Nat and Mina stay overnight in a hospital when they accompany the person who is run over by their car. Dr. Aziz places them in Ward 13, a long-closed ward that contains many mysteries. At midnight, Nat hears a knocking sound on the bathroom floor, and she tells her boyfriend, Devon, about it. The next day, Devon comes to the hospital and makes a joke by knocking on the door from the inside, something that is forbidden. Devon dies and the ghost of the crawling nurse, drags Nat into the bathroom gutter.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the most human movie of the year. It is based on the 2010 short of the same name that follows a big-hearted, little shell named Marcel as he navigates through life in a human-sized world.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
An indie production of a romantic drama with a country-western feel meant to explore lost love.
Rare in the days of franchise sequels and indie horror films that dominate the screen in 2026, Netflix’s latest original release, Remarkably Bright Creatures, is a feel-good family movie that leaves nothing to be desired except tissues. Starring Sally Field and Lewis Pullman as two cleaners at a small-town aquarium, Remarkably Bright Creatures reminds viewers that humans are social animals whose strength comes not from our intelligence or our opposable thumbs, but from each other.
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
