The future is an open question and right now that feels like a threat. These films do not offer false reassurance. They sit with uncertainty and occasionally find something solid inside it.
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Something about the ending -- earned rather than tidy -- makes the future feel less like a threat.
Sits with uncertainty
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Something about the ending -- earned rather than tidy -- makes the future feel less like a threat.
Sits with uncertainty
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
The film sits with uncertainty without pretending to resolve it. That is what you need.
Sits with uncertainty
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
Something about the ending -- earned rather than tidy -- makes the future feel less like a threat.
Sits with uncertainty
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Something about the ending -- earned rather than tidy -- makes the future feel less like a threat.
Earns its ending
Earns its ending
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
The film sits with uncertainty without pretending to resolve it. That is what you need.
Earns its ending
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Something about the ending -- earned rather than tidy -- makes the future feel less like a threat.
Sits with uncertainty
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
Something about the ending -- earned rather than tidy -- makes the future feel less like a threat.
Sits with uncertainty
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
Something about the ending -- earned rather than tidy -- makes the future feel less like a threat.
Sits with uncertainty
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
The film sits with uncertainty without pretending to resolve it. That is what you need.
Sits with uncertainty
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.