Ian Tuason’s debut feature was made for just $500,000 and succeeds by using its budget limitations to its advantage.

Written, directed, scored, photographed, edited, and starring Jethro Waters, this deeply strange microbudget tale will definitely appeal to fans of quirky cult movies.

Truly a crowd pleaser, there’s something for everyone to love in Lord & Miller’s adaptation of the Andy Weir novel.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second feature as director is a deeply strange, out-there film that curb-stomps every Frankenstein adaptation to a bloody pulp with an outpouring of style and ideas.

This posthumous documentary spotlights the body modification and alternative BDSM queer culture from the 1950s onward, with performance artist Fakir Musafar at the center.

Rod Blackhurst’s Dolly may not reinvent the slasher horror movie, but its grindhouse feel, captivating villain, and tough-as-nails protagonist offer enough twists on the formula make for a very fun ride.

Get ready for one of the most unexpectedly tense and horrifying cinematic journeys in recent memory.

With a massive cast and grand desert vistas, Yuen Woo-ping’s latest showcases the wuxia genre on an epic scale and should deliver anything a fan wants.

John Patton Ford’s follow-up to Emily the Criminal is an enjoyable, often funny flick riding the current wave of late-stage capitalism cinema. Just don’t expect any real social commentary or airtight logic.

This is a smart, clever, well-crafted movie that offers a true representation of a highly stereotyped and often dismissed queer subculture and so much more.

The visual storytelling, quirky details, and vibrant energy of Emerald Fennell’s enjoyable adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel are held back when the script veers too closely into tradition.

While there are quite a few funny moments and scenarios in The Moment, this mockumentary is conceptually more interesting to think about than to watch.

Gorgeously photographed, each frame of Walter Thompson-Hernández’s If I Go Will They Miss Me is stunning and elevates an often-told story to mythic proportions.

Set against one of the many economic protests in Nigeria, a tough-as-nails cab driver tries to make ends meet and squirrel enough away to escape.

Sure to be a crowd pleaser, the cheekily tilted Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! depicts the chaotic interior and exterior life of a fanciful woman after the death of her husband and ballroom dance partner.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2026, Visar Morina’s Shame and Money could also win an award for the most on-the-nose film title.

Winner of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award Dramatic and Grand Jury Prize Dramatic, Josephine is an extremely upsetting and horrifying two hours—yet also a cinematic achievement.

Depicting the cold realities of the American medical system as well as the warm, quiet moments of family life that continue despite the circumstances, Liz Sargent’s Take Me Home dares to ask if it has to be this way. 

A nihilistic nightmare of teenage hell and kaleidoscopic style, Makoto Nagahisa’s Burn is one of the most unique films you’ll see this year, if not this decade.

A portrait of a Tehran the Western media never shows, The Friend’s House is Here depicts the vibrant friendship of two Bohemian underground artists reckoning with an oppressive government.