Home follows the unlikely trio of a young human girl, Gratuity aka Tip (Rihanna), her chubby cat, and a little fugitive alien called Oh (Jim Parsons). The three must team up together to stop the alien group of the Boov from world domination, and find Tip’s mom along the way. Though Tip doesn’t wholly trust Oh, he’s a friendly alien just looking to fit in.
Although the plot and characters will be familiar to any fan of kaiju cinema, the striking Nordic visuals and the titular menace’s ability to blend in with the landscape, allows for some impressively original twists along the way. Although Troll could have easily descended into near-parody, Uthaug steers clear of smug self-awareness and instead delivers, and with a sequel arriving later in 2025, now is the perfect time to revisit one of the freshest takes on the genre in years. When Mary Smith moves to her great aunt’s estate in rural England, she finds herself unspeakably bored—until she finds a rare flower that blooms only once every seven years, coveted by witches for its magical properties. Soon, she’s transported to Endor College, an academy for witches hidden in the clouds—but the warm welcome she receives from the fanciful faculty hides sinister secrets, and a dark ambition on the part of headmistress Madam Mumblechook that puts Mary’s only friend, Peter, in danger. Charting the life of José Hernández, this biopic—based on Hernández’s own book—mixes the aspirational with the inspirational as it follows its central figure’s rise from, in his own words, migrant farm worker to the first Mexican-American astronaut. Michael Peña is in fine form as Hernández, painting a picture of a man almost myopically driven to reach space, no matter the cost, while Rosa Salazar impresses as his wife Adela, refusing to fade into the background even as she puts her own dreams on pause for José to chase the stars.
Adrien Brody earned his second Best Actor Oscar for this historical epic from director Brady Corbet about László Tóth (Brody), a Bauhaus-trained architect who emigrates to America after surviving the Buchenwald concentration camp. Tóth settles in the Philadelphia area and must rebuild his life by working menial jobs for little pay. A wealthy industrialist, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), learns about Tóth’s past and commissions him to design a huge project. He also helps to speed up the immigration of Tóth’s wife, Erzsébet (Felicity Jones), whom he has not seen since his incarceration.
Nora’s feelings are complicated, and Lee’s masterful, elliptical performance beautifully conveys the depth and ambiguity of her character’s emotions. That’s not to say that Netflix didn’t add any good movies to watch this month. On the contrary, there are more good films to stream than ever — you just have to dig a little deeper in the streamer’s library to find them. I was just beginning to expand my movie watching habits when Once came out, so I checked out the Irish-made indie from John Carney that starred real-life musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as two people who meet in Dublin and find they have a special connection through music.
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He just poses as one, working with the New Orleans Police Department to trap people looking to hire a hit man. It’s a role he’s surprisingly good at, but when Madison (Adria Arjona) looks to have her abusive husband “dealt” with, Gary begins to fall for her—and the consequences could be fatal for real. Will Ferrell likely needs no introduction, but as former head writer of Saturday Night Live, Harper Steele is more accustomed to life behind the camera. Joining the hit show in the same week back in 1995, the pair struck up a decades-long friendship—so when Harper wrote to tell Ferrell she was transitioning to live as a woman, it was a big change for them both.
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Anderson was a dark horse Oscar contender for her performance (she did Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations). While that didn’t materialize, it was still one of the stories of the year to see the former Baywatch star reemerge in a big way. Jamie Lee Curtis co-stars in the movie, and also received wide praise and nominations for her work.
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Amid obstacles in the form of Anna’s deeply religious family and a local community that distrusts her, Lib’s watch descends into a tense, terrifying experience. Based on a book of the same name by Emma Donoghue, The Wonder is a beautiful yet bleakly shot period piece that explores the all-too-mortal horrors that unquestioning religious fervor and family secrets can wreak. Directed by George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), this biopic explores the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. A much-needed spotlight on an overlooked but pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement, elevated by a central performance from a spectacularly well-cast Colman Domingo as Rustin himself. This gleefully entertaining giant monster movie abandons tearing up Tokyo or New York in favor of director Roar Uthaug’s (2018’s Tomb Raider) native Norway, with a titanic troll stomping its way toward Oslo after being roused by a drilling operation.
Two escapees from a UFO death cult return years later seeking answers, only to fall into a vortex of all-new mysteries. Teenage hoodlums band together to save their South London tower block from an alien invasion in the movie that insta-launched John Boyega as a movie star. Jackie Chan’s daring stunt work reached new levels of insanity in this franchise-starter about a cop framed for murder – see his climatic three-storey freefall at a shopping mall. Easily the greatest zen-surfing, bankrobbing, parachuteless skydiving, beach-football-playing, double-meatball-sub-eating, pitbull-tossing action-thriller ever made.
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a high-powered CEO with a beautiful family, but she puts all of that at risk when she enters into a submissive affair with her 21-year-old intern, Samuel (Harris Dickinson). With all the power at her disposal, Samuel simply assumes (correctly) that Romy wants to feel powerless. Those are just two of the must-see movies on Paramount+ right now that you can find below. Babygirl premieres on Max on April 25; a UK streaming release is not confirmed. Well, the answer is kinda obvious, but the journey getting there is mostly a blast. One of Gladiator II’s highlights is the brutal sword-on-sword action between Mescal and Pedro Pascal’s General Acacius, who relishes playing a villain as charismatic and lethal as his Oberyn in Game of Thrones.
Linda and Chad manga quiz are way in over their heads, and they may face a punishment that’s worse than prison for their crimes. He’s pushing 80, he’s estranged from his family and his finances are a mess. Desperate for cash, he agrees to become a drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
We wouldn’t expect another popcorn-tossing phenomenon, but Disney needs a win to wash out the bitter aftertaste of the Snow White disaster, and this’ll likely do’er. In the 15 years since the last Final Destination movie, we’ve seen a demon clown deliver a chainsaw colonoscopy and a college co-ed get turned into a human pretzel, yet the uproarious joy the series brought to its convoluted kills has never quite been matched. From Total Recall to Showgirls and back to Basic Instinct, director Paul Verhoeven has a track record almost unmatched in modern cinema. Set in a bleak vision of Detroit overrun with crime, it follows a cop (Peter Weller) who gets fatally wounded and turned into, yes, a robot cop, who you might think is good at fighting crime, but of course is not.
Agathe flirts with her co-worker and best friend, Felix (Pablo Paoly), a chummy Casanova, then gets a chance to realize her dreams when she receives an artist residency at the English Jane Austen Foundation. She immediately encounters her Mr. Darcy, Oliver (Charlie Anson), a cancelled Oxford don and Austen descendant who despises the writing of his famous relative. And so begins Agathe’s reawakening, pulled between two men, pushed to romantic action. There is a ball, a seductive dance that reveals more than words can, a chance encounter, a sexual misadventure, and a final flood of romantic emotion so contagious that Austen lovers will find the film irresistible. One of India’s biggest films of all time, RRR (or Rise, Roar, Revolt) redefines the notion of cinematic spectacle.
The plot isn’t anything new, but Havoc is worth watching just for the stunts alone. The movie was directed by Gareth Evans, who made the modern action classics The Raid and Gangs of London, so there are a lot of gunshots, explosions and face-smashing fights. Hell, there’s even a chase scene where someone throws a washing machine onto a pursuing cop car. Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) aren’t the brightest people around, but they’re ambitious. When they find a mysterious disc belonging to a CIA analyst at their gym, they decide to blackmail him for money. But their attempts fail spectacularly, and soon, the Russian embassy and the CIA become involved.