Movies worth watching. Stories worth talking about.

Missing transforms searches, messages and camera feeds into an ingenious suspense machine, with Storm Reid giving its digital detective work urgency and heart.

Mickey Rourke’s vulnerable performance and Darren Aronofsky’s stripped-back direction turn a familiar comeback framework into a bruising tragedy.

Alfonso Cuarón’s sexually candid road movie turns adolescent swagger into something warmer, sadder and socially alert.

Groundhog Day remains a sharp, warm time-loop comedy because it treats repetition as a test of character rather than a puzzle to solve, although its broad opening and tidy romantic turn soften the premise’s stranger possibilities.

Edward Norton’s commanding performance makes American History X a disturbing study of hatred sold as identity and community, even when its psychological development lacks nuance.

Christopher Nolan makes Batman’s origin feel psychologically earned, physically tangible and genuinely mythic, even if the action occasionally loses clarity.