If you know the name A24you’ve probably seen movies like The witch, Hereditary, Everything Everywhere at the Same Time It is Past lives – all great, in fact! But it turns out that the producer and distributor releases many more films in theaters and streaming every year than it seems, and several of them end up being sidelined while others steal the spotlight.
LIST: A24’s 24 best films
Below, we’ve gathered 10 excellent feature films from the A24 catalog that we bet you haven’t seen. Check out.
Julianne Moore It is Sebastian Stan are among the most prominent names in Hollywood today, so it’s a little strange to see that the film they made together, Sharper, has been so little seen. A shame, not least because it’s an elegant con man thriller with clever direction. Benjamin Caron (Andor) is one of Stan’s best performances, perpetually trying to escape the Hollywood heartthrob stigma, to this day.
Where to see: Apple TV+.
Released in the same year that The Witch made A24 an important voice in contemporary horror, this gem from the director and screenwriter Bryan Bertino (The Strangers) teaches how to concentrate tension in a single scenario. In the plot, the always excellent Zoe Kazan plays a divorced mother who is stranded on a remote road alongside her daughter when her car breaks down – not only do the two have to sort out their family problems, but they also have to deal with a terrifying creature that attacks them in the middle of the night.
Where to see: Available to rent and purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV
The venerable French filmmaker Claire Denis went to space with this great psychosexual thriller set on a ship crewed by ex-criminals who accepted a space mission to lighten their sentences. With dedicated performances by Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche It is Mia Goth (pre-Pearl), it is science fiction with its feet firmly planted on the ground, deeply connected to the physicality and sexuality of its characters. And the ending is anthological.
Where to see: Available for purchase on Apple TV
Before consecrating his comedic streak with Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds made valiant attempts to lend his charisma to dramatic roles, none of them better than Curtis, the trickster who stars in Playmates. When he meets a perpetually unlucky gambling addict, Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), the partnership between the two opens up space for filmmakers Anna Boden It is Ryan Fleck (pre-Captain Marvel) sensitively interrogate the relationship between the American imagination and failure.
Where to see: Available only on physical media.
Come to see Paul Mescal In what is perhaps his last role before super stardom, he is left to be swept away by yet another masterful performance by Emily Watson, proving once again that she is one of the best (and most underrated) actresses working. Here, Mescal’s character returns to her small town just as a rape and murder case shakes the community around her. Sweltering, full of insight, and surprisingly hopeful.
Where to see: Available for rent and purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+.
Be gay, do crimes. Kelly Reichardt traces the proto-capitalist origin of the maxim in its subtextual way in First Cow, wrapping a series of subversive ideas in a dramatic tale built on silences, on the characters’ positions, on the moments between them that we don’t see. Between a doomed love story, a criminal thriller and a social critique, Reichardt chooses to suggest and evoke all of this at the same time. It works.
Where to see: MUBI.
Forget rigid films inspired by plays: The Humans shows how to energize a stage narrative by betting big on reproductions of horror clichés to convey the existential panic of late capitalism. Even with dynamic actors like Beanie Feldstein It is Steven Yeun on stage – names that would normally focus attention on themselves, and deservedly so -, this is a film that only works collectively, in a terribly appropriate proposal for the system it criticizes.
Where to see: MUBI
Long before Yellowstone put the Western on the agenda again, John Maclean went from music videos to the big screen to create one of the best revisionist westerns of the 21st century. With stunning cinematography, the film transforms the idyllic Old West into a nightmare landscape for the young Scotsman played with typical brilliance by Kodi Smit-McPhee. The violence of the American ethos crosses its path in the unpredictable figure of the outlaw Silas (Michael Fassbender).
Where to see: Available only on physical media.
Expanding on a character that became a phenomenon on YouTube, the animator Dean Fleischer Camp Dives deeper into considerations of community and loneliness in this feature-length version of Marcel the Shell in Shoes. Not only does the film live up to the complex and adorable mythology that Camp created for the character, it also creates a very timely meta-commentary on the distances shortened and widened by the internet age.
Where to see: Telecine
No other coming-of-age film understood the painful inadequacy of adolescence as well as Eighth Grade, the comedian’s directorial debut Bo Burnham. From the smallest details (the repetition of the catchphrase “Gucci!” in different tones throughout the film is my favorite) to large tonal strokes (the moment in which an avalanche of synthesizers marks the entrance of the protagonist’s crush on the scene), the film is an irreducible sentimental journey through the potential, anguish, aspiration and insecurity of youth. AND Elsie Fisher She’s an absurd actress.
Where to see: Available for rent and purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+.
