Best Movies of 2024: Best New Movies to Watch Now

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Welcome to our guide of the Best Movies of 2024, featuring every Certified Fresh movie as they come in week by week!

November and December additions so far: Conclave. Juror #2. Blitz. Emilia Pérez. Wicked. Caddo Lake. Maria. Nickel Boys. Flow. Queer. Joy. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The Last Showgirl. The Girl with the Needle. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Nosferatu.

October additions: MadS. Memoir of a Snail. Smile 2. V/H/S/Beyond. I’ll Be Right There. Things Will Be Different. It’s What’s Inside. Saturday Night. The End We Start From. The Beautiful Game. Exhibiting Forgiveness. Piece by Piece. We Live in Time. Terrifier 3. Rumours. The Apprentice. The Goldman Case.

Spooky season started early in September with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Sleep and Speak No Evil were there with the assist. We kicked off our guide to the 50 best new action movies with the Netflix’s Rebel Ridge. And the synths had their day with The Wild Robot (way up there on the DreamWorks Animation guide) and Transformers One (ditto for this on on the Transformers list).

August staved off the typical late-summer doldrums with Alien: Romulus, the first Alien movie to be marked Certified Fresh and not directed by Ridley Scott in some nearly 40-odd years. Sing Sing is keeping Colman Domingo in the awards contender discussion post-Rustin. And more from horror and likewise genre efforts with Blink Twice, Cuckoo, The Substance, and Strange Darling.

July was blockbuster month worthy of the summer season mantle, as Twisters carved its warpath, and fast in its wake Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel’s sole MCU offering for the year. MaXXXine, Longlegs, and Oddity made a case for one-word horror titles. And in the limited release spectrum, Dìdi is an instant new Asian-American classic, while Hindi-langague Kill thrilled audiences. Those who missed the Hindi-language thriller of course will have their eternal chances to catch it on streaming, or even until the American remake comes out next year-ish.

Let’s talk about the June wide releases that went Certified Fresh. First, there’s Pixar’s Inside Out 2, which revitalized the box office and brought back the studio in a big, big way. The Bikeriders is a crime drama starring Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and Jodie Comer. It was directed by Jeff Nichols, who has unassumingly amassed one of the most impressive filmographies of any working director; all six of his directed movies are Certified Fresh. And let’s make some noise for A Quiet Place: Day One, which is now 3-for-3, a true horror rarity outside of George Romero‘s original Dead trilogy.

May brought the start of the summer movie season, launching with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt‘s The Fall Guy. The following weeks saw Mad Max sequel Furiosa, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which built upon the reboot trilogy of the 2010s (how to monkey-see the series in order, if you’re so inclined). Glen Powell‘s Hit Man saw some limited theatrical play before dropping on Netflix, where it’ll be permanently one of the streamer’s 100 best-reviewed movies. Viggo Mortensen directed his second feature, western The Dead Don’t Hurt, while Pamela Adlon made her directorial debut with Babes. In a Violent Nature took viewers on a (very) slow ride from a slasher villain’s point of view. And check out Daisy Ridley’s crowd-pleasing Young Woman and the Sea.

Horror had an unexpectedly strong month in April, with Universal monster movie Abigail, Nic Cage action-hybrid Arcadian, The First Omen reviving the dormant franchise, and indies I Saw the TV Glow, Blackout, and Infested. A24 had their first #1 box office-debuting film with the heated Civil War. Zendaya continued her Certified Fresh streak with Challengers, and Dev Patel made a major directorial debut with Monkey Man, which had its own long journey to go from being dumped on Netflix to theatrical major studio distribution. Nowhere Special becomes the highest-rated movie of the year.

In March: Love Lies Bleeding and Problemista, both from A24. One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins. Ordinary Angels, starring Hilary Swank. In horror, we got You’ll Never Find Me and Late Night with the Devil, the latter which also tops our best horror of 2024 list. Dialogue-free animation Robot Dreams and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World jockeying for the top spot here.

And what about February? Dune pretty good, thanks for asking. Part Two went Certified Fresh within an hour after the reviews embargo lifted on February 21st. With it outclassing the first Dune, we took a look at 20 sequels that got better Tomatometer scores than their originals. Otherwise, things got freaky with horror film Stopmotion and the comic zaniness of Hundreds of Beavers taking the crown for the best-reviewed of the year.

