Criterion - New - Movies, a list by Linvo

7.4

/258407/

72

/11001/

71

/2854/

3.8

/2228755/

93

/352/

85

/490/

91

/62/

4.0

age 17+

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.

87

7.9

/120109/

78

/7250/

81

/2547/

4.1

/948994/

97

/196/

98

/216/

87

/31/

4.0

age 6+

A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

80

30

7.0

/210/

75

/10/

75

/3/

3.8

/1572/

100

/9/

88

/1/

An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American visual artists, through four of his short films, brought to life by the atmospheric music of SQÜRL.

83

7.6

/76793/

74

/2949/

74

/954/

3.9

/659470/

96

/275/

91

/67/

90

/53/

3.5

age 15+

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

86

7.9

/97881/

79

/4005/

77

/1730/

4.3

/710849/

96

/186/

93

/34/

80

/38/

4.0

age 12+

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

83

7.6

/203789/

75

/8056/

75

/3074/

4.1

/1378363/

96

/287/

91

/63/

86

/44/

3.5

age 14+

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

81

7.5

/9107/

72

/384/

72

/154/

4.2

/61059/

95

/145/

64

/19/

91

/34/

4.0

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

76

6.8

/6188/

66

/221/

62

/192/

3.8

/33201/

95

/138/

57

/22/

91

/37/

4.0

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

64

5.3

/8996/

56

/571/

53

/218/

3.1

/28609/

91

/148/

67

/58/

72

/30/

2.5

age 15+

Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.

84

7.6

/141888/

75

/5961/

80

/3215/

4.0

/649555/

96

/298/

90

/575/

79

/49/

4.0

age 11+

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

71

7.2

/211822/

69

/8126/

70

/2687/

3.7

/843676/

72

/285/

80

/71/

63

/47/

3.0

age 15+

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

80

7.6

/16279/

74

/678/

75

/251/

4.0

/86920/

92

/167/

75

/210/

83

/34/

3.5

age 14+

A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.

77

7.0

/180593/

68

/7674/

69

/3230/

3.4

/386483/

87

/63/

85

/134/

70

/55/

4.0

age 16+

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

79

6.8

/220444/

67

/6793/

67

/2866/

3.7

/495830/

94

/366/

76

/28/

89

/58/

4.0

age 15+

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

76

7.1

/164674/

70

/5779/

70

/2853/

3.7

/919365/

75

/320/

76

/313/

75

/57/

4.0

age 15+

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

82

7.3

/6070/

74

/331/

67

/114/

3.9

/34555/

98

/135/

79

/17/

87

/31/

4.0

age 15+

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.

85

7.7

/120952/

75

/3718/

74

/1687/

4.1

/829299/

96

/252/

86

/207/

91

/47/

4.0

age 16+

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

72

6.8

/775/

70

/31/

76

/14/

3.7

/3955/

97

/35/

33

/1/

3.5

A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today. A tapestry of intimate stories offers a window into the dreams of youth under a repressive regime.

84

7.5

/75244/

75

/2757/

74

/1427/

4.2

/360182/

97

/216/

78

/269/

91

/42/

4.0

age 15+

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

71

6.6

/11473/

65

/384/

62

/232/

3.6

/50791/

84

/164/

53

/32/

80

/32/

3.5

age 16+

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

83

7.4

/20415/

73

/800/

71

/436/

4.1

/145941/

97

/219/

81

/39/

93

/37/

4.0

age 10+

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.

81

7.0

/675/

69

/37/

65

/10/

3.7

/2812/

100

/22/

100

/2/

89

/5/

3.5

A man and a woman in Lagos want to escape their everyday lives, but extricating themselves is no easy task. Two stories narrated with tenderness and restraint that only fleetingly touch, the dream of migrating to Europe floating above them all the while.

78

7.1

/35635/

70

/1531/

70

/677/

3.7

/85962/

98

/348/

78

/132/

83

/51/

3.5

age 15+

In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.

