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Oppenheimer

2023 • Directed by Christopher Nolan

A dense, propulsive portrait of ambition, guilt, and world-altering technology that feels uncomfortably close to our present moment with AI.

Barbie

2023 • Directed by Greta Gerwig

A bright, self-aware comedy that turns a toy into a lens for thinking about gender, consumerism, and who gets to write the story.

Poor Things

2023 • Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

A strange, gorgeous fable about agency and becoming, asking what it means to build a self from scratch in a world that wants to script you.

Dune: Part Two

2024 • Directed by Denis Villeneuve

An operatic sci‑fi epic about prophecy, power, and exploitation, framing messianic narratives with the kind of skepticism that fits our age of techno‑utopianism.

The Zone of Interest

2023 • Directed by Jonathan Glazer

A chilling study of ordinary life beside atrocity, about how people compartmentalize horror when the system rewards not looking too closely.

Aftersun

2022 • Directed by Charlotte Wells

A quiet, fragmented memory of a father and daughter on vacation that captures how we reconstruct the past and the people we’ve lost.

Anatomy of a Fall

2023 • Directed by Justine Triet

A courtroom drama that doubles as an epistemology puzzle, asking how much we can ever really know about another person—or even ourselves.

Past Lives

2023 • Directed by Celine Song

A gentle, piercing story about migration, alternate timelines, and the lives we don’t live, told with the restraint of someone who trusts silence.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022 • Directed by Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

A maximalist multiverse comedy that still finds room for tenderness, using absurdity to talk about regret, obligation, and choosing to care anyway.

Arrival

2016 • Directed by Denis Villeneuve

A meditative first‑contact story about language, time, and grief that feels like a thought experiment written in light.

Her

2013 • Directed by Spike Jonze

An intimate near‑future romance between a man and an operating system that anticipates today’s AI companions and asks what counts as a real relationship.

The Social Network

2010 • Directed by David Fincher

A finely tuned origin myth for the social web, showing how a handful of bruised egos and asymmetric incentives can reshape the public sphere.