Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest offering could hardly feel less Hollywood in either spirit or execution.

A timely reminder of the power of art to dramatize history.

More than just a commentary on leadership and hubris, The Odyssey is an adventure film, a romance story, a coming-of-age tale, and a Greek tragedy all rolled into one.

This is The Wizard of Oz, only with transactional sex, gangsters, Hollywood misfits, countless pop culture references, and surprise celebrity cameos.

The adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s best-selling memoir of her life in post-revolutionary Iran, where she shared forbidden Western books with seven female students.

Ross McElwee’s latest film may be his most personal exploration yet, chronicling the grief he has felt since 27-year-old son died of a fentanyl overdose.

From an array of eclectic films, here are three among the varied slate that may have been somewhat overlooked.

Bouchra deals with family estrangement, queerness and the closet, and cultural prohibitions sometimes forthrightly, sometimes obliquely, and sometimes by not dealing with them at all.

The film’s chief strength is the way it captures ennui. Indeed, there are times this seems like a movie mostly preoccupied with waiting.