83

7.7

/182152/

77

/5951/

77

/2736/

4.2

/780425/

97

/287/

90

/473/

82

/37/

3.5

age 15+

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

75

6.8

/6528/

68

/293/

67

/118/

3.8

/26727/

98

/132/

51

/43/

91

/23/

3.5

age 14+

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.

87

8.2

/5779/

81

/340/

76

/81/

4.3

/27415/

97

/143/

85

/46/

93

/28/

4.0

age 12+

A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.

85

7.3

/1667/

73

/53/

74

/43/

4.1

/8236/

100

/38/

91

/3/

91

/11/

4.0

Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.

74

6.9

/1783/

67

/84/

68

/42/

3.6

/6608/

97

/76/

72

/11/

75

/16/

3.0

Reunited after a 17-year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the emotional distance between them.

81

7.4

/7591/

72

/410/

71

/137/

3.9

/37717/

99

/101/

78

/37/

89

/28/

3.5

age 13+

With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.

83

7.8

/466192/

75

/16627/

75

/7285/

3.9

/864023/

95

/468/

86

/325/

94

/55/

3.5

age 17+

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

85

7.9

/368185/

77

/11200/

77

/7258/

4.0

/1305256/

95

/408/

85

/35/

94

/53/

4.0

age 16+

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

89

8.0

/124712/

81

/4680/

81

/2832/

4.4

/994684/

97

/338/

92

/98/

95

/48/

4.0

age 15+

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

79

7.4

/347506/

73

/14000/

72

/5176/

4.0

/1527877/

91

/351/

52

/2789/

93

/59/

4.0

age 16+

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

70

6.6

/8946/

62

/507/

63

/356/

3.3

/37769/

96

/97/

59

/62/

79

/14/

3.0

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

75

7.5

/8511/

74

/326/

70

/141/

3.9

/26397/

92

/96/

81

/29/

87

/27/

2.0

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.

91

IMDb 95

8.5

/1133005/

85

/43852/

84

/19932/

4.5

/4795835/

99

/485/

90

/2503/

97

/56/

4.0

age 16+

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

84

7.6

/177189/

75

/5481/

76

/4046/

4.1

/451881/

96

/408/

72

/1120/

96

/50/

4.0

age 16+

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

75

6.8

/33158/

68

/1416/

66

/759/

3.6

/75134/

94

/220/

71

/155/

80

/41/

3.5

age 15+

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

87

8.0

/10986/

79

/643/

77

/188/

4.3

/47926/

100

/130/

90

/117/

89

/28/

4.0

age 16+

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

83

7.5

/64908/

73

/2038/

74

/1546/

4.0

/170566/

92

/254/

82

/174/

90

/45/

4.0

age 16+

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

76

7.8

/207942/

78

/9428/

78

/5234/

4.0

/1069125/

90

/368/

87

/1145/

82

/55/

1.5

age 11+

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

74

6.8

/2490/

71

/96/

66

/55/

3.8

/8835/

92

/53/

50

/5/

4.0

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.

75

7.3

/470835/

73

/24404/

72

/12609/

3.7

/982267/

92

/466/

73

/3211/

87

/53/

2.5

age 16+

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

83

7.4

/57012/

75

/2442/

74

/1277/

3.8

/55380/

97

/202/

85

/314/

85

/44/

4.0

age 15+

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

66

6.0

/8321/

57

/237/

51

/215/

3.3

/19889/

87

/142/

33

/49/

79

/33/

4.0

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

77

7.3

/140494/

73

/7677/

73

/4453/

3.7

/467421/

87

/239/

81

/625/

75

/36/

3.5

age 15+

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

77

7.2

/7610/

74

/339/

69

/210/

3.8

/34150/

90

/80/

75

/13/

75

/17/

3.5

An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.

78

7.2

/14701/

70

/362/

69

/343/

3.8

/19454/

92

/108/

75

/30/

84

/23/