With something always tantalizingly out of reach, Christian Petzold’s films carry a certain rigor of academic riddles, albeit koans populated by characters nursing their own quiet tragedies. With vibrant interiority, Paula Beer’s melancholic university music student becomes a makeshift bandage for a rural family in the wake of a freak car crash.
In A24’s The Drama Robert Pattinson & Zendaya spark conversations
Kristoffer Borgli’s newest film, The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is a—you guessed it—drama masquerading as a rom-com, but with only bits and pieces of romance and comedy; instead, as the title suggests, it leans very heavily on the drama.
It’s a me, a new Super Mario Brothers movie
After leaving the theater for the latest Super Mario Brothers movie, I thought, “This movie is cool to look at, the animation is impressive, and the story is thin but harmless but it’s still a fun time. That’s basically what I said three years ago, the last time a Mario movie hit theaters and I feel the same way with this new movie.
Tow tries to shame corporate bullies but stops short
Amanda Ogle (Rose Byrne) is more like the average American that we want to admit. She has been living out of her car in the painfully expensive city of Seattle for more than six months and just as she finds a job that could pull her out of the mire, someone steals her car. With a hefty tow bill, caused by the thief, between her and the car throws her world into chaos. She fights back to reign it back in, but it’s no simple task.
Ready or Not: Here I Come extends the franchise with more billionaire idiots you’ll love to hate
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026 | USA | 108 minutes | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett) It’s been seven years …
Project Hail Mary makes a hugely winning bet on interstellar bromance
Project Hail Mary (2026 | USA | 256 minutes | Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s hotly anticipated …
Roundtable: 2026 Oscar Picks and Predictions
It’s that time again! We all picked our favorites at the end of the year; the guilds have spoken; critics groups have doled out their laurels (and/or fishes); and now, nearly a quarter of the way through 2026 (Thanks, Olympics), it’s finally time for the Academy to put a bow on the movies of 2025 with the Oscars. In advance of Sunday’s telecast – hosted once again by Conan O’Brien – airing at 4:00 PDT on ABC and Hulu (thanks, East Coast), your friends at the SunBreak gathered ’round the old roundtable to make our predictions on how the awards will (and should) go when all’s said and done.
Undertone brims with promise, but it’s undercooked
Horror movies often tap into the intersection of mortality and grief with a disarming fidelity seldom present in more literal-minded, non-scary mainstream movies. It’s one of many reasons I love the genre. Alongside the rollercoaster endorphin rush and dark escapism that draw me inexorably to them, the best horror films also serve as catharsis of the most profound variety.
Sirāt rattles the body to shock the soul
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
The Bride! was engrossing, unnerving and surprising
Long after her death, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) takes a lead role in the story of The Bride! Together with a bored, free-spirited, but troubled young woman (also Jessie Buckley) she intends to dispense chaos in order to relieve her spirit of a story that she deems must be told. In a world where she not only wrote about Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, but they were real beings (manifested by her words or created in reality? We’ll never know) she burns to continue the tale that has yet to conclude in her mind.