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Two Prosecutors
A KGB/Stalin-era drama set in a Soviet prison. An unapologetically political parable with unavoidable contemporary resonances. Compared to Kafka — precision of a Swiss watch.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
97%
Metacritic
85
IMDb
7.1
"Highest-rated recent review. Kafkaesque parable with the precision of a Swiss watch. Unavoidable contemporary resonances."
#2
Palestine 36
Set during the British Mandate era. Charts Palestine's colonial history. Palestine's Oscar entry. Stars Jeremy Irons. Elegantly conceived, sometimes didactic.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
97%
RT Audience
81%
IMDb
7.6
"Proficiently edited. Charts colonial victimhood elegantly, though sometimes didactic."
#3
Chime
A 45-minute horror masterwork exploring the banality of evil. Contains one of the coldest, most disturbing murders in recent horror. Theatrical only — will NEVER be on streaming or physical media.
Ebert
★★★½
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 — see it now or never."
📍 Check local listings
#4
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This Island (Esta Isla)
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.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
6.7
"Rich texture, trusts its audience. Colonialism, poverty, community. Spirit Awards Cassavetes winner."
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#5
undertone
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
★★★½
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."
📍 AMC 84th St $
📍 Regal Union Square $
#6
Miroirs No. 3
A four-person chamber piece starring Paula Beer as a depressed piano student. Hitchcockian shades of Vertigo. Explores spiritual death, resurrection, and rebirth.
Ebert
★★½
RT Critics
93%
"One of Germany's most exciting filmmakers. Hitchcockian Vertigo shades, but a mixed execution."
#7
Kontinental '25
From the provocative Romanian New Wave director behind Bad Luck Banging. Satirical and formally inventive.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
95%
Metacritic
82
IMDb
6.7
#8
Pompei: Below the Clouds
From the Golden Lion-winning documentarian (Sacro GRA, Fire at Sea). Last 4 days showing. Contemplative Italian documentary filmmaking at its finest.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
94%
IMDb
6.8
📍 IFC Center (last 4 days!)
#9
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Political documentary. Currently limited information but universally acclaimed by critics.
Ebert
★★★½
RT Critics
100%
Metacritic
80
IMDb
7.5
#10
Sirat
From the Spanish-Moroccan filmmaker behind Fire Will Come. Available with open captioning.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
91%
Metacritic
85
IMDb
7.0
#11
Late Shift
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
★★★
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."
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#12
Hamnet
Chloe Zhao's adaptation of the acclaimed novel about Shakespeare's son. Strong critical and audience reception.
Ebert
★★½
RT Critics
87%
RT Audience
92%
Metacritic
84
IMDb
7.9
"Works best as a sensory experience. Lush cinematography and sound design, but emotionally underwhelming."
#13
A Magnificent Life
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
★★½
RT Critics
65%
IMDb
6.9
"Beautiful frame-by-frame animation but "less than meets the eye" despite lovely visuals."
#14
Dead Lover
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
★★★
RT Critics
85%
Metacritic
66
IMDb
5.6
""Quietly radical" with palpable chemistry between the married real-life stars."
📍 IFC Center (Stink-O-Vision screenings!)
#15
Dhurandhar: The Revenge
Indian action-crime thriller. Major critic-audience split: Western critics less enthusiastic but massive fan response. Typical Bollywood action fare.
RT Critics
43%
IMDb
8.6
📍 AMC Empire 25 $
📍 Regal Union Square $
#16
Band Melam
Telugu-language romantic musical. Limited Western review coverage — Indian review sites gave roughly 1.5-2.5 out of 5.
RT/MC/IMDb
N/A
📍 AMC Empire 25 $
#17
Fantasy Life
Indie dramedy with Amanda Peet. A romantic comedy about smart, neurotic New Yorkers. Peet's performance singled out as the best part.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
84%
IMDb
7.0
"Slight but pleasing. Peet's performance is the best part."
