Laggies: Lynn Shelton’s Film Blends a Coming-of-Age Story With a Quarter-Life Crisis
Laggies is a fantastic movie, filled with down-to-earth characters, transcendent themes, and witty comedy

Laggies is a fantastic movie, filled with down-to-earth characters, transcendent themes, and witty comedy
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
Cursed is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel, and is a retelling of the Arthurian legend with a twist. Instead of King Arthur gaining Excalibur, a teenage sorceress named Nimue (Katherine Langford) does. Her people — the Fey — are being hunted down, and so Nimue will do whatever it takes to save them.
"Come Play" was entertaining and had some great ideas about how to scare children away from playing with facial recognition settings.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
2026 ranks highest in Oscars history for its representation of minorities in all categories, and that’s definitely something to be celebrated.