20 Best Movies Of 2026 (So Far)
16. Nouvelle Vague
In this stirring black-and-white companion piece to last year's Blue Moon, Richard Linklater serves up a passionate ode to the birth of the French New Wave, by taking an in-depth look at the making of Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 masterpiece Breathless.
A thrilling deep dive into the making of a new movie, one that changed the trajectory of cinema forever, Linklater's latest doesn't attempt to replicate the style or feeling of the era he's portraying so much as he injects the screen with his clear admiration and respect for the real-life people and events he's bringing to life.
With a compelling cast of stars in his corner - including newcomer Guillaume Marbeck as Godard and Zoey Deutch as the iconic Jean Seberg - Nouvelle Vague offers great empathy in detailing the film's behind-the-scenes drama, and does so with style and romance to spare.
Watch this one alongside Blue Moon, and it's impossible not to consider Linklater to be at the peak of his filmmaking powers.