#18
Marc by Sofia
Sofia Coppola's portrait of Marc Jacobs. Intimate fashion documentary from one of America's most distinctive filmmakers.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
73%
Metacritic
59
IMDb
5.5
#19
Tow
Rose Byrne fights to get her towed car back. Based on a true story. Often funny, avoids cliches, earned catharsis.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
81%
Metacritic
67
IMDb
6.3
"Byrne avoids sentimentalizing her character. Often funny, earned catharsis."
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#20
Alpha
From the Palme d'Or-winning director of Titane. Stars Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim. Divisive — bold auteur vision but critics split.
Ebert
★½
RT Critics
57%
Metacritic
50
IMDb
5.9
"Panned. Despite the pedigree, critics found it lacking."
#21
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
A documentary about the origins of cinema and the Lumière brothers. A love letter to the birth of film.
Ebert
★★★
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#22
Wuthering Heights
Emerald Fennell's (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) adaptation of the Brontë classic. Divisive — bold visual style but polarizing reviews.
Ebert
★★
RT Critics
57%
RT Audience
78%
Metacritic
55
IMDb
6.2
#23
Forbidden Fruits
Sapphic witch thriller starring Lili Reinhart. SXSW premiere. Aggressively campy with divine femininity themes. Reinhart praised for new levels of pathos.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
76%
Metacritic
54
IMDb
6.5
NEW
No Other Choice
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.
Ebert
★★★★
RT Critics
97%
RT Audience
93%
Metacritic
86
IMDb
7.6
NEW
The King's Warden
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
📍 AMC Empire 25 $
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Coming Soon
Upcoming foreign, indie & arthouse releases — plan ahead so you don't miss anything
APR 10
Exit 8
Based on the viral video game. A Tokyo subway passenger trapped in a looping underground passage. 8-minute standing ovation at Cannes Midnight. ¥5.2B box office in Japan. NEON distribution.
RT Critics
TBD
APR 25
April
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.
RT Critics
95%
APR 24
Two Seasons, Two Strangers
Golden Leopard winner at Locarno 2025. Inspired by Yoshiharu Tsuge manga — a Korean screenwriter navigating life in Japan. North American premiere at New Directors/New Films Apr 17, then Metrograph Apr 24.
RT Critics
TBD
📍 Metrograph
📍 Film at Lincoln Center (ND/NF)
APR 17
Amrum
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.
RT Critics
TBD
APR 22
La maison des bois
First-ever U.S. theatrical release! Pialat's 1971 masterwork — 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 22–28.
📍 Film at Lincoln Center
APR 8–19
If on a Winter's Night
Executive produced by Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light). A Malayali couple navigating life in Delhi. New Directors/New Films 2026.
📍 Film at Lincoln Center (ND/NF)
📍 MoMA
APR 17
Blue Heron
Feature debut. Won Swatch First Feature Award + Junior Jury Award at Locarno 2025. Set on Vancouver Island. Janus Films distribution.
NOW
Sentimental Value
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.
RT Critics
96%
⚡ MUST-SEE · thru APR 2
Days and Nights in the Forest
Four Calcutta men escape to a forest holiday and are forced to confront their own social pretensions and class assumptions. Ray at the height of his powers — elegant, wry, devastating.
RT Critics
100%
RT Audience
98%
IMDb
8.1
⚡ MUST-SEE · NOW
The Wind Will Carry Us
A Tehran engineer travels to a remote Kurdish village awaiting the death of an elderly woman. Kiarostami withholds, observes, and lets silence speak — meditative, profound, unforgettable.
RT Critics
97%
Metacritic
87
IMDb
7.4
NOW PLAYING
El Sur
A young girl slowly pieces together the secret life of her enigmatic father, tracing his mysterious past in the south of Spain. One of the most quietly shattering films ever made — Erice's unfinished masterpiece.
NOW PLAYING
Irma Vep
Hong Kong action star Maggie Cheung arrives in Paris to star in a French director's chaotic remake of a silent serial. A dazzling meta-cinematic puzzle about movies, desire, and cultural collision.
