Dylan Meyer’s directorial debut is a silly misadventure through Los Angeles with two charismatic and infectious lead performances.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest feature sees the prolific director taking on the jidaigeki film with careful precision and a moral center that resonates today.

Bob Colaers’ sophomore feature delivers bloody carnage through an apartment complex, but fails to differentiate itself from its contemporaries.

Childhood friends mix pranks with an alien abduction to mostly entertaining effect in Kwok Ka-hei and Jack Lee Chun-kit’s silly extraterrestrial mystery.

Taichi Kimura’s sophomore feature is an incisive condemnation of patriarchal values with an endearing protagonist fighting to raise her child alone.

Kōji Shiraishi’s latest horror feature builds upon his legacy of unsettling mysteries with an impressive combination of atmospheric tension and paranoia-driven investigation.

Sophie Yang and Veronica Bassetto’s feature debut has its heart in the right place, but falls short of the important conversation it’s trying to instigate.

Robby Rackleff and Alan Resnick’s surrealist comedy is an unsettling and evocative portrait of a violent society threatened by the appearance of an infectious force.

Han Chang-lok presents a bleak portrait of teenage malaise intersecting with social media, filtered through an immersive and propulsive DIY presentation.

Makoto Ueda’s feature directorial debut is a trippy, endearing adventure tightly wound into an astounding puzzle framework.

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem is a colossal achievement in adaptation and blockbuster filmmaking.

Amos Why and Frankie Chung’s love letter to restaurants, lost love, and the vulnerability of cooking is an underwhelming but still comforting blanket of culinary cinema.