They/Them (2022)

They/Them (2022)

[4] A group of LGBTQ teens are dropped off for a week-long stay at a conversion therapy camp where a masked slasher is on the loose. Before the body count begins, the program leader (Footloose's Kevin Bacon) promises no holy-rolling…
Swallowed (2022)

Swallowed (2022)

[8] Two friends (Cooper Koch and Jose Colon) swallow bagged drugs to smuggle them over the Canadian border for some quick cash. But when they're assaulted at a rest stop, one of the bags bursts and creates a medical emergency…
Nosferatu (2024)

Nosferatu (2024)

[9] With this re-telling of Dracula and Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) re-solidifies his position as the most exciting artist working in cinema today. Eggers casts Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult as a Ellen and Thomas Hutter,…
The Holdovers (2023)

The Holdovers (2023)

[9] One of the surest ways a film can win my heart is by letting me into the lives of characters aching for healing who achieve genuine, emotional human connection. It's why I love films like Pump Up the Volume,…
Oppenheimer (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

[6] Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later) stars as the physicist credited with inventing the atomic bomb in this sprawling, rapid-paced, three-hour Best Picture Academy Award winner from director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception). The first hour of Oppenheimer focuses on the…
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

[6] Writer/director James Cameron (Titanic, Aliens) returns to the world of Pandora thirteen years after the first Avatar film broke all box office records. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) now lives completely among the planet's tall, blue natives - the Na'vi.…
Murina (2021)

Murina (2021)

[5] In Croatia, a teenage girl (Gracija Filipovic) suffers her rigid, controlling father (Leon Lucev) until one of his old friends (Once Were Warriors' Cliff Curtis) visits and inspires her to seek a better life. At first, she tries to…
All of Us Strangers (2023)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

[10] Most films are designed with universal appeal to attract the widest possible audience. But some of the most powerful films you'll ever see are the ones -- the very rare few -- written and directed with such specificity and…
65 (2023)

65 (2023)

[6] Adam Driver stars as an astronaut from another world who crash-lands on Earth 65 million years ago. Along with a young girl (Ariana Greenblatt) who speaks another language, he must pass through a prehistoric valley full of dangers big…
Funny Pages (2022)

Funny Pages (2022)

[5] A teenaged underground cartoonist (Daniel Zolghadri) seeks the company of bizarre, questionable characters in the hopes it might inspire his work. He shuns his parents and moves in with a couple of middle-aged men who watch old cartoons in…