Usually, a good movie and great performances go hand-in-hand. If you’re looking to be blown away by acting talent, look no further. Here are the best movies and show featuring great acting.
Let’s get this out of the way: Love Story isn’t an accurate retelling of the marriage between John F. Kennedy…
Dir. Shannon Murphy
Dying for Sex feels like two shows in one. Mainly, it follows Molly (Williams), a 40-something diagnosed with Stage 4…
Dir. Eva Victor
In Sorry, Baby, an unspeakable act of cruelty disrupts Agnes’ ambitious rise to the top. Despite being a literature professor,…
Dir. Roshan Sethi
Sure, many of the tropes in this feel-good romcom would be familiar. Naveen, a shy Indian doctor, loves Jay, a…
Dir. James Sweeney
Twinless starts off something like one of those quirky indies in the 2010s about awkwardly navigating grief and sharing that…
It’s easy to feel like you’ll know exactly what you’ll get once you see stills from Guy Ritchie’s MobLand, which…
Following his sophomore feature Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer-director Cooper Raiff made his way to television with family dramedy Hal…
Alien has done it again. Another prequel installment, Alien: Earth gives another glimpse into the sci-fi vision that fans of…
It’s always fascinating to see how the ultra-rich live, but it’s even more fun to see them ruin themselves with…
Dir. Carmen Emmi
The strength of Plainclothes is the way it captures a memory. Fitting, for a film primarily set on New Year’s…
With a movie adaptation released earlier in the same year, this miniseries version of the classic French novel was overlooked.…
When a mix-up in the school pick-up line turns out to be a kidnapping, it’s the beginning of the nightmare…
Set in Tulsa, The Lowdown follows Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke), a bookstore owner by day and investigative journalist by night.…
Dir. Coralie Fargeat
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…
Dir. Mike Leigh
Hurt people hurt people, the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than in Hard Truths. Directed by Mike…
Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
A Real Pain is a deceptively simple film. There’s not a lot going on on the surface, but Eisenberg’s smart…
Watching The Day of the Jackal feels like watching a film; it’s taut, fast-paced, and flashy, featuring incredible dual performances…
With the gorgeous period costumes, the romance, and the familial dynamics, you would think that Like Water for Chocolate’s latest…
Dir. John Hsu
In the Dead Talents Society, ghosts haunting humans are less of a scare, and more a performance that can grant…
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
Dir. Brady Corbet
Just a few minutes in, you can already feel the immensity of The Brutalist. The rousing score stirs you. The…
Dir. Robert Eggers
Nosferatu is impressive on all counts. On the acting front, you have Skarsgård performing a career-best—he’s been many monsters, but…
Dir. Ray Yeung
While the film is calm, contemplative, and never goes into histrionics, there’s a deep-seated anger in All Shall Be Well…
Dir. Jang Jae-hyun
For the longest time, land was where people formed strength in community, where people were born, lived, died, and was…
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur
With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…
If you’re expecting the sleek, playful, and totally over-the-top spy shenanigans of 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you’re not going…
Dir. Goran Stolevski
Only a few people in Dita’s house are related by blood, but you wouldn’t know that by how they move.…
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