Donkeyhead
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Where To Watch: Netflix
Agam Darshi’s film is one that fearlessly tackles a character who is not the most likable, but there is still so much empathy in her flaws and the way she explores family and culture, one can’t help but become invested in this amusing family tale.
Elvis
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Where To Watch: Home Media, HBO Max, VOD
The King Of Rock ‘n’ Roll gets the cinematic treatment that is, to be quite honest, perfectly suited for all his strangeness, his complications, his legacy, his style, and his tragedy. No one but Baz Luhrmann could have done it.
Fire Of Love
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Where To Watch: Disney+, Hulu, VOD
An astounding document of love and the mighty power of mother nature. The footage is breathtaking and the story of the central couple is deeply engrossing and moving.
Flux Gourmet
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Where To Watch: Home Media, AMC+, Shudder, VOD
Peter Strickland continues his streak of off-kilter genre films with throwback sensibilities, this time skewing the culinary and the art world. The results are as bewildering but as engaging as you would expect.
Funny Pages
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Where To Watch: VOD
A hideous film with characters and environments that I did not enjoy spending time with, and I loved every obnoxious, grimy, chaotic second of it. A true hidden gem of a film that I hope finds its audience.
Gangubai Kathiawadi
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Where To Watch: Netflix
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest is a surprisingly radical look on female agency, bodily autonomy, and consent as explored through a larger-than-life character that Alia Bhatt really sinks her teeth into.
God’s Creatures
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Where To Watch: VOD
A stellar cast and haunting filmmaking elevates a story of a mother who chooses to act in defense of her son, who has been accused of a terrible act. How far can one’s love go? And what does your devotion say about you? Chilling but fantastic.
Guillermo del Toro’s 
Pinocchio
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Where To Watch: Netflix
Undoubtedly the best of the numerous Pinocchio movies we got last year. A beautiful rendition of a tale we’ve seen before but with that certain touch you could only get from Guillermo del Toro. Mesmerizing Fantastic.
Halloween Ends
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Where To Watch: Home Media, Prime Video, VOD
The surprisingly divisive slasher sequel is a film that I kept swirling around in my mind for weeks after seeing it. More melancholic than menacing, more in tune to the themes of the original, but carving out a path of its own. Loved it.
Jackass Forever
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Where To Watch: Home Media, Prime Video, Paramount+, MGM+, VOD
An awesome return for the lovable collection of guys who we enjoy seeing getting things thrown into their crotch. So wickedly funny, but also so alarmingly endearing in its portrayal of positive masculinity and friendship.
Lost Bullet II
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Where To Watch: Netflix
An upgrade to the action of an already solid first film. The stunt in this are wild, featuring some of the most extreme car stunts I’ve seen outside of Mad Max: Fury Road. Awesome action film.
Mad God
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Where To Watch: Home Media, AMC+, Shudder, VOD
A nasty and nightmarish mood piece that could only come from the imagination of the guy like Phil Tippett. An astonishing work of animation and creativity, truly a passion project that was worth the wait.
Nitram
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Where To Watch: Home Media, Hulu, AMC+, VOD
Haunting, hypnotic, all too real. A dissection of the man behind a terrible national tragedy whose scars are still present to this day. Brilliantly performed by Caleb Landry Jones.
No Bears
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Where To Watch: Check your local listings.
Jafar Panahi has only become more bold and more invigorating as an artist since his filmmaking ban, and this is one is just as confronting and propulsive with its look at divides, not just between nations, but people, generations, and traditions.
Nope
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Where To Watch: Home Media, Peacock, VOD
Peele’s finest film in my book, not only for being one of the lowkey best movies about movies this year, but also as a genuinely fresh take on the UFO subgenre, with stunning imagery that I have never seen before.
Onoda: 10,000 Nights In The Jungle
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Where To Watch: Home Media, VOD
Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, and this tale of one man’s commitment – or delusion, if you will, is very captivating and makes great use of its extensive runtime.
Pearl
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Where To Watch: VOD
Really this spot goes to both Pearl and X, which is more here in spirit. I’m annoyed that the most I’ve related to a character this year was during a monologue given by a deranged serial killer, but the film is so great because of the layers injected into it by Ti West and Mia Goth. Incredible horror filmmaking for both films.
Project Wolf Hunting
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Where To Watch: Home Media, VOD
An onslaught of over-the-top violence and carnage that had me a hootin’ and a hollerin’ for most of its runtime. It grabs you thinking it’s one kind of movie before switching gears into something more depraved and gruesome, and it’s a total blast.