Trap is a fun ride whose cards are on the table from the get-go, but that doesn’t make it any less tense or fun. A father-daughter flick mixed with a heist film, Trap keeps you guessing in a vintage Shyamalan way.

Chestnut allows viewers to experience the depths of those turbulent years through the eyes of Annie. It’s a beautifully melancholic look at growing up and all that goes along with it.

Make Me Famous is a breakdown of the art world to get to its core: a celebration of the awe that art can inspire in an individual.

Twisters is a good, old-fashioned blockbuster. It’s the sort of heart-racing, tear-jerking fare that earns itself a place among the greats.

Longlegs is a nightmare, but one that it’s easy to wake up from. 

Dandelion shows the battle to pursue the thing you love and how going home can show how far you’ve come.

Even with the narrative aspects that could have benefitted from tightening up, there’s still something exciting about a film like Kinds of Kindness being heavily promoted and available to casual theatergoers.

The A-Frame is a trippy, multi-dimensional sci-fi flick with its gory heart on its sleeve.

The Watchers makes it clear that Ishana Shyamalan has an eye of her own, and perhaps her own Sixth Sense is on the horizon.

Life, Inside Out 2 argues, is what we make it, because of the good things we experience and in spite of the bad.

Tiger Stripes leans fully into the ravenous feeling of being a teenager and all of the gory details that come with it.

While The Damned is fairly paint-by-numbers in terms of the expectations of the genre, it shows off first-time feature director Palsson’s keen eye for sinister stories.

Fancy Dance is quiet in its depiction of love and family, but steadfast in its belief of the power of both.

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is a high-concept, humorous look at the miracles that exist in life and death, and an urgent attempt to have its audience embrace the present moment and everything that it is.

Hummingbirds is vibrant and hopeful for the future, in spite of the past.

The Bikeriders is Easy Rider by way of Goodfellas. It’s a crime drama mixed with a period piece of a time not too unlike our own.

Queen of the Deuce is not your average Holocaust story. In fact, it’s not an average story in any regard. It’s the sort of mind-boggling series of events that, had it been written as a book or a movie, would’ve been called too outrageous to believe. Yet the story of Chelly Wilson is true.

My Best Friend is a gorgeously executed examination of intimacy.

Brooklyn 45 feels like it was conceptualized to be a Twilight Zone episode with just a little more blood and gore.