There are multiple points of entry for discovering the work of filmmaker Jonathan Glazer . Perhaps you were seduced by the darkly comedic hijinks of his feature debut, Sexy Beast, or the sensuous, alien beauty of his comeback film after nearly a decade, 2013’s Under the Skin . Perhaps it was The Zone of Interest, his horrifying, Auschwitz-set masterpiece—or the powerful, widely praised speech he gave upon receiving an Oscar for the film, in which he condemned the war in Gaza.

For writer and editor Claire Marie Healy , it was the eerie, psychologically charged Birth —in which Nicole Kidman plays an affluent Manhattanite who begins a love affair with a 10-year-old boy she believes is a reincarnation of her late husband—that affected her most powerfully. “It’s one of my favorit

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