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Prime Video’s “The Devil’s Mouth” sends five college friends into the sort of vacation attraction that should probably require several waivers and a working satellite phone. Sara, Max, James, Adrienne and Greg arrive in Thailand hoping to celebrate the end of one chapter in their lives. Their plans lead them to a remote cave system,…
“Soulm8te” places an intimate crisis inside a world of immaculate technology. David’s home is calm enough to pass for a showroom, ULTIMA Robotix sells connection in the language of product design, and Sara moves through every room as though she was engineered to belong there. The surprise is that this sleek, American-looking nightmare was built…
Hanna Bergholm’s “Nightborn” takes a familiar dream and slowly turns it feral. Saga, a Finnish woman, returns with her British husband Jon to the isolated house where she grew up, hoping the move will give them enough space to start a family. After she gives birth, however, Saga becomes convinced that something is wrong with…
The Little Girl Who Didn’t Exist turns a child’s new friendship into a disturbing mystery. Mel Brodsky is curious about Sara, the playmate who has become close to her daughter, until every adult she approaches insists that Sara is imaginary. Mel begins finding signs that the girl is real, leading her toward a far darker…
Some Hallmark romances use Europe as a postcard. Toast to Italy makes the journey part of the courtship. Jenny, an American doctor with Italian roots, travels overseas before her sister’s wedding to recover the final bottle of her family’s “Love Wine,” an heirloom associated with good fortune for newlyweds. The mission becomes a race when…
The Becky films have never been interested in giving their heroine a quiet recovery. In The Last Temptation of Becky, the franchise sends Lulu Wilson’s teenage avenger beyond the cabins and small-town extremists of the first two movies. Becky is now a CIA field agent living in New York, and her latest assignment takes her…
Peter Parker’s latest fresh start begins at his loneliest point. In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the world still has no memory of Peter, leaving him to fight crime full-time while MJ and Ned move forward without him. Director Destin Daniel Cretton, working from a screenplay by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, has built the fourth…
Todd Field’s Tár makes the world of classical music look less like a sanctuary than a sealed chamber where every polished surface reflects power back at its owner. Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a celebrated conductor preparing to record Mahler’s Fifth Symphony while professional allegations and private compromises begin closing in around her. Berlin’s stern…
Love in Slow Motion knows the oldest romantic-comedy trick in the book: the person you overlook becomes impossible to ignore the moment someone else claims them. Released in Arabic as Ahebak Min Zaman, the film follows Haya, a chronically single woman who has always regarded Jawad as her dependable best friend. When he announces his…
Hasta el fin del mundo begins where most love stories would ordinarily conclude: with two people who have already lost each other. Manuel and Esmeralda meet aboard a train in Spain in 1975, only for an accident to throw them into an intense romance. Their time together is cut short by the violence and political…
Ancestral Beasts begins with a retreat that goes badly wrong. Elyse, a Red River Métis woman whose work and family life are unravelling, leaves the city for her aunt’s isolated home, hoping distance will bring some peace. Instead, she discovers a presence beneath the house, one that grows more threatening as her conflict with her…
Set in 1862, No Rest for the Wicked begins as a forbidden romance before drifting into darker, supernatural territory. Baldur, a young fisherman living in an isolated Faroese community, has his life unsettled by Helge, a rugged Danish whaler who awakens feelings neither man can safely acknowledge. When tragedy tears them apart, their love returns…