We didn’t have a blockbuster January like we did in 2023‘s, when genre surprises M3GAN and Plane went Certified Fresh. But Daisy Ridley got her post-Skywalker win with Sometimes I Think About Dying. Mads Mikkelsen re-teamed with his A Royal Affair director Nikolaj Arcel to find The Promised Land. With The Crime Is Mine, Francois Ozon is getting career-best reviews, and his 10th Certified Fresh film over the past decade-and-change. And Netflix scored with The Kitchen, Orion and the Dark, and Good Grief.

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Synopsis: The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who... [More]

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Synopsis: When single father John is given only a few months left to live, he tries to find the perfect family... [More]

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Synopsis: In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance; but her sexual, rebellious awakening... [More]

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Synopsis: Broke and depressed, Ray (John Magaro) is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with... [More]

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Synopsis: On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral... [More]

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Synopsis: When melancholic construction worker Dan (Keith Kupferer) finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose... [More]

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Synopsis: Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin's own grandmother, THELMA puts a clever spin on movies like MISSION:... [More]

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Synopsis: Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a... [More]

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Synopsis: From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 105116%

Synopsis: DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a... [More]

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Synopsis: In India Donaldson's insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with... [More]

#12

Adjusted Score: 100850%

Synopsis: In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 100920%

Synopsis: BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito's courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99645%

Synopsis: November 1975, Paris. The appeal hearing of Jewish far-left activist Pierre Goldman is set to begin. Sentenced to life imprisonment... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99411%

Synopsis: Aisha charts the experiences of a young Nigerian woman as she seeks international protection in Ireland. Caught in limbo for... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99406%

Synopsis: 1941, sisters Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future.... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99404%

Synopsis: 'Molli and Max in the Future' is a sci-fi romantic comedy about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 112301%

Synopsis: The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot--ROZZUM unit 7134, "Roz" for short -- that is shipwrecked on an... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 109895%

Synopsis: Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated talk show 'Night Owls' that has long been a trusted companion to... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 103639%

Synopsis: In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) -- a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero -- sets out... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 101998%

Synopsis: A slapstick epic about a frostbitten battle between JEAN KAYAK and DIABOLICAL BEAVERS--hundreds of them--who stand between him and survival.... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 102085%

Synopsis: A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a... [More]

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Synopsis: In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for... [More]

#24

Adjusted Score: 100570%

Synopsis: From Golden Bear winner Radu Jude, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD takes a fierce... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 100478%

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 100268%

Synopsis: From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced), CROSSING is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99667%

Synopsis: The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her... [More]

#28

Adjusted Score: 114519%

Synopsis: Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey... [More]

#29

Adjusted Score: 108230%

Synopsis: Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother.... [More]

#30

Adjusted Score: 103535%

Synopsis: In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what... [More]

#31

Adjusted Score: 102339%

Synopsis: Since her sister's disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the... [More]

#32

Adjusted Score: 102976%

Synopsis: When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 102976%

Synopsis: Terry Richmond enters the town of Shelby Springs on a simple but urgent mission-- post bail for his cousin and... [More]

#34

Adjusted Score: 101496%

Synopsis: In this acclaimed film which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Garrone presents a... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99451%

Synopsis: The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99271%

Synopsis: While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 98918%

Synopsis: Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what... [More]

#38

Adjusted Score: 98358%

Synopsis: Based on writer, director and star Rudy Mancuso, Música is a coming-of-age love story that follows an aspiring creator with... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 97887%

Synopsis: When the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside,... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 97887%

Synopsis: A coming-of-age "traumedy" that follows 16-year-old Lindy (Maddie Ziegler) who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition, MRKH syndrome. The... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 111745%

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater's sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell as strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit... [More]

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Synopsis: In Strange Darling, nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 103235%

Synopsis: When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99803%

Synopsis: Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 99317%

Synopsis: SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking... [More]

#46

Adjusted Score: 99107%

Synopsis: Tarrell (André Holland) is an admired American painter who lives with his wife, singer Aisha (Andra Day), and their young... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 97969%

