A dark, psychological thriller that skewers hustle culture and online marketplaces, Cloud tells the story of a young Japanese man who quits his steady factory job to build a profitable reselling business, flipping discounted items at steep markups. As he becomes more successful, disgruntled customers and competitors begin to track him down, culminating in a
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy leads this intense drama about a chaotic day in the life of a British reform school on the brink of closure and the headmaster who attempts to protect his students as he battles his own addiction and emotional breakdown. From The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw: “A drama suffused with gonzo energy and
A white-knuckle true story about the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California — still the deadliest wildfire in US history — The Lost Bus follows a school teacher (America Ferrera) and bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) as they team up and risk everything to save 22 children from the flames, facing their own flaws and
Dovetailing with the release of Swift’s much ballyhooed new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” this first-of-its-kind theatrical event managed to shutdown AMC’s app and site for a time the day it was announced. Unlike Swift’s Eras concert film, which broke box office records, The Official Release Party is more of a preamble, combining a
Mark Wahlberg’s darkly comedic mob thriller follows a professional thief whose horse track heist goes off the rails, forcing him to find a new crew and plot a higher stakes score to avenge the traitors who set him up. A slick ensemble co-starring Tony Shalhoub, Keegan-Michael Key, LaKeith Stanfield, Gretchen Mol, and Rosa Salazar, it’s
The third and final film in the franchise that began with cross-generational appointment television in the UK in 2010, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale takes us up to the 1930s and follows Lady Mary as she lands in a public scandal and the larger Crawley family as they face financial strain and succession questions. Ideally,
An intimate, sympathetic portrait of the life of New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Jacinda Ahearn, who made history in 2017 when she catapulted into the country’s power seat at 37 against the odds and gave birth not long after. rom Robert Abele at the Los Angeles Times: “In the fleet, pacey manner of the editing,
An absurdist dramedy about the clash of two worlds, Universal Language entertains as much as it motivates. Beyond the madness lies an urgent plea for unity, an appeal that resonates with people hoping for a better, more harmonious future.
A surefire Oscar contender, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a former radical whose partner disappeared sixteen years earlier, leaving him with a now teenage daughter who is in the crosshairs of a corrupt military commander (Sean Penn). It’s an epic action thriller directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood), inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland
A relationship satire about two couples whose friendship unravels after a divorce, when it becomes clear that the couple that’s still together has an open marriage, teeing up all new jealousies and farcical confrontations in this conversation starter that blends cringe and lowbrow comedy with sharp observations about modern romance. Dakota Johnson stars along with