Please don't take my sunshine away

PROJECT HAIL MARY

2026

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Written by Drew Goddard (based on the novel by Andy Weir)

Spoilers: moderate

Can you get enough of me?

THE FALL GUY

2024

Directed by David Leitch

Written by Drew Pearce

Spoilers: moderate

Kill all Ken

BARBIE

2023

Directed by Greta Gerwig

Written by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig

Spoilers: high

Here I reign

SONG TO SONG

Terry does it again.  (Whether that's a good thing or not remains, as always, a matter of taste.)

2017

Written and directed by Terrence Malick

With Rooney Mara (Faye), Ryan Gosling (B.V.), Natalie Portman (Rhonda), and Michael Fassbender (Cook)

Spoiler alert: mild

Cells (interlinked)

BLADE RUNNER 2049

I am so Soviet happy.

2017

Directed by Denis Villeneuve

Written by Hampton Francher and Michael Green

With Ryan Gosling (K), Ana de Armas (Joi), Harrison Ford (Deckard), Mackenzie Davis (Mariette), Robin Wright (Lt. Joshi), Sylvia Hoeks (Luv), and Jared Leto (Niander Wallace)

Spoiler alert: moderate

I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired

LA LA LAND

A throwback this substantial and earnest in its attempt to revivify a long-dead subgenre would have earned our attention regardless; but one this well-made and ultimately powerful, has—in spite of its weaknesses—managed to earn the effusiveness of its praise.

2016

Written and directed by Damien Chazelle

With Ryan Gosling (Sebastian), Emma Stone (Mia), and John Legend (Keith)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Guy killed me, Mal

ONLY GOD FORGIVES

An overly insistent cartoon about the Thai underworld featuring mainly white people that is better shot than Street Fighter but maybe not quite as entertaining.