Films

9.0Skry

No Country for Old Men

2007

A welder stumbles onto the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas scrubland — bodies, heroin, and two million dollars in cash — and makes the decision to take the money. The Coen brothers adapt Cormac McCarthy's novel as a pursuit film that steadily evacuates the conventions of the genre: there is no showdown in the expected shape, no sheriff who closes the distance in time. Javier Bardem's Chigurh operates less like a villain than like a force the film refuses to explain away, and Tommy Lee Jones's aging lawman narrates from a position of permanent arrival-too-late. The structure belongs to the Western; the logic underneath does not.

8.3Skry

Obsession

2026

A cursed-wish conceit run through the register of romantic obsession: a teenager shatters a supernatural object to make someone love him, and the film's engine turns on what that love looks like once it arrives. Curry Barker builds the horror not from the wish going wrong in obvious ways but from it going right — at least at first — so the dread comes from watching the gap between what was wanted and what was actually asked for. The genre machinery here is less about monsters than about desire as something that, once granted without limit, becomes its own kind of trap.

7.0Skry

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

2026

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.