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Sci-fi

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Despite juggling a few too many characters and Marvel callbacks, this is ultimately—if not spectacularly—still an exhilarating web-slinging adventure.

Sheep in the Box

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest offering could hardly feel less Hollywood in either spirit or execution.

Disclosure Day

Another reminder that no one can make emotionally stimulating popcorn flicks like Steven Spielberg.

Project Hail Mary

A rollicking, emotionally charged journey that captures the wonder, danger, and unexpected friendships one might find while exploring the cosmos.

Bugonia

A largely straightforward thriller with only a few examples of Yorgos Lanthimos’s abstract weirdness.

Tron: Ares

The standouts here are its neon-lit fights, digital worlds, and the moody score by Nine Inch Nails.

Happyend

This film overwhelms with its unexpected poignance, its truthfulness, and the imagination it uses to examine its teenage characters.

M3GAN 2.0

Still delightfully unnerving, M3GAN hasn’t lost her edge—and she’s even gained some extra wit.

The Visitor

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