Rated 7+ IMDb · 70%+ RT Little-known finds Curated by humans
Rated 7+ IMDb · 70%+ RT Little-known finds Curated by humans
Good movies serve beyond entertainment, to expand perspectives and improve our understanding of humanity and the world. If you’re hungry for some food for thought, here are the best smart movies and shows available to stream now.
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
Dir. Baron Vaughn
Demonstrating that a great stand-up routine should always stem from strong writing first and foremost, Brian Simpson makes common subjects…
Dir. Cord Jefferson
On the one hand, American Fiction is a razor-sharp satire that pokes fun at the hypocrisy of the literary and…
Dir. D. Smith
The idea of representation in movies is often limited to superficial gestures of putting on screen people who look a…
Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Evil Does Not Exist begins a simple enough parable about the dangers of disrupting the delicate balance of nature, particularly…
It’s difficult to describe Mrs. Davis without sounding a little bit insane. It is, after all, a sci-fi series that…
Fans of the iconic crime series 24 will find much to like in Rabbit Hole, not least because Kiefer Sutherland…
Dir. Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli
Using the documentary form with supreme clarity and righteous fury, Lakota Nation vs. United States distills hundreds of years of…
Dir. Sarah Polley
Not much happens in Women Talking, but what it lacks in action it more than makes up for in message.…
Dir. Sam Pollard
An essential documentary for sports fans but one that may be too specialized for casual viewers, The League continues director…
Dir. Todd Field
Filled with dense conversations about classical music and cryptic suggestions of a guilty conscience, Tár makes for a challenging watch…
Dir. Maria Schrader
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
Dir. Santiago Mitre
Argentina, 1985 is a legal drama about how a prosecutor and his young team were able to mount evidence—despite all…
The Resort may start off as a familiar murder mystery, but it quickly unfolds into a multi-genre feat re-filled with…
Dir. Yang Lei
When a scientist drops dead, the immediate questions are what’s the main reason, and what exactly were they studying. It’s…
Dir. Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler
Although Who We Are is essentially a professionally recorded masterclass interspersed with additional interviews, it only emphasizes Jeffery Robinson’s skill…
Dir. Xavier Giannoli
Despite being based on a 19th-century serial novel, Lost Illusions feels remarkably close to contemporary concerns about fake news and…
As far as newsroom dramas go, Alaska Daily is on the cheesier side, its structure hewing closer to network television…
Dir. Joanna Hogg
After 2019’s The Souvenir—a drama about a toxic, suffocating relationship—director Joanna Hogg brings back her protagonist (played by a superb…
Dir. Mike Mills
Mike Mills has always had an obsession with childhood and parenthood, often honing in on the beautiful, frustrating, and inevitable…
After struggling to recapture the magic of the first few Star Trek series for the better part of two decades,…
Dir. Regina King
This stagelike historical drama is about a meeting between Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali, the night…
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