Actor Jesse Eisenberg blossoms into a first-rank director with this new classic about mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin in an extraordinary performance) who reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. “It’s a frequently laugh-out-loud funny odd couple road trip movie whose emotional wallop sneaks up and floors you.” – Hollywood Reporter “It’s a delight and a revelation — a deft, funny, heady, beautifully staged ramble of a road movie.” – Variety

Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winner film firmly positions him as a significant modern auteur. It begins as a sexually explicit Pretty Woman. Ani (Mikey Madison), a lap-dancer, is not above providing extra services if the price is right. Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the spoiled son of a Russian oligarch, can’t get enough of her. Their impromptu marriage sends their relationship into wildly unpredictable territory. Nothing will prepare you for Madison’s pedal-to-the metal comic intensity and the raw street cred she brings to every scene. Baker (The Florida Project) continues to display his mastery in depicting people leading unconventional lives on the margins of society. With Anora, he adds outrageous slapstick comedy and a pulse-pounding crime story to his repertoire. (dir. Sean Baker, U.S., 2024, 138m) “There are few filmmakers as open-hearted, as stone-soup inventive, as Baker is. This playful yet emotionally fine-grained film is his best yet.” – Time “Baker has created nothing short of pure movie magic— it will make you giggle and inexplicably tear up on repeat (sometimes within the same sequence).” – RogerEbert.com

Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival. The African kingdom of Dahomey, which ruled over its region until the turn of the 20th century, saw hundreds of its splendid royal artifacts plundered by French colonial troops in its waning days. Now, as 26 of these treasures are set to return to their homeland in the Republic of Benin—filmmaker Mati Diop documents their voyage back. As with her layered, supernaturally tinged Atlantics, Diop transforms this rich subject matter into an examination of ownership and exhibition, and features a wide range of perspectives – including those of the artifacts themselves as they sail back to their rightful home. Dahomey brilliantly negotiates a lost past and an unsure present. (dir. Mati Diop, Benin-France-Senegal, 2024, 68 min.) “Dahomey is a striking, stirring example of the poetry that can result when the dead and the dispossessed speak to and through the living.” — Variety

The most classic of all holiday classics. James Stewart is the turmoiled, small-town dreamer George Bailey, whose dark thoughts on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel. (dir. Frank Capra, U.S., 1941, 130 min.) “Some movies, even good ones, should only be seen once. When we know how they turn out, they've surrendered their mystery and appeal. Other movies can be viewed an indefinite number of times. This is one of those ageless movies, like Casablanca or The Third Man, that improves with age.” Roger Ebert

Academy Award-nominated director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball, Foxcatcher) groundbreaking doc “changed movies forever, “says the British Film Institute. Remastered for its 25th anniversary, The Cruise is an ode to a bygone era and an epic, intimate portrait of a personality that can only exist in New York City. As the city’s most eccentric tour guide, Timothy “Speed” Levitch sails the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, waxing philosophical and delivering psychedelic poetry. (dir. Bennett Miller, U.S. 1998, 76m)

Movie accompanied by live cast! This fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock 'n' roll tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad and Janet after they stumble upon the lair of transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Apoca-Lips Cast have been making The Rocky Horror Picture Experience for nearly half the lifespan of the original film released in the summer of 1975. Initially the film flopped but it quickly became a cult classic sensation, especially when audiences began interacting with the film at the Waverly in NYC using props, callbacks, and mimicking the characters. From this grew a worldwide shadowcast phenomena, where dedicated fans add gimmicks, parody themes, and more. (dir. Jim Sharman, UK, 1975, 100 min.) “The material inspires affection, given its knowing pastiche of everything from Universal horrors to '50s grade-Z sci-fi, and a shamelessly hedonistic, fiercely independent sensibility that must have seemed a welcome relief from the mainstream bombast of other '70s musicals.” Time Out London

When employees at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island voted to unionize in 2022, it was celebrated as a major victory for organized labor. A year earlier, filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing embedded themselves with the workers and the organizers; in their engrossing new film, “Union,” they show how the vote’s outcome was hardly assured. The workers face daunting math and an anti-union campaign from inside, where the sometimes-tense footage, the filmmakers have said, was shot by the workers themselves. (dir. Brett Story & Stephen Maing, U.S., 2024, 80 min.) Amazon Labor Union organizers Brima Sylla and Kathleen “Kat” Cole will be on hand for a post-film talkback. “Union is a rare thing — a documentary that is undeniably political in its focus while being artful and observational in its approach.” — New York Magazine

A story of courage amidst a challenging landscape for women’s health and autonomy. Due to Texas’s restrictive abortion laws, Amanda Zurawski was refused an emergency procedure during a troubled pregnancy, precipitating life-threatening septic shock. When Zurawski took the bold step of fighting the laws in court, she teamed up with attorney Molly Duane and 21 other women. Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s documentary profiles mothers, wives, sisters, daughters who have been denied the health care that their doctors would have routinely provided had Roe been in force. (dir. Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, U.S., 2024,100 min.) “Zurawski v Texas wisely argues that abortion access — currently supported by Democrats, and denied by the Republican Party — shouldn’t be a left or right issue, but a bipartisan matter.” Variety