The 15 Films You Should Add to Your Watchlist This Season
These are the buzziest movies to look out for through the rest of the year.
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The Age of Jennifer’s Body
Diablo Cody’s movie has been reclaimed as a cult classic—and its destructive teenaged protagonist deserves reappraisal too.
James Earl Jones Was Never Just One Thing
The actor, who died yesterday, was a towering figure whose work spanned genres, mediums, and generations.
How Resilient Are Jewish American Traditions?
Between the Temples tackles the anxieties around cultural assimilation—and finds continuity among very different generations.
A Horror Movie About Befriending the Rich and Powerful
Blink Twice, Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, is a stylish thriller about being intoxicated by wealth.
A Bloodier, More Mediocre The Crow
After years of gritty comic-book movies, a reboot of the gothic ’90s antihero lands with a thud.
What Gena Rowlands Knew About Marriage
The late actor mined the many contradictions of romantic love in her work, and never more brilliantly than in A Woman Under the Influence.
Someone Is Watching. Is It God, or Your Boss?
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation captured anxieties about the emerging surveillance state—and how it makes workers past and present feel at their job.
Humans Are Killable. The Alien Franchise Isn’t.
Alien: Romulus hits some recognizable beats, but the pleasures of its central concept remain undiminished.
A Movie That Understands the 2000s-Internet Generation
Dìdi is a crowd-pleasing portrait of adolescent angst set in the heyday of Myspace and AIM.