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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."
📍 Check local listings
#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
#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."
📍 AMC Empire 25 $
#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
★★★
📍 Check local listings
#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.
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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
★★★★
📍 L'Alliance — Sat Apr 11, 11:30 AM
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
★★★
📍 L'Alliance — Sat May 9, 11:30 AM
🎬 Quad Cinema — Now Playing
34 W 13th St, Greenwich Village — art house & indie films.
MAR 31–APR 2
Sentimental Value
Sisters Nora and Agnes reconnect with their estranged father Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), 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.
RT Critics
95%
RT Audience
94%
IMDb
7.8
Metacritic
86
MAR 31–APR 2
Hamnet
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.
Ebert
★★½
RT Critics
87%
RT Audience
93%
IMDb
7.9
Metacritic
84
APR 1–2
Spacewoman
Chronicling the life of Eileen Collins — the first woman to pilot and command an American spacecraft — through home movies, NASA archival footage, and intimate interviews. Includes a pre-recorded Q&A with Collins after screenings.
Ebert
★★★
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
9.1
MAR 31–APR 2
La Scala: The Force of Destiny
A fly-on-the-wall documentary following four intense months of preparation for opening night at Milan's La Scala opera house — 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.
APR 2–6
The Drama
Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), happily engaged, have a drunken late-night confessional with another couple — and Emma reveals a truth from her past that sends their wedding week off the rails. A24's audaciously dark and uncomfortable provocation.
Ebert
★½
RT Critics
83%
IMDb
7.2
Metacritic
64
MAR 31–APR 6
You're Dating a Narcissist!
Dr. Judy Kaplan (Marisa Tomei), a New York psychologist and narcissism expert, rushes to L.A. to stop her daughter's wedding — believing the groom is the exact type of man she warns against. Features Q&A appearances with filmmaker and pop-psych author Dr. Ramani.
RT Critics
47%
MAR 31–APR 6
Group: The Schopenhauer Effect
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.
APR 3–6
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
World-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz (84) and his wife, artist Maggie Barrett (75), have been together 30 years — 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.
RT Critics
100%
APR 3–6
Jimmy & the Demons
Artist James Grashow, approaching 80, takes on the biggest commission of his career: a five-foot carved-wood sculpture of Christ tormented by demons — 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.
🎟 AMC / Regal — Now Playing
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NOW PLAYING
Dhurandhar: The Revenge
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.
RT Critics
38%
RT Audience
95%
IMDb
8.6
AMC Empire 25
APR 5–8 ONLY
The Killer (4K Restoration)
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 — 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
★★★★
RT Critics
98%
IMDb
7.9
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
Regal Battery Park
OPENS APR 10
ChaO
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 4°C, distributed by GKIDS.
RT Critics
100%
IMDb
6.9
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
Regal Battery Park
OPENS APR 10
Exit 8
A commuter is trapped in an endless, sterile underground subway corridor governed by one rule: spot any anomaly, turn back immediately — 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.
IMDb
6.4
Regal Essex Crossing
Regal Battery Park
NOW PLAYING
Bunny!!
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.
RT Critics
100%
Regal Essex Crossing
NOW PLAYING
Alpha
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 — a visceral Cronenbergian AIDS allegory set in 1980s France about stigma, adolescence, and disease. From the director of Titane and Raw (Neon).
Ebert
★½
RT Critics
56%
IMDb
5.9
AMC Empire 25
AMC Lincoln Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NOW PLAYING
Food Truck: Stolen Love...and Moo Deng
Three friends — including Thai superstar Mario Maurer as a TikTok ASMR influencer — 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.
IMDb
6.6
AMC Empire 25
APR 22 ONLY
Kapodistrias (The Governor)
A sweeping epic about Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greece's first Governor after independence from the Ottoman Empire — 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.
IMDb
6.3
Regal Union Square
Regal Essex Crossing
NOW PLAYING
Our Hero, Balthazar
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 — and travels to Texas to confront him. A darkly comic buddy-road-movie satire about American gun culture (Picturehouse).
RT Critics
90%
IMDb
7.1
Regal Union Square
NOW PLAYING
Project Hail Mary
Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes alone in a spacecraft billions of miles from Earth with no memory — 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
★★½
RT Critics
95%
RT Audience
96%
IMDb
8.4
Metacritic
77
AMC Lincoln Square (IMAX)
AMC Empire 25 (IMAX/Dolby)
AMC 84th St
AMC Orpheum 7
AMC Harlem 9
Regal Union Square
Regal Battery Park
NOW PLAYING
Wuthering Heights
A boldly sensual retelling of Emily Brontë's gothic novel, starring Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff — their destructive love story on the Yorkshire moors reimagined through Fennell's provocative, youth-obsessed lens. $236M worldwide, WB release.
Ebert
★★
RT Critics
57%
RT Audience
76%
IMDb
6.2
Metacritic
55
AMC Lincoln Square
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