Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn, a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama's raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society's...

A teenage boy and his cousin decide to leave Senegal for the promise of Europe despite facing the harsh realities of the desert to the harrowing experiences in Libyan detention centers and the risks of the open sea.