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A funny, visually audacious fashion-industry heist satire powered by Keke Palmer, Demi Moore and fearless comic invention. Its later expansion into additional labour, sci-fi and side-story material weakens the caper’s momentum, but the film’s imagination and political bite make the messiness worth engaging with.
A strong, tense directorial debut whose young cast makes its rehabilitation-over-incarceration argument feel personal and urgent, even if a slightly pat final act softens its hardest truths.
A searing, performance-led drama whose most devastating material belongs to Léa Seydoux. Its wider moral inquiry has substance, but the parallel investigation storyline distracts from Lucy’s more compelling crisis.
A feverish, sharply acted media satire that becomes a nightmare of performance and exploitation. Pattinson is magnetic, Gisondo supplies the emotional wound, and the film’s focus on its host is compelling even if its view of the audience is limited.
A strange, tender fairy-tale romance whose central performances and expressive wicker design make its social critique land, even when uneven pacing and heavy-handed commentary blunt its playful momentum.
A richly acted, deliberately paced drama that turns a meeting between two couples into a searching examination of class, love, labour and the moral complications of representation. Its symbolic density requires attention, but its restraint and emotional precision reward it.
A fiercely visceral comic-book horror film whose transformations and central performance outclass its thin treatment of identity, beauty and visible difference.
A difficult, uneven comeback whose extraordinary final act delivers the shock and invention missing from much of its slow, dated buildup.
Jessica Chastain’s dual performance and a few gruesome visual ideas make Other Mommy intermittently entertaining, but its frantic shifts between horror, comedy and family drama prevent the threat from feeling coherent or truly frightening.
A thoughtful, charming fable about grief, companionship and the burdens placed on devotion. Klara’s perspective is compelling, but the film’s comic, tragic and disturbing elements do not always form a cohesive whole.
A warmly familiar Button House reunion that uses possession, a threatened estate and a broad comic plot to give its returning ghosts fresh things to do.
A worthwhile streaming thriller with a tense real-time setup, compelling moral pressure and some sharper relationship themes. Familiar tropes, overwritten dialogue and a convenient final escalation keep it from fully landing.
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