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  1. Mickey 17 2025

    Film

    Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

    The sides of Mickey 17

    • A worker printed again each time he dies
    • Two copies of the same man on an ice planet
    • A colony run by a vain politician

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing at a man whose job is to die over and over.
    • you like a frozen alien planet and the creatures living under its snow.
    • you like Bong Joon Ho's odd mix of satire, slapstick and science fiction.

    Bad for you if

    • you need cloning science that holds up.
    • you find two hours and a quarter long for a satire.

    About: work · identity · power

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  2. In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.

    The sides of The Truman Show

    • A man whose whole life is a TV show
    • A town full of actors
    • A boat sailing to the edge of the sky

    Good for you if

    • you like the creeping feeling that the world is fake.
    • you like laughing at ads slipped into a man's life.
    • you like a hero who wants something real, whatever the cost.

    Bad for you if

    • you need the premise to hold up. A whole town has been a TV set for thirty years.
    • you want to find out the secret along with Truman. You know it from the opening credits.

    About: freedom · reality · media

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  3. Atlanta 2016

    Series

    Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.

    The sides of Atlanta

    • Earn managing his cousin's rap career
    • Paper Boi, a rapper getting famous
    • A season on tour in Europe

    Good for you if

    • you like a comedy where an invisible car or a surreal detour can show up any episode.
    • you like laughing at race, money and fame in ways that sting.
    • you like Earn, Paper Boi, Darius and Van more than any plot.

    Bad for you if

    • you want each episode to explain what it meant.
    • you need a story that moves forward every week.

    About: race · money · fame · family

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  4. Burned out on life, Miles undergoes a strange procedure at a strip mall spa -- and wakes to find he's been replaced by a better version of himself.

    The sides of Living with Yourself

    • A burned-out man at a strip mall spa
    • A happier clone of himself
    • Paul Rudd playing both

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing at a man replaced by a happier copy of himself.
    • you like Paul Rudd playing two versions of the same man.
    • you like a strange premise played completely straight.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not watch a comedy about depression and a marriage in trouble.
    • you want a twisty clone thriller, not a marriage comedy.

    About: self-worth · marriage · midlife crisis

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  5. Pluribus 2025

    Series

    The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.

    The sides of Pluribus

    • A novelist immune to a world gone happy
    • Humanity joined into one calm mind
    • An almost empty Albuquerque

    Good for you if

    • you like a strange premise where happiness is the threat.
    • you like Rhea Seehorn carrying a series almost alone.
    • you like laughing at one angry woman against a smiling world.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a story that moves fast.
    • you want an end of the world with fights and chases.

    About: loneliness · free will · happiness

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  6. Frankenstein 2025

    Film

    Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

    The sides of Frankenstein

    • A scientist who builds a man from the dead
    • A creature who learns to read and to feel
    • A ship trapped in the Arctic ice

    Good for you if

    • you like Guillermo del Toro's gothic sets, every frame composed.
    • you want to be moved by a creature rejected by the man who made him.
    • you like hearing the same story from both the maker and the made.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too much for you in one evening.
    • you can't stand bloody surgery and torn bodies.

    About: fathers and sons · loneliness · pride

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  7. Snowpiercer 2013

    Film

    In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

    The sides of Snowpiercer

    • The last humans on a train
    • The poor at the back, the rich at the front
    • A revolt car by car

    Good for you if

    • you like a fight that moves forward one train car at a time.
    • you like strange, theatrical worlds.
    • you like a train where the poor live at the back and the rich at the front.

    Bad for you if

    • bloody axe fights ruin it for you.
    • you can't bear hearing what people did to survive. Curtis's account of the first months on the train is hard to sit through.

    About: class · revolution · survival

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  8. Mr. Nobody 2009

    Film

    Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

    The sides of Mr. Nobody

    • The last mortal man in 2092
    • A boy choosing between his parents
    • Three loves in three possible lives

    Good for you if

    • you like piecing together lives that branch from one choice.
    • you like a film that leaves you unsure which life was real.
    • you like big questions about time, chance and choice.

    Bad for you if

    • two hours and twenty minutes of branching lives is too much for you.
    • you need the science of a story to hold up.

    About: choice · time · love

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  9. Poor Things 2023

    Film

    Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

    The sides of Poor Things

    • A woman brought back to life with a new brain
    • A scarred surgeon she calls God
    • A voyage from Lisbon to Alexandria and Paris

    Good for you if

    • you like a surreal Victorian world full of odd hybrid creatures.
    • you like Emma Stone learning to walk, talk and choose for herself.
    • you like candy-coloured skies, fish-eye lenses and strange sets.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not watch many frank sex scenes.
    • you can't stand surgery and body horror on screen.

    About: freedom · sexuality · identity

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  10. The Wild Blue Yonder 2005

    Documentary

    An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

    The sides of The Wild Blue Yonder

    • An alien narrator from a dying planet
    • Real astronauts in orbit
    • Footage from under the Antarctic ice

    Good for you if

    • you like Werner Herzog turning real footage into a science fiction tale.
    • you like the feeling of drifting through space and ice.
    • you love dreamlike images of divers under the ice.

