The feeling is there. You have been keeping it at arm's length by turning it into something you can think about rather than something you have to feel, which is not avoidance exactly, more like a delay you have negotiated with yourself. You name the patterns, you read the relevant material, you build the case for how this happened and why. These films will not interrupt that. They carry their emotional weight through precision and craft, and the feeling arrives anyway, from the side, the way it always does when you are looking somewhere else.
A family dog - with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind - evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Returning to Earth as an imitator, the legendary Mexican artist Pedro Infante must prove that he is no longer a womanizer to enter paradise.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
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
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
These films work not because they explain the feeling but because they earn your trust before they go near it.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all - great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reali
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who susp
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propag
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
The right film gives your mind somewhere to go. These do.