Strange Darling

Director: JT Mollner

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22375054

Review: Surprising and exhilerating all the way through with a fun approach to storytelling and an impressive central performance.

Watch it if: You're ok with something fairly visceral.

And if you liked: Longlegs, Pearl, Let the Corpses Tan

Alien: Romulus

Director: Fede Alvarez

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18412256

Review: A good setup and basic throughline completely destroyed by fan-service references and inept actor recreation.

Watch it if: You're ok with something thats themes are completely at odds with how it was made.

And if you liked: Alien, Alien: Resurrection

Cuckoo

Director: Tilman Singer

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12349832

Review: Eerie in the right ways with a story that pulls you in with mystery and an excellent central performance.

Watch it if: You can handle some fairly nasty body horror.

And if you liked: The X-Files, The Brood, Splice

Lynch/Oz

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15399286

Review: An intriguing and fun watch laid out in an interesting manner filled with plenty of interesting tid-bits.

Watch it if: You like digging deep into film interpretation.

And if you liked: Room 237, The Films of David Lynch

Torn Curtain

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061107

Review: Intriguing and lush until its premise is fully revealed when it becomes more of a series of interesting scenes than an overall successful story.

Watch it if: You're interested in expanding your Hitchcock viewing past the obvious options.

And if you liked: The 39 Steps, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Trap

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26753003

Review: Gets a little baggy in the third act but never fully loses its electrifying energy and sense of thrill.

Watch it if: You want something that's driven by the fun the lead actor is having.

And if you liked: Dexter, Split

The Birds

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869

Review: Reasonably one note once it gets going but inventive, creative and intense within each sequence as it goes.

Watch it if: You've somehow never seen it like me.

And if you liked: Night of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Check this out: The Birds

Deadpool & Wolverine

Director: Shawn Levy

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6263850

Review: Manages to pull off a decent emotional arc while throwing everything at the wall in terms of references and irreverant humour.

Watch it if: You're locked in with the whole Marvel thing.

And if you liked: Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

North by Northwest

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125

Review: A little baggy in parts but a fun romp that pulls you through each setpiece with a good sense of thrust.

Watch it if: You've somehow never seen it like me.

And if you liked: The Man Who Knew Too Little, The 39 Steps, 60s James Bond

Dial M for Murder

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046912

Review: A gripping story that pulls you in immediately with plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing all the way to the end.

Watch it if: You enjoy something dripping with plot.

And if you liked: Strangers on a Train, Rear Window

Check this out: Dial M for Murder