Independent Cinema

'Oh, Canada' and 'Hard Truths' deliver gritty, powerful performances by Richard Gere and Marianne Jean-Baptiste respectively.

Luca Guadagnino's fabulous film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel resonates with a brilliant portrayal by Daniel Craig.

A young girl survives a plane crash, becomes a faith healer and with her father helps Indigenous people fight loggers.

'Nickel Boys' chronicles the strong friendship between two young Black men negotiating a horrific, abusive reform school in 1960s Florida.

Japanese writer-director Neo Sora's narrative feature film debut 'Happyend' confronts us about our political fears and seeming powerlessness in the face of looming environmental disasters.

Two films, one fictional, one a documentary, concern struggles with land possession and ownership that divergently reveal how money, greed and power become the salient motivation for evicting people who have worked the land for a century or more.

'The Wasp' is a gyrating, twisted psychological thriller, in which Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer go head to head captivating the audience with mesmerizing performances as estranged friends with secrets that can't be kept.

'Firebrand' shares the intrigue of the Tudor court as charismatic Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, attempts to stay alive.

A young woman (Dakota Johnson) jumps into the backseat of a yellow taxi heading from JFK Airport to Manhattan. The cab driver (Sean Penn) engages her in a personal conversation that changes their lives.

'Hacking Hate' reveals how hate proliferates online, and highlights how white supremacist groups use it to undermine democracy