A deeper-than-it-looks French-English romantic comedy about a Paris bookseller with literary ambitions who attends a Jane Austen retreat and finds herself dropped into her own modern-day love triangle.  Witty and escapist, it questions how fiction shapes our expectations about love.  From Katie Walsh at the Los Angeles Times: “There’s a salve-like quality to Jane Austen

Set in Italy’s stunning isle of Capri, the follow-up to the 2018 mystery-thriller about a single mom named Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) and a glamorous PR exec named Emily who’s living a double life (Blake Lively). This time, the two are reunited for Emily’s wedding to a wealthy Italian businessman, and the plots, the fashions, and

A high-adrenaline spectacle with a redemption arc, Brad Pitt stars as race car driver who crashed badly in the 90s, but gets drawn back in to the sport by a former teammate (Javier Bardem) to save his struggling F1 team by mentoring a rookie (Damson Idris) — forcing him to stare down his traumas. Directed

She was a Hollywood “bombshell” in the 50s, but Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident when her daughter — the actress Mariska Hargitay — was just three years old. The Law & Order star steps behind the camera to direct this deeply personal documentary that unravels like a mystery as it reframes her mother’s

Apple’s new psychological thriller asks a big question: how far should a mother go to protect their adult child?  Julianne Moore stars as the mother whose troubled daughter (Sydney Sweeney) shows up covered in blood, leaving her to unravel what happened and what to do about it in this tense and atmospheric feature from Mare

Dakota Johnson stars as a professional New York matchmaker who finds herself torn between a wealthy suitor (Pedro Pascal) and her struggling actor ex (Chris Evans) in this conversation-driving sociological drama that takes aim at the transactional approach to modern love. Written and directed by breakout filmmaker Celine Song, who was nominated for two Oscars

You’ll find a lot of Deep Cover titles on Amazon, but make sure you land on this one: a star-powered new action comedy about an improv teacher in London and her two students, who are hired by a cop to infiltrate the London mob and end up in the inner circle of the kingpin. The

A pitch-dark comedic thriller that was named “Best Film of 2024” by the French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Misericordia blends a small-town homecoming with an absurdist murder mystery — all while dropping us into the gorgeously-rendered world of the director’s hometown of director’s native Occitanie, a popular French tourist attraction. From The Irish Times‘

An absurdly funny indie adventure comedy starring Chloe Sevigny as an on-camera personality, Magic Farm follow an “edgy” Brooklyn-based documentary crew that travels to Argentina for a story about a local musician, only to end up in the wrong country attempting to “trend spot” as they exploit the locals.  It’s a sly satire from Amalia

In the wake of the surprisingly well-received 2022 film Prey, co-director Dan Trachtenberg took on this animated anthology version of the franchise, with each chapter following a powerful warrior during a different point in time—a Viking, a ninja, and a WWII pilot—as they fall prey to the monstrous beasts. It’s far from an indie, of course,