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Hope has great characters, inventive ideas, an incredible imagination, a palpable intensity, and numerous other aspects that make it one of the best of the year.

Theo, a young man struggling to come to terms with his past, sits in his car unable to leave — spinning excuses and stories about why to stay. His older sister, Zoey, has other ideas. She manoeuvres her way into his heart in an attempt to help him move on. Playful yet full of love, Ensconced is a story about the power of family, puns, sultanas, and the Titanic. And in no way is it about scones.
Hope has great characters, inventive ideas, an incredible imagination, a palpable intensity, and numerous other aspects that make it one of the best of the year.
The human experience is described through the eyes of a marginalized outsider, neither judgmental nor invested, just an observant donkey.
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing is a gritty, darkly funny thrill ride through 1998 New York, with Austin Butler delivering a raw, magnetic turn as Hank Thompson—a washed-up ex-ballplayer turned bartender whose life implodes after cat-sitting for his punk neighbor drags him into a violent underworld of gangsters, crooked cops, and chaos. Brutal yet unexpectedly hilarious, the film blends noir grit with midnight-movie absurdity, proving Aronofsky can reinvent himself while Butler cements his status as a true movie star.
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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A complex, realistic, and loving mother-daughter relationship is at the heart of this story about Black pageants and the fight for a better future.