Alex Gibney's Knife documents the 2022 stabbing that nearly killed Salman Rushdie. It's based on Rushdie's own account. But what matters is how Gibney built it: as elegy, as historical record, as defiance. Rachel Eliza…
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Rachael Morrison's Joybubbles is less biography than séance, an attempt to conjure the consciousness of Joe Engressia (who renamed himself Joybubbles) through archival fragments and audio recordings. The 79-minute runtime doesn't permit comprehensive accounting. Morrison…
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Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's Little Miss Sunshine won Sundance in 2006 and launched a thousand indie imitators. The festival honored it with a legacy screening in 2026 that proved something simple: great storytelling doesn't…
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Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth made this film as Marianne Faithfull was dying. She died in January 2025, during production. This fact transforms what could have been biography into something else entirely, a memorial. Straightforward…
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Jeffrey Walker adapts David Walliams' Fing for film. The premise is simple: spoiled 12-year-old Myrtle Meek's parents find a mysterious creature to teach her a lesson. It could be preachy. Instead Walker gets something right.…
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Gregg Araki hasn’t made a feature in twelve years. I Want Your Sex announces itself as deliberately shocking, then spends ninety minutes deciding whether to actually go through with it. The film opens well: Olivia…
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Josef Kubota Wladyka's Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a film that kills any easy separation between grief and life. A competitive ballroom dancer loses her husband mid-performance and finds herself navigating the unnavigable: how to…
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Andrew Stanton jumps from prehistoric caves to contemporary life to a distant spaceship bound for Kepler. The goal: find the universal human story threading through all three. Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, and Daveed Diggs anchor…
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Walter Thompson-Hernández's film follows Lil Ant, twelve, as his father returns from prison in Watts. The boy has learned to measure love in small amounts, in ways that won't disappoint him. His father arrives as…
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