Love & Mercy

Unobtrusively directed, hair-raisingly watchable, and aurally vivid, Love & Mercy is a sincere, uncomplicated journey of sanity, healing, and the fecklessness of the California dream; a deeply satisfying pop biopic with good vibrations. Sensitive and profound, it captures with few missteps the visceral power of the artist.

Meek’s Cutoff

Arduous, dispassionate, believable, and bracingly original, Meek’s Cutoff is an ambitious feat of visual storytelling that’s alive to both its landscape and the people who inhabit it. Meticulous and immersive, like history in three dimensions, it’s a highly textured chronicle of encountering the terror and vastness of the unknown, as witnessed through the lives of its hard-bitten protagonists.

12 Years a Slave

Excruciatingly brutal yet undeniably powerful, 12 Years a Slave is a soul-splintering descent into hell, a harrowing journey through the inner workings of an institution that robbed people of freedom, family, and dignity.