TRAIN DREAMS by Clint Bentley | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: This film quite literally stirred my soul and made me feel more alive. More than an intimate meditation of the meaning of America, it’s a stunning conduit for our shared humanity across time and space.
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: The line between liberation and the psychological prison of vengeful rage is thin and jagged, and no film has ever plumbed the harrowing depths of such uncertainty like this Iranian masterpiece (whose mere existence is a triumphant protest to authoritarian oppression).
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER by Paul Thomas Anderson | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: It’s a (the?) master filmmaker at the very top of his game. While uncannily prescient in its satire of today’s America, this modern-day epic also explosively taps into some of the most timeless aspects of the human condition.
RESURRECTION by Bi Gan | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: Bi Gan is perhaps the world’s most audacious filmmaker working today. By way of Guizhou, China, Bi doesn’t just make movies; he invites us to luxuriate in his all-consuming dreamscape experiences.
MARTY SUPREME by Josh Safdie | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: Josh Safdie’s solo debut is the most unrelentingly entertaining film of the year, fueled by Timothee Chalamet’s overwhelming screen charisma.
NO OTHER CHOICE by Park Chan-wook | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: Every few years—after Parasite in 2019 and Squid Game in 2021—we need the Koreans to help us process the soul-crushing ravages of late-stage capitalism in the most twisted and darkly comic ways possible.
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Mona Fastvold | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: It’s the best musical of the year and perhaps the most unexpected musical of all-time. Whose absolutely bonkers idea was it to turn the story of the founder of an 18th-century Christian sect into a movie musical? Bravo.
WEAPONS by Zach Cregger | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: Former sketch comedian Zach Cregger’s sophomore feature is one of the scariest films of the year and yet also maybe the funniest. And somehow, even as it strains to tie together its allegorical elements, it works.
FRIENDSHIP by Andrew DeYoung | Trailer
WATCH THIS BECAUSE: Though neither writer nor director, this is a Tim Robinson movie through and through: a virtuoso entry in his ongoing exploration of the fragile psyche of the modern American male. He is, truly, a defining voice of our generation.
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