It would be entirely appropriate to enshrine Greta Gerwig as the indie-darling of now. By 29 she’s already worked with Whit Stillman, Joe Swanberg and Ti West, and now, in her best collaboration yet, Noah Baumbach on Frances Ha.

Rare is the film that strives for rhapsodic innovation and achieves it without fail, but Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas strives for such singularity, and mostly achieves it, in his newest effort Post Tenebras Lux (After Darkness, Light).

Love is the ostensible subject of Ulrich Seidl’s first installment in a trilogy about contemporary paradisal pursuits, Paradise: Love.

Sun Don’t Shine, Amy Seimetz‘s debut feature as writer/director, is an often discomfiting yet gorgeously impressionistic film. Beginning with a roadside fight between couple Leo (Kentucker Audley) and Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil), the template is established. Intimations are cryptic and exposition is spare, but the destination for the couple is a dark one, foreshadowed as Leo reveals to Crystal that on their trip to the Everglades, “We’ve got to take a route that don’t make sense.”

Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder is the story of Neil and Marina, played by Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko, two strangers who meet and fall in love while Neil is on a trip to France. They have a romance, it sours, Marina moves back to France and eventually Neil goes back to France to try and get her back. Apologies for the spoilers, but the events of the story aren’t really of consequence in this film, and that’s to its detriment.

Henry Alex Rubin’s Disconnect has a lot to say about the way our society connects with one another in this digital age. While there’s none of it that hasn’t been said before, the film pulls it off with committed performances from its actors.

“Art shouldn’t offer answers, only questions,” filmmaker Michael Haneke stated in a recent interview. Not exactly a surprising declaration from a provocateur of his stature, but it is an imperative that modern cinema largely lacks. Shane Carruth, however, is the embodiment of Haneke’s edict.

Derek Cianfrance’s (Blue Valentine) second feature is a sweeping, far-fetched drama set in the seedy underbelly of Schenectady, NY: a place surprisingly packed with dirty cops, dirty politicians, and dirty carnies.

Eyebrows understandably furled when boundary-subverting director Harmony Korine announced that his newest feature, Spring Breakers, would star bubblegum Disney princesses Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.