Genre: Fantasy

All You Can Eat Buddha
Directed by Ian Lagarde
Cinematographer Ian Lagarde (Vic + Flo Saw a Bear) makes his directorial debut with this surreal fable centering on a …

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, the Restless One
Directed by Miguel Gomes
“An up-to-the minute rethinking of what it means to make a political film today, Gomes’s shape-shifting paean to the art …

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Directed by Miguel Gomes
“The middle section of Gomes’s monumental yet light-footed magnum opus shifts into a more subdued and melancholic register. But within …

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
Directed by Miguel Gomes
“Gomes’s sui generis epic concludes with arguably its most eccentric—and most enthralling—installment. Scheherazade escapes the king for an interlude of …

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by Benh Zeitlin
A deeply felt exploration of race and class in post-Katrina America filtered through the soaring fantasies and downcast reality of …

Beauty and the Beast
Directed by Jean Cocteau
A film of immense visual beauty and unparalleled imagination, Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast was the first of many …

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Directed by Stephen Herek
High school slackers Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) need to ace their history presentation in order to avoid …

Black Magic
Directed by George Ratoff
Meteoric rise and precipitous fall—hallmarks of Welles’ work, especially in the 1940s—are given the magical treatment in Black Magic, an …

Bluebeard
Directed by Catherine Breillat
French provocateur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, The Last Mistress, Sleeping Beauty) has built a career out of bringing complex and …

Body
Directed by Margorzata Szumowska
“Balancing bleakness and mirth in equal measure, Body chronicles three haunted souls in Warsaw: an icy coroner who suspects his …

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui
Before it was a beloved TV show, Fran Rubel Kuzui directed Joss Whedon’s original feature script that follows reluctant Chosen …

Cemetery of Splendour
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A hypnotic cinematic dreamscape unfolds in Thai master Weerasethakul’s new film, in which soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are …