Cottage Grove (2023)

The film illustrates the life of a single who struggles to provide an ideal childhood for her two daughters.

Madres takes place in the 70’s following a Hispanic married couple who move to a migrant farming community. Diana, who is pregnant, starts to become suspicious of their new environment after she and the women around her develop strange symptoms. Could it be a curse, a sickness, or something else?

Sonic is a pretty generic buddy comedy with a light dusting of eccentricity.

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

Paul Thomas Anderson blends tragedy, comedy in 2025 epic, "One Battle After Another."