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I Love Boosters

From left, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige and Keke Palmer in I Love Boosters (Neon)

It is satirical absurdism cranked up to at least 15, introducing more and more genre-bending gimmicks per scene yet never winking once as the ridiculousness piles up.

Kontinental ’25

Kontinental ’25 shows a gentler side of Radu Jude’s cynical worldview and tackles issues of existential morality in an almost level-headed manner.

Yes

It is hard to make films about current events so soon after they have occurred.

Dracula

The cinematic equivalent of a lice-ridden raccoon and a scaly iguana fed into a fast-action blender and force-fed warm to the viewer over 170 minutes.

One Battle After Another

Previous Paul Thomas Anderson films are remarkable for the way they elude easy definition, but here, everything is exactly as it seems.

The Visitor

Bruce LaBruce’s reworking of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 Teorema is sex-positive, celebratory, and feverishly explicit.

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint

A gutsy, quiet movie with a tinge of melancholy to go with its offbeat premise.

Boys Go to Jupiter; Mars; The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer | Tribeca Festival 2024

A whimsical musical and an almost psychedelic trip to the suburbs of Florida; a science-fiction farce loaded with foul language, explicit violence, and sexual references; and an amalgam of noir and black comedy.

The People’s Joker

The brainchild of longtime comedian and TV editor Vera Drew, which began as a dare to reedit Todd Phillips’s Joker.