Movies

A fairy-tale-within-a-frame-story about true love, swordfights, and revenge. Witty, self-aware, and surprisingly tender. The kind of film where every line has become a quotation, but it still works because it earns every one of them.

A New England prep school, an unconventional English teacher, and the idea that poetry is dangerous because it makes you feel things. Robin Williams's most quietly powerful performance. Inspired the split-flap typography on this site's homepage.

Nolan's most divisive film. A spy thriller that operates on inverted entropy, where bullets travel backward and a temporal pincer movement is a real strategic concept. Watch it twice. Then watch it again.

Three hours on the physicist who built the bomb, structured around two hearings decades apart. Cillian Murphy disappears into the role. The Trinity test sequence is the most controlled moment of dread put to film in years.

Bong Joon-ho's first film since Parasite. Robert Pattinson plays an 'Expendable' — a disposable worker who is cloned fresh each time he dies on a deep-space colonization mission. Darkly funny and pointedly critical of labor, disposability, and who gets to decide whose life is replaceable.

Brad Pitt as a driver pulled out of retirement to partner a rookie at a failing grid team, shot on real race weekends with Lewis Hamilton producing. Kosinski does the same thing here he did in Top Gun: Maverick — put the camera inside the machine and let the speed be the argument. The highest-grossing sports film ever made.

Nolan's first film since Oppenheimer, and the first feature shot entirely on IMAX 70mm. Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Zendaya as Athena, Tom Holland as Telemachus. Homer is the one story structure Nolan hasn't needed to invent a gimmick for — the ten-year detour home is already told out of order.

Adaptation of Andy Weir's novel about a lone astronaut who wakes up on a mission to save the sun, with no memory of how he got there. Ryan Gosling attached to star. The book is unhinged in the best way and the trailer has been promising.

Curry Barker's feature debut, premiered at TIFF and picked up by Focus Features. A music store employee buys a supernatural toy and wishes his friend into loving him, which goes exactly as badly as that sentence suggests. Made for $750,000 by someone who came up through horror shorts online.

A24's adaptation of Kane Parsons' viral web series, directed by Parsons himself — he started making them at 16. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a furniture store owner who finds an endless liminal dimension in his basement, with Renate Reinsve as the therapist who goes looking. A24 reportedly built thirty thousand square feet of the place rather than render it.