Redemption (2025)

This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.

Mona Fastvold’s nineteenth century lesbian romance is emotionally charged, restrained, and poetic without feeling forced.

This coming-of-age Mexican movie is about a group of school children who fulfill their dreams.

Poor Black characters are usually surrounded by crime and violence, while poor White characters are portrayed as noble and hard-working.

An animated reboot based on the book of the same name, with differences from the live-action movie of the same name.

Sorry to Bother You ultimately speaks to the unfair advantages that the country’s power structures award to those with the resources to control others, as Lift’s easy access to the media allows his opinion to be the only one that matters in the eyes of the unsuspecting and easily impressed public. Moreover, it reveals the extent to which the American Dream has any true validity. It postulates how the promise of success and fulfillment as promoted by the American Dream more often than not leads to the undoing of the individual. Interestingly, in its revealing of the American Dream as merely a facade, Sorry to Bother You wisely questions whether or not anything can really be done to undo a system that has been accepted and in action for centuries.