Leaves (2024)

Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.

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.

Based on a true story, this sports movie is centered around a college football player.

Acutely funny and always well-intentioned, Last Week Tonight has a lot of heart for a satirical-news program.

Based on a true story, when his beloved dog goes missing, the owner embarks on an incredible search with his parents to find him.