Your brain is done. These films ask nothing of you. Just watch.
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.
Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
A film for tired brains isn't a lesser film. It just knows what you need tonight.
Character-driven and unhurried. Low stakes, easy to follow.
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world's greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more?
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.