7 Movies Like The Crow (2024)

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

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, 2024

Coming of age films are a staple in cinema, but rare is a great depiction of growing up on the internet, chatting with friends, and learning about the world through just a small screen. Dìdi is one of those rare films that remembers that pivotal era, which is why it’s often likened to Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, but Sean Wang depicts a more angsty than anxious Asian American kid with a mother and a grandmother less able to relate to the wider Western town they live in, and with nothing he wants to do but to skate, shoot skating, and try to fit in with people he thinks are cool. It’s both funny and self-critical, as if Wang was looking back to remember the times he screwed up, but it’s also just comforting to watch him own up to who he really is, even if it doesn’t garner the exact response he’s been hoping for. It’s also precisely why Dìdi found its audience.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Actor: Cameron Foxly, Chang Li Hua, Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Joziah Lagonoy, Macaela Parker, Shirley Chen, Spike Jonze, Stephanie Hsu

Director: Sean Wang

Rating: R

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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

Before she captivated the film world with her performance in Scorcese’s crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone starred in Erica Tremblay’s feature film debut Fancy Dance, earlier in 2023. It’s a tragic drama, wherein Gladstone portrays Jax, a lesbian woman dealing with the government that failed to find her sister, and that currently seeks to transfer her niece’s custody to her white father. But it’s also an uplifting drama, one that celebrates the connection between Jax and her niece Roki, the Cayuga culture and language, and the connection with their community and tribe that continues to persist despite state disenfranchisement. Pacing issues do make the film a tad rushed, but nevertheless, Fancy Dance is a subtle and poignant debut, made much more grounded with the excellent lead performances.

Genre: Drama

Actor: Arianne Martin, Audrey Wasilewski, Colleen Elizabeth Miller, Cory Hart, Crystle Lightning, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Jason Alan Smith, Lily Gladstone, Patrice Fisher, Ryan Begay, Shea Whigham, Tamara Podemski

Director: Erica Tremblay

Rating: R

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, 2024

The story here is kept stripped down and tense: just a capable hero trying to stand up to the big bad. We want to root for his efforts, but find no joy in it. We feel him be bold while holding back, creating more tension that we don’t quite know how to temper. So much of the story taking place in everyday government buildings pushes the atmosphere from tense to quite frankly depressing. Just when it seems like it’s too damn much, the 2nd act trails off into a more prodding action film, but by that point the film has left its mark enough. All in all, a suspenseful, poignant ride with decent action film tropes to prevent you from dissociating.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Actor: Aaron Pierre, Al Vicente, AnnaSophia Robb, Brannon Cross, C.J. LeBlanc, Caleb J. Thaggard, Charlie Talbert, Chelsea Bryan, Dana Lee, Daniel Chung, David Denman, Don Johnson, Emory Cohen, Harlon Miller, James Cromwell, Leslie Nipkow, Matthew Rimmer, Oscar Gale, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Steve Zissis, Terence Rosemore, Zsané Jhé

Director: Jeremy Saulnier

Rating: R

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With a great cast, a relevant story, and a stirring romance, The Boxer is all set to be a great film, but the resulting feature feels like a letdown. Irish director Jim Sheridan has teamed up with English actor Daniel Day Lewis for a feature depicting the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and for the most part, it’s decently made, but the film struggles to balance the romance and the politics of its story, with Day Lewis’ boxing lagging behind. There are plenty of interesting threads here– the right to self-determination, on both the individual and national level, the loss of youth, and the way war makes cities turn on themselves– which are all emotionally carried by the performances, but the structure fails to organize these ideas into a daring and cohesive statement. The Boxer isn’t a terrible watch, but it just feels like it could have delved more deeply into the conflict, or better yet, could have been at least two separate movies.

Genre: Drama, Romance

Actor: Brian Cox, Brian Milligan, Britta Smith, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Hayman, Des Braiden, Don Foley, Eleanor Methven, Emily Watson, Frances Tomelty, Gavin Kennedy, Gerard McSorley, Ian McElhinney, Jer O'Leary, Joan Sheehy, John Cowley, John Wall, Ken Stott, Kenneth Cranham, Liam Carney, Lorraine Pilkington, Maria McDermottroe, Mark Mulholland, Mick Tohill, Niall Shanahan, Nye Heron, Paul Ronan, Peter Sheridan, Tom Bell, Tom Maguire, Veronica Duffy, Vinny Murphy

Director: Jim Sheridan

Rating: R

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, 2024

I’m sure the novel Uglies is based on makes a lot more sense since it has a lot of space to world-build and explore themes like external beauty, class, and identity. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the movie Uglies, which is almost impressively out of date in look and tone. The CGI is 2000s-level wonky and the premise is unconvincing. You’re telling me these Hollywood kids are supposed to be ugly? So ugly that they’re nicknamed after their defects— “Nose,” “Skinny,” and “Squint”? What would they call normal-looking people like us? Slurs? And don’t get me started on their “pretty” versions. It’s literally just them with layers of makeup and a touch of Botox, which I suppose could be the point, but also…just wear makeup? It’s mind-numbingly confusing. The world of the Uglies doesn’t even seem that bad—they’re fed, roomed, allowed to explore their environment, and create friendships. A lot of people in the real world would kill for that level of comfort. If freethought is what’s being killed here, then they should have focused on that more. Ironically, the movie itself seems too preoccupied with looks to get that, so what we get instead is this half-baked mess.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Actor: Alex D. Jennings, Brett Hoyle, Brianne Tju, Charmin Lee, Chase Stokes, Dutch Johnson, Gabriella Garcia, Jan Luis Castellanos, Jay DeVon Johnson, Jessica Craig, Jessica Galinas, Jillian Murray, Joey King, Jordan Sherley, Keith Powers, Kelly Gale, Kevin Miles, Laverne Cox, Lindsay Rootare, Luke Eisner, Quintin Mims, Robert Palmer Watkins, Sarah Vattano, Will Poston, Zamani Wilder

Director: McG

Rating: PG-13

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, 2024

A screwball comedy following two crass female cops sounds, well, nice. But without a compelling mystery, believable chemistry, and funny jokes, Nice Girls fails to live up to its name. The crime that drives the movie’s plot feels flimsy and Disney-esque, a formula of a mystery you’ve seen a hundred times before. The chemistry between Leo and Melanie seems nonexistent. Yes, they’re capable actors who do especially well in their action scenes, but together, they fail to create a memorable spark. And then there are the jokes, which I want to believe are lost in translation instead of just plain unfunny. They feel dated in their observations but current because of the context (they’re often racial or political), but they never seem to land. None of the other parts of the film seem to. It’s a great idea—not since Spy have I seen such a valiant attempt at a female crime-busting duo—but it ultimately fails to deliver.

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Actor: Alice Taglioni, Antoine Duléry, Baptiste Lecaplain, Benjamin Baroche, Franz Lang, Jess Liaudin, Katrina Durden, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Noémie Lvovsky, Stefi Celma

Director: Noémie Saglio

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