A quick guide to the nominated films and why you should watch them.

A young Army veteran struggles with her memories and guilt in this heartfelt independent drama.

This film tells the story of the college players who defeated the 1992 U.S. men’s basketball team, filled with N.B.A. All-Stars, during a scrimmage before...

A gruesome horror comedy adapted from a Stephen King story mixes nihilism, fatherhood and carnage.

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security...

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

A light as air romantic comedy about a cheap villa in a fictional town capitalizes on the “Emily in Paris” model, with pasta.

Humans love to watch other humans, whether it’s movies by Frederick Wiseman or vertical videos on your phone. In a way, we’re all documentarians.

In this documentary, the artist depicts what a more just and beautiful world might look like.

Renate Reinsve stars in a drama about an insular community that is intermittently interesting.