The New Cult Canon: 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer'
Yorgos Lanthimos' dry black comedy turns a Greek myth about family sacrifice into potent modern allegory.
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The New Cult Canon: 'Unfriended' ✦
Through a conceit that confines the action to a teenage girl's monitor desktop, this horror film does its part to reinvent the medium for the masses.
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The New Cult Canon: 'The Duke of Burgundy'
Peter Strickland's meticulously stylized kink connects erotic role-play to the negotiation of long-term relationships.
The New Cult Canon: ‘The Empty Man’
An unusual horror film taps into an of-the-moment sense of disconnection and confusion.
The New Cult Canon: 'Memories of Murder'
Bong Joon-ho's tonally daring procedural revisits South Korea's first serial murder case.
The New Cult Canon: 'Support the Girls'
Andrew Bujalski's comedy about a day-in-the-life of a boobs-and-brews "breastaurant" is one of the great modern films about American labor.