Here are Cinephile Corner’s 10 recommendations for movies like Rose of Nevada:
Miroirs No. 3
Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3 sticks to small-scale beauty centered around a female protagonist with enough central screen presence to make you feel as though the entire world revolves around her. Petzold usually enlists either Nina Hoss or Paula Beer for the honors. In the case of Miroirs No. 3, it’s Beer, playing Laura, a young music student who somehow survives a car crash that kills her boyfriend.
Backrooms
Kane Parsons’ deliriously scary YouTube creepypasta series The Backrooms has been adapted to the big screen, and he is not the first to graduate from YouTube filmmaking and short-form horror to feature auteur in the last few years. Zach Cregger and Curry Barker have similar trajectories off the success of Barbarian/Weapons and Obsession, respectively. But Parsons makes a direct adaptation of his own highly successful and notorious Backrooms project here, becoming A24’s youngest feature director in the process.
Presence
Presence is another fascinating experiment from Steven Soderbergh, a filmmaker who has spent the last decade pushing his own creative boundaries. With films like Kimi and Magic Mike’s Last Dance, he’s proven he can reinvent genres with an auteur’s touch, and Presence continues that trend—this time through a unique first-person POV horror/thriller. While the movie doesn’t entirely stick the landing, its technical craftsmanship and conceptual ambition make it an intriguing entry in Soderbergh’s ever-evolving filmography.
Mother Mary
Mother Mary constantly gestures toward depth without ever quite finding it. For some viewers, that ambiguity will likely be the appeal. For me, it resulted in a film that feels caught between two far more interesting versions of itself: a dazzling concert spectacle and an intimate character study. It never fully commits to either, and I wish it committed to option A.
Old
It’s been a few years since M. Night Shyamalan‘s Old hit movie theaters and it still feels as fresh as that day. Shyamalan’s old school mixture of poignant commentary and rich thrills combine into his best film since 2002, and one that stays immensely rewatchable.
The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. There are certain movies that feel almost titanic as they happen. It was only a matter of time before someone adapted The Odyssey on a grand scale. And after Dunkirk further proved Nolan’s mastery of large-scale historical filmmaking, and Oppenheimer cemented him as arguably the most important blockbuster filmmaker working today, Homer’s epic felt like the biggest fish left in the pond.
The Love That Remains
There’s real ache to Hlynur Pálmason’s The Love That Remains, a divorce movie that almost refuses to behave like one. It’s less interested in the usual big cathartic blowups and courtroom beats than it is in the day-to-day weirdness of a family trying to reconfigure itself after the center can’t hold anymore.
I Saw the TV Glow
I Saw the TV Glow is one of the best movies of 2024, showcasing exactly what independent filmmaking can be when handled by the right people. A24 adds another riveting drama by a fascinating young auteur to their trophy case, and Jane Schoenbrun announces themselves as an important and singular filmmaker to look out for moving forward.
Keeper
Keeper finds Oz Perkins splitting the difference between the chilly occult dread of Longlegs and the goofy pulp of his Stephen King riff The Monkey. The result is a winking slow burn that slips, scene by scene, into gawky madness. It is more confident than The Monkey, less severe than Longlegs, and most alive when it trusts atmosphere over exposition.
The Last House
There’s a potentially compelling contained thriller buried somewhere inside this premise. A family trapped in their home while an unknowable force surrounds them, forcing them to confront dwindling resources, paranoia, and their own assumptions about what’s happening outside could have made for a genuinely tense movie. Instead, The Last House keeps stopping to explain itself until whatever mystery or suspense it might have generated has largely evaporated.
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