This week’s movies cover crumbling traditions, fraught relationships, and lingering discontent—whether it's among aristocrats, friends, lovers, or sadomasochistic demons. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale relies on familiar beats and soothing nostalgia, while The Ritual and Hellraiser (both helmed by David Bruckner) confront personal trauma through horror lenses, albeit with mixed success. Meanwhile, The Threesome and Splitsville explore modern love’s contradictions—invested, intriguing, but ultimately undercooked. Across genres, emotional honesty collides with structural limitations.

This week’s movies cover fractured identities and moral grey zones—from Minority Report’s faded futurism to The Guest’s synth-soaked menace, each film wrestles with perception versus truth. Major League injects levity into defiance, while Circle strips humanity to its mechanical core. Adulthood closes things out with flawed but heartfelt awkwardness, where family bonds meet guilt and self-preservation. Collectively, they trace how conviction—personal, moral, or emotional—can erode or endure under pressure.

This week’s movies cover the darker and stickier corners of horror, where love, identity, and grotesque transformation intertwine—sometimes humorously, often disturbingly. From Slither’s slimy metaphor for marital suffocation to Together’s subtle critique on codependency, relationships turn monstrous in different ways. Hellraiser and Grafted explore bodily corruption with varying success, while Tusk shows how tone can make or break a twisted concept. Despite uneven execution, each film wrestles with transformation and what makes us human—or not.

From animated oceans to ghost-infested homes, this week’s films explore how people navigate love, loss, and meaning. Finding Nemo is a heartfelt return to Pixar’s golden age, rich with emotional resonance and father-son tenderness. The Life of Chuck and On the Count of Three both flirt with mortality and memory, one quiet and poetic, the other more brash and probing. Meanwhile, Bring Her Back delivers disturbing foster horror, and Alvin and the Chipmunks… exists.