Metrograph (Binoche retro)
NOW PLAYING
La Notte
A single night in the disintegrating marriage of a Milanese author and his wife, drifting through parties and emptiness. Antonioni's austere masterpiece of modern alienation with Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti.
Roxy Cinema
NOW PLAYING
8½
A blocked film director retreats into memory, fantasy, and desire while being pressured to make his next picture. Fellini's supremely playful and deeply personal dream-film — the template for every movie about moviemaking since.
Roxy Cinema
NOW PLAYING
Allegro Non Troppo
Italy's anarchic, darkly funny answer to Fantasia — six classical pieces brought to life in wildly different animation styles, interspersed with live-action comedy. Ravel's Boléro set to the evolution of life is unforgettable.
NOW PLAYING
On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando as a washed-up boxer who could've been a contender, now caught between loyalty to a corrupt union boss and his conscience. "I coulda been somebody." Eight Oscars, one of cinema's greatest performances.
Regal Union Square (TCM)
NOW PLAYING
After Hours
A mild-mannered word processor has the worst night of his life trying to get home from SoHo. Scorsese's delirious, Kafkaesque black comedy — made quickly between The King of Comedy and The Color of Money.
NOW PLAYING
Sunset Boulevard
A faded silent film star keeps a struggling screenwriter captive in her decaying mansion, convinced she's on the verge of a comeback. Wilder's savage Hollywood noir — told by a corpse floating in a pool.
🇫🇷 Agnès Varda: Complete Retrospective — Film Forum (thru Apr 2)
The complete works of the godmother of the French New Wave. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Le Bonheur (1965)
Les Créatures (1966)
One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
Vagabond (1985)
Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988)
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
The Gleaners and I (2000)
Faces Places (2017)
Varda by Agnès (2019)
Lions Love (... and Lies)
⚡ Cléo, Vagabond, and The Gleaners are masterpieces — don't miss them.
🎬 Also Playing
IFC Center: Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
Paris Theatre: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos), Possession (Żuławski)
Metrograph: Battle Royale, Boris Barnet retrospective
🇫🇷 L'Alliance New York — Film Program
French cultural institution — near-free tickets! Full unfiltered list.
MAR 31
Judex
Franju's homage to silent serials — a vigilante pursues a thieving banker. Part of the Fantastic Realism of Georges Franju retrospective.
📍 L'Alliance — Tue Mar 31, 4 PM & 7 PM
APR 7
Thomas the Impostor
Adaptation of Jean Cocteau's WWI novel following two idealistic protagonists in wartime France.
📍 L'Alliance — Tue Apr 7, 4 PM & 7 PM
APR 11
Microcosmos
Acclaimed documentary unveiling the hidden world of insects. Family screening.
Ebert
★★★★
APR 14
Nuits Rouges
Franju's wild final feature — a pulpy fantasy/crime thriller centered on a search for treasure.
📍 L'Alliance — Tue Apr 14, 4 PM & 7 PM
APR 21
L'Aventura
A family vacation to Sardinia. US Premiere. Q&A with director Sophie Letourneur at 7 PM.
📍 L'Alliance — Tue Apr 21, 4 PM & 7 PM
APR 28
Voyages en Italie
Burnt-out parents escape to Sicily. NY Premiere. Director Sophie Letourneur in person.
📍 L'Alliance — Tue Apr 28, 4 PM & 7 PM
MAY 5
La Vie au ranch
Semi-autobiographical debut film following twentysomethings sharing an apartment.
📍 L'Alliance — Tue May 5, 4 PM & 7 PM
MAY 8
La Danse: Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
Frederick Wiseman documentary following rehearsals and performances of seven ballets at the Paris Opera Ballet.
📍 L'Alliance — Fri May 8, 3 PM & 7 PM
MAY 9
Winged Migration
Acclaimed documentary following birds on arduous journeys across seven continents, filmed over four years.
Ebert
★★★
