Alpha

...while the average “Alpha” audience member is as likely to enlist in the army as viewers of “Captain Marvel,” they’re maybe more likely to want to see a sequel.

Through its complex structure, formed of different timelines and split realities, uncanny dreams and blurred memories, “Alpha” viscerally teases out the binds of love and trauma.

Here, Ducournau opts for a story both sprawling and soft — but if you’re willing to dredge through the swirling sands, it is just as complex and impactful as her previous offerings.

For all its cool stone, Alpha is not a cold film, and vibrates with life in the way Raw pulsed with desire and Titane with white-hot fury.

...a melancholy meditation on grief, heavily influenced by the AIDS epidemic.