Joe Swanberg builds The Sun Never Sets around a messy love triangle filled with people who make frustrating, complicated and very human decisions. At its center is Dakota Fanning, delivering the kind of performance that deserves to be part of the awards conversation.

Alexander Ullom takes four friends, an endless road and one terrifyingly simple question: what happens when there is nowhere left to go? The deeper It Ends travels into its nightmare, the more frighteningly familiar it becomes.

David Robert Mitchell trades the dread of his horror films for pure, unembarrassed spectacle, and the result is one of the most purely enjoyable studio movies of the summer.

A high concept this flimsy needed movie stars, and Will Gluck's rom-com found the right two.

Matt Johnson trades the rise-and-fall biopic for a single unfinished summer, and lets his subject stay as unresolved as any teenager.

Destin Daniel Cretton's franchise reboot finds Tom Holland at his most compelling, Sadie Sink at her most formidable, and a love story that has taken the series four films to finally get right.

Christopher Nolan strips three thousand years of noise off the greatest story ever told, and what is underneath is a man trying to get home.

A wandering con man and the small-town girl who falls for him rob their way across the South, and it's hard not to root for them the whole way.

Olivia Wilde directs and performs at a new peak in a dinner party comedy so relentlessly funny that its late, unhurried turn toward heartbreak catches you completely off guard.

Adrian Chiarella's debut understands that the real monster has always been the book it's named after.

Milly Alcock shines in Supergirl, but a muddled script and emotionally inert direction ground DC's newest heroine before she ever takes flight.

Steven Spielberg delivers the alien movie he has spent five decades building toward, thrilling and tender for most of its running time, until the final stretch turns his lifelong wonder into a lecture.

John Carney's winning musical dramedy gives Rudd the role of his career, and the result is the rare summer film that earns both its laughs and its tears.

Kane Parsons announces himself as a major filmmaking talent with a first two-thirds of pure, sustained dread, only to watch his screenplay lose its nerve just when the psychology it built so carefully was about to pay off.

Curry Barker's debut turns a silly magic trick into one of the most unsettling portraits of male obsession in recent memory, anchored by a career-making performance from Inde Navarrette.

Sophy Romvari’s debut feature approaches family trauma with remarkable intimacy and compassion, capturing the emotional weight of loving someone while fearing what their struggles may mean for everyone around them. Told through fragmented memories and deeply human performances, Blue Heron becomes a tender, heartbreaking portrait of a family trying to hold itself together in the face of impossible decisions.

An intimate, beautifully restrained indie that finds devastating power in what it doesn’t say, and one that features a devastating performance by John Magaro.

Damian McCarthy’s latest horror film arrives with the blueprint of a classic haunted tale. A remote hotel filled with buried history, locked rooms, lingering tragedy, and personal ghosts waiting to resurface. On paper, Hokum feels tailor-made for fans of traditional ghost stories. But despite its strong foundation and carefully constructed atmosphere, the film never quite creates the lingering unease that defines the genre’s most memorable hauntings.

Twenty years after The Devil Wears Prada defined a generation of workplace ambition and fashion-forward storytelling, the long-awaited sequel arrives with the weight of nostalgia already built into its DNA. It’s entertaining, charming, and often genuinely funny, but the more time you spend thinking about it, the more you realize just how much it depends on your relationship with the original.

Robert Aramayo delivers a performance of remarkable control and honesty in a film that understands how humor and heartbreak can exist side by side.