Synopsis: Kaleb is about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He's fighting with his sister over an inheritance and... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 96525%

Synopsis: After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter's precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 96466%

Synopsis: Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them,... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 111400%

Synopsis: From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 101542%

Synopsis: Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli,... [More]

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Synopsis: In 1970s Australia, Grace's life is troubled by misfortune and loss. After their mother dies during pregnancy, she and her... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 96790%

Synopsis: Jess is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border to escape her past. On her tail... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 96188%

Synopsis: Winner of the prestigious Camera d’Or for best first film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95881%

Synopsis: Madeleine, 92 years old, calls a taxi to take her to the retirement home where she will be living. Charles,... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95887%

Synopsis: The Monk And The Gun captures the wonder and disruption as Bhutan becomes one of the world's youngest democracies. Known... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95827%

Synopsis: In 'Chasing Chasing Amy', filmmaker Sav Rodgers goes on a journey of self-discovery while making a documentary on the development... [More]

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Synopsis: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish.... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 110338%

Synopsis: CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events -- selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes)... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 101515%

Synopsis: "Juror #2" follows family man Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 98786%

Synopsis: Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy)... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 97293%

Synopsis: In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 98017%

Synopsis: With his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Candyman) has a place among London's celebrated drag artists. One night... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 97244%

Synopsis: Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof's award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 96451%

Synopsis: In 1992 Chicago, as Michael Jordan solidifies himself as a champion, a story of two young legends in their own... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 96150%

Synopsis: Set in contemporary Madrid, an aging filmmaker named Miguel Garay is called upon to recount his memories of working on... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95609%

Synopsis: Chile, 1901. Three horsemen embark on an expedition, tasked with securing a wealthy landowner's vast property. Accompanying a reckless British... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95308%

Synopsis: Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95175%

Synopsis: A century after the debut of Alfred Hitchcock's first feature, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 94767%

Synopsis: From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we're born into... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 94525%

Synopsis: In a small, sleepy village in the Basque Country, a sculptor named Ane and her three children arrive at her... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 94938%

Synopsis: Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer's place to try a new pill.... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 122413%

Synopsis: "Dune: Part Two" will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 102047%

Synopsis: Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 96317%

Synopsis: The thing Orion fears the most is the dark. When the embodiment of his worst fear pays a visit, Dark... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95271%

Synopsis: Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 95408%

Synopsis: A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; TOUCH follows one widower's emotional journey to find his... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 94790%

Synopsis: Dylan (Charlie Plummer), a soft-spoken 21-year-old construction worker, is the de facto father figure to his little brother and works... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 94507%

Synopsis: Siblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico,... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 93412%

Synopsis: Attempting to surpass his father's legacy, a reclusive neuroscientist becomes entangled in his experiment, pitting 10 fragments of his consciousness... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 112108%

Synopsis: The little voices inside Riley's head know her inside and out--but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar's Inside... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 107491%

Synopsis: Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 100406%

Synopsis: An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of... [More]

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Synopsis: Rudger is a boy no one can see, imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger,... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 94757%

Synopsis: In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 94090%

Synopsis: A talented stop-motion animator becomes consumed by the grotesque world of her horrifying creations -- with deadly results.... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 93248%

Synopsis: Travis Hurley (Simon Baker), a detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 93084%

Synopsis: 12-year-old Mildred's life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 118104%

Synopsis: Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 112227%

Synopsis: Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 102013%

Synopsis: In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 97662%

Synopsis: Based on the book If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, ONE LIFE tells... [More]

#93

Adjusted Score: 95920%

Synopsis: For over a year, a series of bold daylight bank robberies and armored car heists leaves law enforcement baffled and... [More]

#94

Adjusted Score: 95437%

Synopsis: From Alejandro Monteverde, award-winning director of "Sound of Freedom", comes the powerful epic of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 93932%

Synopsis: Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 92790%

Synopsis: London, 2040 -- rising house prices, computerized labor and eradication of the Welfare State has turned the city into a... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 93124%

Synopsis: A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE is a dark fairy tale about... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 92358%

Synopsis: A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection,... [More]

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