It’s rare for a movie’s opening production logo to tell you that you’re going to see a big show. However, this almost describes my experience with the films produced by A24, the most productive of which are available to stream and/or book right now.
Since its inception in 2012, A24 has produced many innovative, exciting, challenging, and award-winning films in all sorts of genres, from early favorites like Spring Breakers to more recent blockbusters like Uncut Gems. I have to say that with so many amazing movies under the umbrella of A24 to stream or rent, it hasn’t been easy to remove them, however, here are just 17 of my favorite feature films from my favorite production company.
New York jeweler Howard Rattner is an ignorant, rude, ruthlessly greedy and self-destructive loudmouth and, in general, one of the most unsympathetic film protagonists I’ve seen in recent times. However, Adam Sandler’s performance convinces audiences to help him despite his increasingly horrific decisions and helps keep them engaged in his defense of the biggest payday imaginable in Josh and Benny Safdie’s anxiety-fueled crime drama, Uncut Gems.
Former Walking Dead actor Steven Yeun is the first Asian-American to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for playing the lead role in one of his most productive films, Minari. It also stars Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung for Best Supporting Actress. and writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical drama that follows a circle of relatives of South Korean immigrants, deeply reflects the plight of the pursuit of the American dream.
Taking elements from the horror films of the 1970s, especially The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and incorporating them into a dark mirror image of the adult film industry of the time, indie horror hero Ti West arguably created his masterpiece in X. The first installment of a trilogy that continued with the haunting prequel, Pearl, and will end with the 80s Hollywood story, MaXXXine, this nuanced and unabashedly disturbing mystery starring Scream Queens Mia Goth and Jenna Ortega is an unforgettable experience.
When you think of Best Picture Oscar winners, you tend to think of a serious old epic or a deep-rooted family drama. Still, Everything Everywhere All At Once, which also earned the Oscar for actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan. and Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as the writer-director duo collectively known as DANIELS, is unlike any other film that has ever won this honor. In fact, I would venture to say that this visually creative and utterly absurd story The story of a woman who is suddenly tasked with traveling the Multiverse to save humanity and reconcile her dysfunctional circle of relatives is unlike any movie most have ever seen.
Our collective selection for Best Picture of 2022 is this captivating documentary-style comedy about an adorably naïve talking mollusk, voiced by former SNL star Jenny Slate. Slate also collaborated with director Dean Fleischer Camp on the screenplay for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which he nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Sometimes a principle as undeniable as watching a man drive for about 90 minutes is enough to motivate heartbreaking drama. A good example is Locke, in which Tom Hardy plays the lead role of a familiar and structuring man who faces the ultimate consequences. of making a mistake overnight. Told in real time, through a series of phone calls during a road trip, Steven Knight’s mystery is a gripping one-man display and an impressive achievement of proving that wonderful things can come in small packages.
When young computer programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) wins a festival to meet and work on a special assignment with his employer, billionaire tech guru Nathan (Oscar Isaac), he discovers he’s part of an experiment to test a robot’s humanistic appeal. named Ava (Alicia Vikander), which forces him to face his own humanity. Ex Machina, the first film from 28 Days Later and the mastermind of Annihilation, Alex Garland, is a shocking story with a moral along the lines of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that questions the benefits (or disadvantages) that can come simply from synthetic intelligence if it turns out to be smarter than us.
Not forgetting Tommy Wiseau’s remarkable disaster, THE Room, this heartbreaking drama follows a faithful mother known only as “Ma” (Brie Larson, in a stunning Oscar-winning performance) who seeks to provide a nurturing environment for her young son, Jack. (Jacob Tremblay), who has spent his entire life with My Restraint Captive Through a Kidnapper. Based on the best-selling novel by screenwriter Emma Donaghue, Room is an intense yet charming mystery about the struggle to triumph over barriers and the preoccupation with what lies beyond. .
Instead of traditional biopics that try to summarize the entire story of a life in more than two hours, The End of the Tour is the kind that focuses on a single moment or stage of that person’s life. In this case, the subject is the past Infinite. The author of the joke, David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), in a five-day interview with Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg). Essentially a verbal exchange between the two men, the film is a surprising and inspiring achievement that never yields to pretentiousness, thanks to transcendental functionality through Segel, deliciously banal direction through James Ponsoldt, and Donald Margulies’ haunting adaptation of Lipsky’s memoir. You end up adapting to yourself.
