While ‘Keeper’ isn’t a bad frightfest of a time at the cinema, containing a potent mix of intriguing visual ideas and commanding atmosphere, it’s also a signifier that Osgood Perkins has further ways to go in expanding the breadth of his elusivity in this more ‘pop’ framework.

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ depicts the attempt to save the life of five-year-old child, Hind Rajab, from the bloodlust of the Israeli military in northern Gaza. It features at its center the actual audio recordings from that day: her voice crying for help.

‘Showgirls’ leans hard into Verhoeven’s excess, satire, and sharp camp. Its neon world runs on illusion, and that noise turns into a strange pulse. The film pushes forward, slipping between critique and absurdity, and still leaves a mark that sticks.

‘Meet, Greet & Bye’ genuinely adds up to the important discussions of morality, love, and our decisions. When we make the most difficult choices of our lives for our loved ones, it is important to ask, “Is this what they would want, or a personal bearing?”

Even with structural and pacing stumbles, ‘Once Upon a Time in Gaza’ deftly navigates both genre and filmic metanarratives. All to explore the performance of violence to reflect revenge on all oppressors to Palestine.

If you come to this movie expecting to be filled with emotions, it is guaranteed to deliver. If you can look past its flaws, you will surely have a wicked time. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are marvelous as always, and while their performances are not award-worthy as some people are saying in exaggeration, they all gave their very best in a lacklusterly directed film.

‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ may very well be made out of solidarity; its respectable effort to tackle humanity at the core of its subjects is even noteworthy. But solidarity does not erase power. And we cannot ignore the elephant in the room simply because the filmmaker’s intentions are noble.

‘Human Resource’ is a crushingly cold experience on how capitalism has utterly broken our humanity, where even the miracle of birth is more a financial investment than a human being.

‘Amoeba’s’ mere existence is a protest in itself. A bold artistic expression wherein the personal expresses the political. And the film only asks one question: What is the DNA of Singapore?

 ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 marks a brave and bold outing for the DCU — one that emphasizes character development, with the cross-dimensional adventures serving as both a backdrop and a slingshot toward the universe’s future.

With both its sharpest writing and structuring in years, this year's eight-episode run is Sunny at its most character-centric, hilarious, and relatively grounded. Still would've wanted more episodes, though.

‘Adolescence’ exemplifies and extends the problems of misogyny, incel culture, and the nature of social media beyond what we know and usually practice, exploring how each of us has our own roles in protecting young children online.

Beyond the exquisite cooking and dynamic character moments, The Bear season four further draws its strength from portraying deeply flawed human beings, characters who reflect who they are and who they might become, despite their shortcomings.

‘The Four Seasons,’ starring Tina Fey, Colman Domingo, and Steve Carrell, as 3 middle-aged couples going on weekend getaways for each season of the year, is guaranteed to win over most audiences with its wisdom and subtlety.

Where ‘Andor’ truly stands out from other mainstream stories on war, is its fearlessness into showing the murkier and uglier sides to waging revolutions.