Oscar nominee Petra Costa explores how evangelical Christianity became a dominant political force in Brazil, charting the rise of Jair Bolsonaro and connecting Brazil’s current crisis to global trends — drawing parallels to the U.S., Israel, and other democracies facing similar threats. Timely and eye-opening, it is sure to be an awards contender.

For anyone struggling with artistic dreams in an unstable time — or a post-pandemic search for home and belonging — Everything’s Going to be Great is about a couple pursuing regional theater as they try and raise polar-opposite sons and their mental health challenges. Allison Janney and Bryan Cranston carry this brisk dramedy as it

Shedding fresh light on the refugee crisis across Europe, Ghost Trail follows a Syrian man taking refuge in Strasbourg, France after being tortured by the Assad regime.  Using a multiplayer video game, he joins a clandestine community of exiles determined to identify and find former regime operatives now living in Europe, leading a dogged pursuit

From the legendary director David Cronenberg, best known for Crash and A History of Violence, this morbid indie follows an entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel) mourning his wife (Diane Kruger) as he runs a new software company that allows the bereaved to witness to the gradual decay of loved ones in their graves — until a rash

Idris Elba and John Cena team up as two feuding heads of state — the Prime Minister of the UK and President of the United States, respectively — who are forced on the run after their security forces are derailed by a foreign adversary in this PG-13 globetrotting action-comedy that also stars Priyanka Chopra Jonas,

A deeper-than-it-looks French-English romantic comedy about a Paris bookseller with literary ambitions who attends a Jane Austen retreat and finds herself dropped into her own modern-day love triangle.  Witty and escapist, it questions how fiction shapes our expectations about love.  From Katie Walsh at the Los Angeles Times: “There’s a salve-like quality to Jane Austen

Set in Italy’s stunning isle of Capri, the follow-up to the 2018 mystery-thriller about a single mom named Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) and a glamorous PR exec named Emily who’s living a double life (Blake Lively). This time, the two are reunited for Emily’s wedding to a wealthy Italian businessman, and the plots, the fashions, and

A high-adrenaline spectacle with a redemption arc, Brad Pitt stars as race car driver who crashed badly in the 90s, but gets drawn back in to the sport by a former teammate (Javier Bardem) to save his struggling F1 team by mentoring a rookie (Damson Idris) — forcing him to stare down his traumas. Directed

She was a Hollywood “bombshell” in the 50s, but Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident when her daughter — the actress Mariska Hargitay — was just three years old. The Law & Order star steps behind the camera to direct this deeply personal documentary that unravels like a mystery as it reframes her mother’s

Apple’s new psychological thriller asks a big question: how far should a mother go to protect their adult child?  Julianne Moore stars as the mother whose troubled daughter (Sydney Sweeney) shows up covered in blood, leaving her to unravel what happened and what to do about it in this tense and atmospheric feature from Mare