3 Movies Like Incoming (2024)

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Chasing the feel of watching Incoming ? Here are the movies we recommend you watch right after.

This movie is hilarious. It presents a pleasant caricature of high school humor, proving there is a way to do 2000s trashy crude writing in a reimagined modern setting. Setups for punchlines and mini-arcs consistently have good and sensible payoffs, and every character up and down the cast feels focused in their own way. Because the writing had been cared for, characters and dialogue make the most of every segment they occupy and feel like they have a purpose, striking a balance between great jokes and a genuine sincerity in their messages, without feeling like either half existed just to balance out the other or just to keep things “cool.” The film comfortably takes its own advice: be yourself.

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, 2024

A big part of Strange Darling’s charm is its ability to surprise you with one twist after another, so it’s best not to get into too many details here. What we will say is that director J.T. Mollner and his cast execute those twists with great finesse, making sure not to waste even a second of your time. The non-linear approach might seem gimmicky at first, but once Mollner presents all the pieces of the puzzle, it ends up feeling like a satisfying payoff. Even if you manage to guess where the film is headed, it still makes for an entertaining watch. Willa Fitzgerald is especially captivating.

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Actor: Barbara Hershey, Bianca A. Santos, Ed Begley Jr., Eugenia Kuzmina, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Patric, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty, Robert Craighead, Steven Michael Quezada, Willa Fitzgerald

Director: JT Mollner

Rating: R

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, 2024

The plot of the Union feels insultingly childish. An undercover agency has to retrieve an important device before it falls into the “wrong” (i.e. non-Western) hands, and to achieve that, they absolutely must have Mike (Wahlberg) on their team. That nothing here seems plausible shouldn’t be the point--it’s an action movie anyway. But even the action isn’t thrilling. There’s no tension or buildup, no satisfying hits and falls. There’s nothing in here that you haven’t seen before. The potential saving grace lies in its A-lister leads, Wahlberg and Berry. They’re supposed to be lovers here but the chemistry they create is closer to “colleagues who have an unexplored spark” more than anything. The Union works as a mid-tier nostalgia-filled film. It’s a perfectly okay movie, neither bad nor good, which seems par for the course for streaming anyway.

Genre: Action, Comedy

Actor: Adam Collins, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alex Brightman, Alice Lee, Andrei Lenart, Anthony Thomas, Cain Aiden, Christian Yeung, Claire Ashton, Dana Delany, Daniel Joseph Woolf, Fahim Fazli, Guy Robbins, Halle Berry, J.K. Simmons, Jackie Earle Haley, Jag Patel, James McMenamin, Jen Jacob, Jeśka Pike, Jessica De Gouw, Juan Carlos Hernández, Julianna Kurokawa, Lorraine Bracco, Lucy Cork, Mark Wahlberg, Mike Colter, Nathan Hall, Obie Matthew, Patch Darragh, Riley Neldam, Robert John Gallagher, Robert Ryan, Stephane Fichet, Stephen Campbell Moore, Susan Fordham, Tommy Bayiokos

Director: Julian Farino

Rating: PG-13

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, 2024

This is confusing and not very good. The first line of the movie sounds like it should be something, cloaking everything in doubt. Turns out to be nothing. The movie really begins with the blurb, because that at least guides us toward a coherent story. What we end up with are a cast of unlikable characters and a bunch of twists that had little set-up or payoff to even register. I really don’t know what they’re trying to get at here. If the movie connects with you on a sexual level, I promise you there are shorter videos to watch. This is a better blurb than it is a movie, save yourself the time.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Actor: Alfonso Herrera, Ana Wills, Fernando Cattori, Juan Pablo Fuentes, Renata Manterola, Ximena Lamadrid

Director: Humberto Hinojosa

Rating: R

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