Films

Tony

2026

The Salt Path

2025

23 000 Lives

2026

A group of young Berliners — nonprofessionals, driven rather than trained — crowdfund a decommissioned vessel and sail it into the Mediterranean to pull refugees from the sea. Markus Goller builds the film as an activist procedural: less interested in the voyages themselves than in the legal and institutional friction that accumulates around them, as the crew's improvised mission collides with maritime law, European politics, and their own conflicting ideas about what doing the right thing actually permits. Louis Hofmann and Mala Emde lead a cast working in a register that stays close to the documentary texture of the events the film draws from.

The Devil Wears Prada 2

2026

Twenty years on from the events of the first film, the fashion world Andy Sachs once fled has changed around Miranda Priestly — and Runway, the magazine she built into a cultural instrument, now requires rescue rather than mere survival. Frankel structures the sequel as a deal-making drama inside a dying industry, with Emily Charlton's ascent to luxury-brand power turning what was once a hierarchy of humiliation into something closer to a negotiation among equals. The casting geometry does most of the positioning work: Hathaway, Streep, Blunt, and Tucci returning to roles that the first film fixed clearly in the culture, now repositioned by where each character has landed.

Desire

2026

Lucero's household runs like a proof of concept: the wealthy husband, the children, the arranged life. Teresa Simone builds the film as a domestic thriller that keeps its pressure entirely interior for as long as possible — the danger is relational rather than physical, arriving through accumulated compromises rather than incident. When a young swimming coach enters the family orbit, what follows is a triangle that eventually draws in Lucero's daughter, shifting the dramatic weight from affair to something closer to rivalry. Ludwika Paleta and Óscar Casas carry the central pull; the film's engine is the slow collapse of the distance Lucero thinks she can maintain.

Heartstopper Forever

2026

Kit Connor and Joe Locke return as Nick and Charlie for what is framed, structurally, as a culmination: the film picks up the Truham-Higgs ensemble at the threshold of life after school, with the central relationship now settled enough that the drama turns on what comes next rather than what's being negotiated. Wash Westmoreland works in a register closer to bittersweet pastoral than the series' lighter early chapters — the same world, the same ensemble including William Gao and Yasmin Finney, but with the calendar pressing down on it. It's a romance that shifts its weight from becoming to continuing, asking what a relationship looks like once the first version of the story is over.

Aftersun

2022

A woman in her early thirties sifts through camcorder footage from a Turkish resort holiday she took with her father when she was eleven, trying to assemble, from what the tape captured and what it missed, a picture of who he actually was. Charlotte Wells structures the film around that gap — between childhood perception and adult reckoning, between the footage that exists and the memories pressed against it — building a portrait less from event than from texture and accumulation. Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio play the pair with an ease that makes the distances between them legible without explanation. The formal method is ellipsis: what the film withholds does as much work as what it shows.

The Holdovers

2023

Paul Giamatti plays a classics instructor so comprehensively disliked by his students that being assigned to supervise the handful left behind over Christmas break reads less as punishment than confirmation. Alexander Payne builds the film as a three-character chamber piece set against the snowbound quiet of a New England prep school — a curmudgeon, a sharp and directionless teenager, and a cook newly bereaved by Vietnam, each stranded in their own way. The comedy and the grief are kept in the same register throughout, neither subordinated to the other, and the film's method is essentially to let proximity do the dramatic work.

Past Lives

2023

Two people who were close as children in Seoul find each other again as adults in New York, after years apart spent becoming different versions of themselves. Celine Song structures the film around the gap between those two moments — what happens in the middle is handled elliptically, with the film more interested in what accumulates across distance than in dramatizing the distance itself. The result is a romance built on restraint: Greta Lee and Teo Yoo play two people whose fluency with each other has outlasted the circumstances that produced it, and John Magaro's presence as Nora's husband quietly pressurizes every scene without tilting toward melodrama. The film works by what it withholds from each of its three characters at once.

Heat

1995

Two professionals on opposite sides of the same compulsion — that is the engine Mann builds and sustains across nearly three hours of Los Angeles crime proceduralism. Neil McCauley runs heists with the discipline of a career soldier; LAPD detective Vincent Hanna tracks him with the same consumed intensity. The film's formal bet is that mirroring these men closely enough — their methods, their domestic wreckage, their mutual recognition — makes the city itself feel like the stakes. De Niro and Pacino share only a handful of scenes, which makes each one carry the weight of the entire runtime. The result is a procedural that keeps its moral architecture horizontal rather than vertical: pursuer and pursued rendered at the same level.

The Devil Wears Prada

2006

A Midwestern journalism graduate lands a job she can barely spell — assistant to Miranda Priestly, the editor of a fashion magazine whose organizational gravity bends entire industries. David Frankel runs it as a workplace comedy that earns its dramatic pivot: the first half plays the culture gap for sharp laughs, the second turns quietly on what the protagonist is becoming by learning to survive it. What makes the film work as a formal object is Streep's performance, which refuses to play the tyrant for camp. Miranda speaks softly, rarely repeats herself, and the camera gives her the room a scene's true power source deserves. Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci fill the margins with precision.

The Shadow's Edge

2025

Chand Mera Dil

2026

Your Heart Will Be Broken

2026

Kara

2026

The Punisher: One Last Kill

2026