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This true-life courtroom drama stole the show at Cannes in 2023, when there were suddenly so many excellent French films set in court: Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, the Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall, and Cédric Kahn’s account of the Paris trial of Pierre Goldman, a left-wing fanatic. American audiences have had to wait until now to see it, but it’s worth seeking out. Goldman is the kind of intellectual radical France specializes in—and is portrayed with such charm by Arieh Worthalter, glaring, gesticulating, and speaking from the podium. No, he insists, he didn’t kill two women during a Paris pharmacy robbery as he’s been charged, and he won’t make his trial more dignified by cooperating more with his defense. Instead, he rages against bourgeois norms and unsettles the viewer as much as he brings the film to life. The film is all talk and debate—limited to the trial—but it is still very engaging.—TA

As a bright, imaginative kid obsessed with music, water, and outer space, Pharrell Williams did pretty much whatever he wanted—so a film about his life and career wouldn’t have been made in the usual way. Instead, Piece by Piece, a new film from Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet From Stardom), casts Williams, his family, and a long list of friends and collaborators as animated Lego pieces, combining familiar documentary elements (spoken-person interviews; Steadicam footage) with flashes of pure fantasy. The result—technically intended for adults, but clearly kid-friendly—is intentionally strange. (“Keep an open mind,” Lego Williams urges a skeptical Lego Neville early in the film.) But its pitch is pretty straightforward: This is the astonishing true story of a quirky kid and his boundless, even compulsive imagination—and a compelling antidote to the scourge of the deadly dullness of music biopics and documentaries. If Piece by Piece doesn’t balance its (often dazzling) visual style and narrative structure (Williams has lived more than either he or Neville knows what to do with), then so be it. This film is built to be different. —MM

It’s hard to remember the last time I saw a film as unflinching as Coralie Fargeat’s fearless follow-up to the colorful action thriller Revenge—the mind-bending tale of an actress (a career-best Demi Moore) thought to be past her prime who injects her body with a mysterious substance that promises to unleash a more perfect version of herself. The scene where she falls to the bathroom floor, her spine splits, and a younger self (a sweet and then demonic Margaret Qualley) emerges from within her. What happens next inspired gasps, cheers, laughter, and horrified screams alike at the film’s Cannes premiere—and it deservedly walked away from the festival with the best screenplay award. —Radhika Seth

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