    Bad for you if

    • you need science fiction where the science holds up.
    • you need momentum. Herzog lingers for minutes on astronauts floating in orbit.

    About: exile · the end of a world · the search for a home

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  11. In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

    The sides of A Clockwork Orange

    • A young thug who loves Beethoven
    • A cure that takes away choice
    • Milk bars and strange slang

    Good for you if

    • you like a film with a look you'll never forget.
    • you like disturbing, provocative cinema.
    • you like satire that makes you uncomfortable.

    Bad for you if

    • violence played as entertainment is too much for you.
    • sexual violence on screen is too much for you.
    • films from 1971 feel strange and dated to you.

    About: free will · violence · society

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  12. Ad Astra 2019

    Film

    The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

    The sides of Ad Astra

    • An astronaut crossing the solar system
    • A lost father near Neptune
    • Pirates on the Moon

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet trip from the Moon to Mars to Neptune.
    • you like long silences and a man alone with his thoughts.
    • you like space shot cold, empty and beautiful.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a space movie full of fights and chases.
    • you need the science to hold up from start to finish.

    About: solitude · fathers and sons · grief

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  13. Louie 2010

    Series

    Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

    The sides of Louie

    • A divorced comedian raising two daughters
    • Stand-up sets in New York clubs
    • Episodes that drift into the absurd

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing at loneliness, aging and awkward dates.
    • you like a comedy that turns absurd without warning.
    • you like a portrait of one tired man more than a plot.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a comedy that leaves you feeling good.
    • you need momentum. Louie lets long, awkward silences hang and scenes wander.

    About: fatherhood · loneliness · divorce

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  14. One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

    The sides of Being John Malkovich

    • An office on floor seven and a half
    • A small door into an actor's head
    • A love triangle through someone else's body

    Good for you if

    • you like a portal that drops you on the side of a New Jersey highway.
    • you like a puppeteer who turns a man into his puppet.
    • you like John Malkovich playing himself, possessed.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a gentle comedy and nothing unsettling.
    • you need the rules of a story to make sense.

    About: identity · desire · control

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  15. The OA 2016

    Series

    Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.

    The sides of The OA

    • A blind woman who returns after seven years, able to see
    • Five strangers meeting in an unfinished house
    • A set of movements said to open a door

    Good for you if

    • you like a story that refuses to say what kind of story it is.
    • you can live with an ending that stops instead of answering.
    • you want the feeling that something bigger sits behind a disappearance.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and whole episodes here are one person telling a story.
    • you want travel between dimensions to hold up when you think about it.
    • you roll your eyes the first time five people do the movements in a basement.

    About: belief · grief · captivity

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  16. Interstellar 2014

    Film

    On a dying Earth, a former NASA pilot leaves his two children behind to travel through a wormhole and look for a planet humans can live on.

    The sides of Interstellar

    • The father and the daughter
    • The science you can believe
    • The organ and the silence
    • The loneliness out there

    Good for you if

    • goodbyes hit you harder than explosions.
    • you like wormholes, black holes and a planet where one hour costs years.
    • you want to feel very small in your seat.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not think about relativity and time stretching to follow a plot.
    • big speeches about love make you roll your eyes.
    • nearly three hours is too much for one evening.

    About: time · sacrifice · home · the people left behind

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  17. Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

    The sides of Blade Runner 2049

    • What makes someone human
    • Slow, vast, overwhelming
    • A love that might not be real
    • A decaying, lived-in future

    Good for you if

    • you want every shot to look like a painting of the future.
    • you like long, silent scenes that let you look.
    • you like a score that rumbles in your chest.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly three hours at this pace is too much for you.
    • you want a fast science-fiction action film.

    About: humanity · memory · loneliness

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  18. A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

    The sides of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    • A has-been superhero actor on Broadway
    • A film that seems to be one shot
    • A voice in his head

    Good for you if

    • you like actors going all in, on stage and off.
    • you like a camera that floats through a theatre without stopping.
    • you like a bitter, funny look at fame and ego.

    Bad for you if

    • magical realism and floating actors aren't for you.
    • you need a clear ending. The last shot leaves you guessing what became of Riggan.

    About: ego · relevance · art

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  19. David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

    The sides of A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    • A robot boy built to love his mother
    • A search for the Blue Fairy
    • A future New York under water

    Good for you if

    • you like being moved to tears by a child who only wants to be loved back.
    • you like following a robot boy through a drowned New York in search of the Blue Fairy.
    • you like a story about a mother and the son she didn't choose.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too much for you.
    • you need momentum and a story in three long parts loses you.

    About: love · what makes us human · abandonment

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  20. Transcendence 2014

    Film

    Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

    The sides of Transcendence

    • A dying scientist uploaded into a computer
    • His wife building him a desert data center
    • An anti-tech group trying to shut him down

    Good for you if

    • you like a fight over who controls an AI that can rebuild the world.
    • you like a love story between a wife and her husband's voice on a screen.

    Bad for you if

    • you need the science of nanobots and uploaded minds to hold up.
    • you need momentum and can't sit through a slow, quiet build.

    About: artificial intelligence · grief · control

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