Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, and Julianne Nicholson lead a year of unforgettable cinema.
  • THE BRUTALIST: Adrien Brody is visionary architect László Toth in Brady Corbet's 215-minute epic feature.
    1. THE BRUTALIST: Adrien Brody is visionary architect László Toth in Brady Corbet’s 215-minute epic feature, opening January 10 in Boston.
  • 2. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT: Opening Jan. 10 in Boston, the movie explores the lives and connections of three women in contemporary, working-class Mumbai—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti), her coworker Anu (DivyaPrabha), and hospital cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam)—in a soulful, Cannes Grand Prize-winning debut from writer/director Payal Kapadia. (Janus Films)
    2. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT: Opening Jan. 10 in Boston, the movie explores the lives and connections of three women in contemporary, working-class Mumbai—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti), her coworker Anu (DivyaPrabha), and hospital cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam)—in a soulful, Cannes Grand Prize-winning debut from writer/director Payal Kapadia. (Janus Films)
  • 3. HARD TRUTHS: Mike Leigh’s compassionate and sometimes comical character study of a woman struggling (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) with depression opens in Boston January 10. (Simon Mein/Bleecker Street)
    3. HARD TRUTHS: Mike Leigh’s compassionate and sometimes comical character study of a woman struggling (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) with depression opens in Boston January 10. (Simon Mein/Bleecker Street)
  • 4. JANET PLANET: Zoe Ziegler and Julianne Nicholson play mother-and-daughter in playwright Annie Baker’s feature film debut. The movie filmed in western Massachusetts.
    4. JANET PLANET: Zoe Ziegler and Julianne Nicholson play mother-and-daughter in playwright Annie Baker’s feature film debut. The movie filmed in western Massachusetts.
  • Izaac Wang and Shirley Chen in writer-director Sean Wang's "Didi." (Focus Features/Talking Fish Pictures)
    5. DIDI: Izaac Wang and Shirley Chen in writer-director Sean Wang’s coming-of-age dramedy. (Focus Features/Talking Fish Pictures)
  • 6. FANCY DANCE: Isabel Deroy-Olson and Lily Gladstone co-star in a drama about a woman who goes missing from an Oklahoma reservation. Streaming on Apple TV+
    6. FANCY DANCE: Isabel Deroy-Olson and Lily Gladstone co-star in a drama about a woman who goes missing from an Oklahoma reservation. Streaming on Apple TV+
  • 7. PROBLEMISTA: JulioTorres pulls triple duty as writer, director and star of a surrealist comedy, with Tilda Swinton at her unhinged best. (A24)
    7. PROBLEMISTA: Julio Torres pulls triple duty as writer, director and star of a surrealist comedy, with Tilda Swinton at her unhinged best. (A24)
  • 8. MONOLITH: Lily Sullivan plays a reporter investigating a supernatural mystery in this thriller that is based on a podcast. (Well Go Entertainment USA)
    8. MONOLITH: Lily Sullivan plays a reporter investigating a supernatural mystery. (Well Go Entertainment USA)
  • Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in "Challengers."
    9. CHALLENGERS: Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O’Connor are caught in a power struggle of love, lust and tennis. (MGM)
  • From left, Samson Selim stars as Ali, Vladimir Tintor as Toni, Anamaria Marinca as Dita, and Sara Klimoska as Elena in director Goran Stolevski’s "Housekeeping for Beginners." (Viktor Irvin Ivanov/Focus Features)
    10. HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINEERS: Samson Selim, Vladimir Tintor, Anamaria Marinca and Sara Klimoska star as a ragtag family in director Goran Stolevski’s atypical domestic drama. (Viktor Irvin Ivanov/Focus Features)
  • A young filmmaker (Odessa Young) recounts the story of making her first feature in Zia Anger’s "My First Film."
    11. MY FIRST FILM: A young filmmaker (Odessa Young) recounts the story of making her debut feature.
  • Saoirse Ronan as Rona in "The Outrun," (Yunus Roy Imer/Sony Pictures Classic)
    12. THE OUTRUN: Saoirse Ronan plays a woman struggling to stay sober. (Yunus Roy Imer/Sony Pictures Classic)
  • Jurnee Smollett in a scene from "We Grown Now." (Photo from Participant and Sony Pictures Classics)
    13. WE GROWN NOW: Tragedy tests the friendship of two childhood friends in Minhal Baig’s tender coming-of-age drama co-starring Jurnee Smollett. (Photo from Participant and Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Vera Drew in a scene from "The People's Joker." (Photo from Altered Innocence)
    14. THE PEOPLE’S JOKER: Vera Drew’s superhero parody is about a trans clown who fights Batman is flat-out funny and profoundly moving. (Photo from Altered Innocence)
  • Mikey Madison as Ani and Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan in "Anora." (Photo from Neon)
    15. ANORA: Mikey Madison delivers a tour de force as a stripper named Ani whose whirlwind romance with the son of a Russian oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn) unravels in spectacular fashion. (Photo from Neon)
  • Théodore Pellerin in Sophie Dupuis’s drama "Solo." (Music Box Films)
    16. SOLO: Théodore Pellerin stars in Sophie Dupuis’s drag queen drama about the highs and lows of falling in love. (Music Box Films)
  • 17. NICKEL BOYS: Brandon Wilson plays a boy navigating the brutal realities of a Jim Crow-era reform school in Florida in director RaMell Ross’s powerful adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.
    17. NICKEL BOYS: Brandon Wilson plays a boy navigating the brutal realities of a Jim Crow-era reform school in Florida in director RaMell Ross’s powerful adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.
  • 18. EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS: André Holland and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor lead a top-notch cast in Titus Kaphar’s autobiographical drama. (Roadside Attractions)
  • 19. I’M STILL HERE: Set in Brazil during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in 1971, this adaptation of Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir follows Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres, terrific) as she reinvents herself after her family endures a violent act by the government, uncovering a hidden chapter of Brazil’s history—and Brazil’s entry for the 97th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category. (Alile Onawale/Sony Pictures Classics)
    19. I’M STILL HERE: Set in Brazil during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in 1971, this adaptation of Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir follows Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres, terrific) as she reinvents herself after her family endures a violent act by the government, uncovering a hidden chapter of Brazil’s history—and Brazil’s entry for the 97th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category. (Alile Onawale/Sony Pictures Classics)
  • 20. HER BODY: Natálie Císarovská chronicles the life of Czech high diver Andrea Absolonová, whose career-ending injury leads her to reinvent herself as a porn star.