Dating might feel like a race against time for those who would arguably understand the aging process as a dehumanizing metamorphosis, but believe that the stakes are really that high. This is the main concept of The Lobster, which is set in a desperately dark dystopian situation in which monogamy is a legal priority and those without a romantic spouse are surgically reshaped into the animal of their choice. Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz play two of the many middle-aged singles who have forty-five days to locate, love, or face their aforementioned destiny in this brutal, but hilarious and bizarre absurd satire through Yorgos Lanthimos.
Writer-director Barry Jenkins’ groundbreaking film tells the story of a black man’s lifelong struggles with a neglectful, drug-addicted mother (Naomie Harris), his sense of identity and his sexuality, and as a child he received little guidance from anyone other than a drug—a merchant named Juan (Mahershala Ali, two-time Oscar winner). Deeply moving and superbly acted drama starring Alex R. With Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes as central characters in 3 stages of its life, Moonlight made it the first LGBTQ-themed film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In her first film, Greta Gerwig calls upon the teenage angst of the early 2000s: “Lady Bird,” also the ego of Christine McPherson (Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan), who craves a more complicated and adventurous lifestyle outside the gates of her Californian Catholic high school environment. The success Lady Bird is a peak of the coming-of-age genre, if it can be called its own genre, for its intelligent, quirky, and, most importantly, brutally righteous observation of the struggles of adolescence, exquisitely expressed through its glorious performances.
Anyone who was surprised when Twilight star Robert Pattinson was cast in the lead role in Matt Reeves’ The Batman had probably never noticed this intense mystery in which he plays a petty young delinquent who goes to excessive and despicable lengths to achieve his mental disability. Young. brother released from prison. Uncut Gems creators Josh and Benny Safdie (the latter also plays the role of the imprisoned brother) first showed their mastery of awe-inspired, high-energy thrills by transforming Good Time into a unique cinematic roller coaster that reeks of ’80s, guerrilla-inspired.
If Hereditary had put tacky ’50s-style slogans on its poster promising hysteria and paralyzing fear, this iconic horror film produced through A24 would have told the truth. If you haven’t noticed writer-director Ari Aster’s feature film debut, I’m not in a position to reveal much more than the story of miniature sculptor Annie Graham (Toni Collette in an indescribably better performance) and her family’s suffering after The Tragedy slowly transitions from dark melodrama to an inexplicable and unforgiving nightmare.
The aforementioned Lady Bird is a fair and refreshing take on the horrors of high school, but the intensity of the senior year before high school, of which editor and first-time principal Bo Burnham seemed to have a phenomenal understanding, should not be underestimated. neither. Elsie Fisher earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as an eighth-grade star as a 13-year-old woman plagued by her own introverted personality in this gorgeously original observation about early adolescence.
The premise of this latent luck, in which a Chinese-American woman (Golden Globe winner Awkwafina) attends a family reunion in China for her unsuspecting terminally ill grandmother, disguised as a marriage, is unique, but almost fantastical. concept. Until you realize that the story is a semi-autobiographical account of editor and director Lulu Wang’s own delight in what is the Chinese culture of keeping the death of a loved one a secret. The farewell is brutal but laughing and a laughing film in a foreign language that proves that life is, literally, stranger than fiction.
Anyone who knows the aforementioned Ari Aster knows that the stories he tells are all sunshine and daisies. Ironically, however, this aesthetic is prevalent in her second work, Midsommar, named after the Swedish festival that Dani (a desirable Florence Pugh) attends with her. her emotionally troubled boyfriend, Christian (Jack Reynor), and her friends. The mystery is, initially, a bit more of a headache than Hereditary, but its unique combination of tranquil visuals with devastating, twisted moments makes for an unforgettable adventure that you’re sure to have crawling over?
I doubt those are the newest A24 videos we feel compelled to recommend. Check out our calendar of upcoming films in 2024, or even just our A24 upcoming films consultant, so you can find out what the prestigious production company will offer next on the big screen. You can also keep an eye on what they have in store for us on the small screen with our upcoming A24 TV show consultant.
Jason Wiese writes for CinemaBlend. Su assignment is the result of years of dreaming of a career as a filmmaker, of having set himself a career as a “professional cinephile,” of reading journalism at Lindenwood University in St. Petersburg, and of reading journalism at Lindenwood University in St. Petersburg. John’s, from St. John’s. Charles, MO (where he is cultural editor of his student-run print and online publications), and a brief stint reviewing movies for fun. He later continued his movie complaint activity on TikTok (@wiesewisdom), where he posts videos twice. per week. Look for his call in almost every single article about Batman.
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