“The Last Day”
Rachel Rose writes, directs, and produces this New York-set interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” starring Alicia Vikander, Victoria Pedretti, and Wagner Moura. Set on July 4, the film follows two mothers whose lives briefly intersect before moving in different directions. The hook is literary but immediate: one day, one city, private rupture, and public noise. Rose’s visual-art background hints at a mood-driven adaptation rather than a conventional retelling.
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“The Leader”
Michael Gallagher writes and directs this Heaven’s Gate drama starring Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga, Jim Parsons, Simon Rex, and Grace Caroline Currey. The film revisits the cult that convinced dozens of followers to abandon their lives in the hope of being evacuated from Earth. Cult dramas need to explain belief without condescending to it, and Nelson and Farmiga are strong choices for material built around charisma, delusion, conviction, and dread.
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“Next Life”
Drake Doremus writes, directs, and produces this romantic drama starring Emilia Clarke, Jack Farthing, and Édgar Ramírez. Clarke plays Ivy, whose chance encounter with a jazz musician on a train opens one possible life, while another timeline finds her reconnecting with her ex-fiancé. Doremus has spent much of his career on intimacy, longing, and romantic timing, and this setup gives him a speculative structure without turning the film into sci-fi.
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“The Revisionist”
Alex Vlack writes, directs, and produces “The Revisionist,” starring Alison Brie, André Holland, Tom Sturridge, and Dustin Hoffman. Brie plays Elise, a successful writer who starts manipulating the people closest to her as though they were characters in her book. The return of an old friend tests how far she is willing to go for her art. Brie is well-suited to polished surfaces cracking under pressure, and the film turns creative entitlement into psychological suspense.
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“In Memoriam”
Rob Burnett writes, directs, and produces this inside-Hollywood comedy-drama starring Marc Maron, Talia Ryder, Lily Gladstone, and Sharon Stone. Maron plays a dying man with one final wish: to be included in the Academy Awards “In Memoriam” segment. It is a sharp comic setup because the desire is vain, pathetic, and, in its way, painfully human. Maron’s screen presence has grown more elastic in recent years, and the supporting cast gives the material emotional range.
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