viral baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng makes her feature film debut. Releases on Netflix globally after the theatrical run.
๐ฌ๐ท GreekYannis SmaragdisBiography / Historical Drama
ForeignRegal Discount
A sweeping epic about Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greece's first Governor after independence from the Ottoman Empire โ a visionary statesman who sacrifices wealth, glory, and ultimately his life to defend his nation's freedom. The 5th highest-grossing Greek film of all time. One night only via Fathom Events.
A wealthy teenager starts posting viral videos calling for stricter gun laws to impress his crush, but becomes convinced an online troll is a mass shooter โ and travels to Texas to confront him. A darkly comic buddy-road-movie satire about American gun culture (Picturehouse).
๐บ๐ธ USAPhil Lord & Christopher MillerSci-Fi / Drama
AMC Discount
Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes alone in a spacecraft billions of miles from Earth with no memory โ and pieces together he's on a solo mission to find the source of an organism threatening the Sun. As he does, he makes an extraordinary interstellar contact. Based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel; $317M worldwide.
Ebert
โ โ ยฝ
RT Critics
95%
RT Audience
96%
IMDb
8.4
Metacritic
77
AMC Lincoln Square (IMAX)AMC Empire 25 (IMAX/Dolby)AMC 84th StAMC Orpheum 7AMC Harlem 9Regal Union SquareRegal Battery Park
A boldly sensual retelling of Emily Brontรซ's gothic novel, starring Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff โ their destructive love story on the Yorkshire moors reimagined through Fennell's provocative, youth-obsessed lens. $236M worldwide, WB release.