Marty Supreme
Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) is a gifted ping-pong player — talented enough to dream of representing the United States on the international stage. There’s just one problem: he doesn’t have the money to get there. Stuck working at his uncle’s shoe store and dismissed by those around him, Marty turns to increasingly questionable schemes to fund his ambitions.

When he finally makes it to a major tournament, things don’t go as planned. Instead of triumph, Marty finds himself wandering, hustling, scheming, and chasing the next opportunity. As we follow his messy journey, we’re pulled into the mind of a fast-talking dreamer whose ambition pushes him further and further into morally murky territory.

Directed by Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme is a frenetic character study about ambition, ego, and the price of chasing greatness — powered, of course, by Chalamet’s magnetic, career-defining performance.  
 
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Sentimental Value
What happens when your estranged father, a once-revered film auteur, suddenly reappears and announces he wants to shoot his comeback film in your family home?

That’s the dilemma facing Nora (Renate Reinsve) when her father Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård) returns to her life. He begs her to play a role inspired by her own grandmother, but when Nora refuses, he casts Hollywood superstar Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning) instead. With Rachel’s involvement comes funding, and so begins an uneasy journey that forces father and daughter to confront their unresolved past.

Directed by Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value is a moving drama about family, memory, and reconciliation. The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, before going on to win the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, alongside multiple nominations.

No Other Choice 
The job market is tough. For Yoo Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), it becomes a matter of survival.

After being laid off from his longtime position as a manager at a paper company, Man-su struggles to find work and support his family. As desperation mounts, he comes to a chilling conclusion: if he wants a job, he may have to eliminate the competition — literally!

Directed by Park Chan-wook and based on the novel The Ax, this movie blends dark comedy and thriller elements into a biting satire about economic anxiety and moral compromise. As Man-su’s actions grow more extreme, the film forces us to confront the same question he faces: did he truly have no other choice?

Hamnet  
Jessie Buckley delivers a powerful, Oscar-winning performance as Agnes Hathaway, William Shakespeare’s wife, in Hamnet, a moving historical drama.

Directed by Chloé Zhao and based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, the film shifts focus away from the bard himself to shine the spotlight on Agnes’ story — a woman holding her family together while her husband pursues his career in London. But when their 11-year-old son Hamnet dies, Agnes is left grappling with overwhelming sadness and guilt.

Rather than a traditional biopic or a love story, Hamnet becomes a quiet, devastating portrait of love, loss, and resilience — one that ultimately explores how grief can shape art.

One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson delivers his most explosive film yet with this high-octane action thriller led by Leonardo DiCaprio as ‘Ghetto’ Pat Calhoun, a former revolutionary forced to confront the wreckage of his past. Years earlier, Pat and fellow rebel Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) led the French 75, a radical group fighting injustice until they were hunted down by ruthless military man Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn). 

Sixteen years later, the revolution is dead, Perfidia is gone, and Pat is washed up and barely sober. When Steven resurfaces as part of a secretive racist cabal and abducts Pat’s teenage daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti), Pat teams up with her karate teacher, Sensei Sergio (Benicio del Toro), for one final, furious showdown with the villain. 

Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, Anderson’s 10th film became his highest-grossing to date (over US$200 million at the box office) and dominated the 2026 Golden Globe Awards with four wins — including Best Director — and nine nominations. Critics hailed it as a relentless thrill ride, an epic with both action and smarts.

Bugonia
Five-time Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos delivers one of his most gripping and accessible films to date with Bugonia, a nervy, genre-blurring thriller laced with savage satire and unexpected emotional bite. One of modern cinema’s most provocative auteurs, Lanthimos plunges viewers into a climate of paranoia, daring us to question what really happens behind the closed doors of corporate and political influence. Every scene hums with unease. 

This wildly entertaining psychological thriller follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men (played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who abduct a powerful tech CEO (Emma Stone), convinced she is an alien infiltrator bent on humanity’s destruction. What begins as an act of paranoid extremism soon spirals into a tense battle of wills and control — a descent that is as darkly comic as it is deeply discomfiting. Balancing absurdist humour with razor-sharp social commentary, the film examines truth, belief, and the dangers of misinformation in a world where fear spreads faster than facts. 

Anchoring the film is a fearless, transformative performance from Stone, reuniting with Lanthimos for their fourth feature-length collaboration following The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness (and fifth collaboration if you include the short film Bleat). Undergoing a striking physical transformation — including shaving her head — Stone strips her character of glamour, exposing a raw vulnerability beneath the corporate armour. It’s a bold turn that sees her tap into a colder, harsher emotional register, as her character shifts between menace and fragility.

Weapons
Kids may be little, but in Weapons, they’re absolutely terrifying. In the quiet town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania, 17 elementary schoolers vanish overnight, after mysteriously waking at 2.17 a.m., sprinting Naruto-style into the darkness, and never returning.

Only one child, Alex (Cary Christopher), remains — and every adult wants answers. Among them: his shaken teacher Justine (Julia Garner), the frazzled principal (Benedict Wong), grief-stricken father Archer (Josh Brolin), small-town cop Paul (Alden Ehrenreich), and even local burglar James (Austin Abrams). What made the kids run? And who — or what — is really pulling the strings?

Director Zach Cregger (Barbarian) weaves horror, mystery, and a surprising streak of dark comedy through a shifting, Rashomon-like narrative. Fans of twisty, multi-perspective thrillers like Vantage Point or Hoodwinked! will relish decoding every clue, right up to the film’s bloody, jaw-dropping reveal.

Sinners
American history gets a supernatural twist as Black Panther director Ryan Coogler sinks his fangs into the horror genre, reuniting with Michael B. Jordan for a bold, blues-soaked vampire tale.

Set in 1932 Mississippi, the film stars Jordan in the dual roles of twin brothers Smoke and Stack. The siblings return home after years in the Chicago Mafia to open a juke joint, only to find their opening night gate-crashed by sharp-toothed, blood-guzzling undead creatures led by Jack O’Connell.

Critics raved: Rolling Stone hailed Coogler for “swinging wide beyond franchise fare”, while Variety called it “the first Oscar movie of 2025”. With its hypnotic style, electric performances, and Ludwig Göransson’s sultry blues score, Sinners bites hard and lingers.

Warfare
Co-directed by Civil War’s Alex Garland and Navy SEAL veteran Ray Mendoza, Warfare drops viewers into an inspired-by-true-events, boots-on-the-ground siege in Ramadi. Its real-time unfolding lends the film a heightened sense of immersion.

Based on Mendoza’s experiences during the Iraq War, this gritty re-enactment follows Alpha One platoon as they take over and defend a house in Ramadi from enemy combatants. Rising stars Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, and Will Poulter play members of the platoon.

Critics have hailed Warfare as one of A24’s grittiest triumphs: The Guardian called it “visceral filmmaking that makes you smell the dust and fear”. Relentless, suspenseful, and impossible to look away from.

Black Bag
Marriage counselling meets espionage in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, which fuses relationship drama and spy thriller elements. Michael Fassbender plays George Woodhouse, a British agent hunting a digital weapon — until his wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett) becomes the prime suspect. 

Pierce Brosnan commands as the duo’s formidable boss Arthur Stieglitz, while Soderbergh keeps the tension simmering through dinner parties, therapy sessions, and lie-detector tests. Slick, stylish, and laced with dark humour, Black Bag proves the most dangerous secrets are the personal ones.