The feeling that no film could possibly help is usually wrong. These usually help.
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
One year after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, Agent Peggy Carter, a member of the Strategic Scientific Reserve, searches for the mysterious Zodiac.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
Discover what Thor was up to during the events of Captain America: Civil War.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister's place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
When the mood is off, the film needs to be better than usual. These can carry it.
Distance from the present helps when nothing feels right.
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
Fourteen years after Third Impact, Shinji Ikari awakens to a world he does not remember. He hasn't aged. Much of Earth is laid in ruins, NERV has been dismantled, and people who he once protected have turned against him. Befriending the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa, Shinji continues the fight against the angels and realizes the fighting is far from over, even when it could be against his former allies. The characters' struggles continue amidst the battles against the angels and each other, spiraling down to what could inevitably be the end of the world.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.