Here are Cinephile Corner’s 10 recommendations for movies like Wicker:
The Green Knight
Few movies in recent memory feel as enigmatic and endlessly dissectible as The Green Knight, David Lowery’s bold retelling of the Arthurian legend Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Released in 2021, this hypnotic, slow-burning medieval odyssey stars Dev Patel as Gawain, a young knight whose fateful decision to strike down the Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) sets him on a surreal and deeply existential journey.
Eternity
Eternity has a sweet, sentimental charm that fits David Freyne’s A24 rom-com mold, then asks a clever what-if of the afterlife. When you die, you enter a hub and choose where to spend forever. For Joan, played by Elizabeth Olsen, the question is less where than who. Freyne, working from a script co-written with Pat Cunnane, leans into humor and physical business rather than plumbing for deeper grief. The emotion largely comes from familiar highlight reels, meet cutes and proposal flashbacks that remind Joan what each love felt like in its best light. When the movie wants to go big, it does not hesitate.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is just as ridiculous and comical as its English-language title would suggest. The movie is a riff on the vampire genre in a similar way that What We Do in the Shadows is. They both poke fun at the blasé, mundane, and almost emo way in which we consume much of the vampire material that’s been produced this century. Because vampires have become synonymous with counterculture, often because the motifs and iconography of these monsters reflect that of the unimpressed teenage mindset.
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Fingernails
Fingernails, directed by Christos Nikou, stands as another strong addition to Apple TV+’s repertoire, blending elements of romance, drama, and comedy against the backdrop of a futuristic society grappling with the complexities of love. Starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White, the movie explores the fragility of relationships in a world where a single fingernail can determine the strength of a couple’s love.
Empire of Light
There is some remarkable cinematography and sound littered throughout Empire of Light, but the script written by Sam Mendes is way too weak in its foundation. The movie strains too hard to make you feel anything, and the end result is that you ultimately feel nothing.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Within just three films, Jane Schoenbrun has rocketed up the list of my favorite filmmakers. They are one of the few new-school filmmakers who effortlessly show they’ve grown up less on the classics of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s and more on Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, David Lynch, and the strange little corners of genre cinema that become formative when you’re young. Those influences have manifested themselves in sentimental, beautiful, and sometimes genuinely terrifying ways across each of their first three films, but Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma feels like the fullest expression of all of them at once: a wholehearted, deeply endearing love letter to teen slashers that somehow finds entirely new ground without simply recycling the genre’s greatest hits. It’s one of the most masterfully crafted movies I’ve seen in years, and one I haven’t been able to stop thinking about in the days since first seeing it.
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The Favourite
The Favourite sees director Yorgos Lanthimos recontextualizing 18th-century British royalty. A searing dark comedy featuring many of 2018s’s best performances, including Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel stands as one of the most ambitious and widely celebrated films in Wes Anderson’s career—a visual symphony of symmetry, color, and control. It marked a turning point for Anderson, both critically and stylistically, encapsulating nearly two decades of his evolving artistry into one meticulously crafted package. While it’s easy to see why The Grand Budapest Hotel has been called the quintessential Wes Anderson movie, there’s something about its ornate façade and heavily curated design that, for some viewers, keeps it just out of emotional reach.
100 Nights of Hero
There are scattered pleasures, mostly in the way the camera frames corridors and courtyards like illustration plates. They register as style rather than feeling. By the final stretch the plot is pushing characters around to make a point, and the point was clear an hour earlier. 100 Nights of Hero is not bad, it is simply thin. The ideas are heavy handed and the cast is stuck playing types.
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Materialists
Materialists feels like a transitional work. It shows Celine Song experimenting with scale, ensemble dynamics, and new narrative textures—but it lacks the intimacy and precision that defined her first film. It’s a movie with moments that flirt with those same highs in small doses, but one that ultimately falls short. Still, it leaves me hopeful: the emotional territory Song wants to chart is rare in contemporary cinema, and while Materialists stumbles, it’s a sign that she’s aiming high. Her best films are likely still ahead.
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