France’s official submission to next year’s Academy Awards is this bold, chaotic musical drama about a lawyer (Zoe Saldana) who helps a cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) leave the business and his wife (Selena Gomez) and kids to become the woman he has always imagined himself to be. One of the buzziest films to come
The Watercooler’s pick from Sundance is finally available to stream, a clever comedy about a free-spirited 18-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella) who drinks a hallucinogenic mushroom tea and comes face-to-face with her older, wiser 38-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Elliott’s “old ass” serves up just the kind of advice and warnings she (and we) need — especially
Spanning two decades and told in four chapters, the intimate indie drama follows two sisters from adolescence to adulthood as they visit their volatile yet vulnerable father in New Mexico, and learn to process all of the complexities of the man and the places they call home. From the Los Angeles Times‘ Tim Grierson: “It
Billed as “the greatest survival story ever told,” National Geographic and the award-winning filmmakers behind Free Solo intertwine two stories over 100 years apart: The story of how explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton kept his crew of 27 men alive for over a year after losing this ship, Endurance, in a pack of Antarctic ice stuck
A surreal comedy about the iconic, surreal Salvador Dalí, the film follows a French journalist as she attempts to interview “Dalí” — who is portrayed by multiple actors in various over the top incarnations. There are dream sequences and tributes to the man’s work, and inventive sequences that defy explanation — but ensure that you
A long-awaited biopic starring Kate Winslet as the unlikely WWII photographer Lee Miller, who shot some of the first images of the Blitz and concentration camps before being told women were not allowed to accompany troopers. She was left to capture the powerful, lesser known images and stories from some of the war before staging
The dramatized true story about an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who becomes a contestant on The Dating Game — paired up with a man who turns out to be a serial killer. Directed by and starring Anna Kendrick, it’s an original take on a chilling story told in a taut and captivating way,
A meditation on finding beauty in the ordinary and dignity in manual labor, Perfect Days serves as a lesson as well as a blueprint on how to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. It underscores the importance of finding solace in solitude and happiness from the simple act of living.
A thematic departure from the previous Poirot movies, A Haunting in Venice drops you into a Gothic post-war Italy and keeps you guessing in a film that non-horror fans can embrace.
A stirring, intimate documentary that reveals the lesser known story about one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story brought our writer to tears. As Felipe Patterson describes it, it’s a story that manages to be inspiring and heartbreaking, and “a testament to the human capacity to overcome the insurmountable.” Read his