“Two Prosecutors,” set in Stalin’s Russia, captures the slow-moving crawl of bureaucratic malevolence by adapting a story by the dissident author and physicist Georgy Demidov, who spent 14 years in the gulag. Loznitsa said his film is “not a reflection of the past. It’s a reflection of the present.”

Eddington, Ari Aster’s Covid cowboy movie, is a challenging watch which is destined to end up as one of the most divisive films of the year. No one is making movies quite like Aster today – or taking some of the risks that he does,