Predator: Badlands offers up a PG-13 sci-fi buddy story that feels more like a Star Wars side quest than a continuation of the spine-ripping Predator universe.

Make some room on your top 10 list because Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a frantic, funny, and heartfelt father-daughter story that feels incredibly relevant in our current political climate.

We’ve seen cinematic universes, supernatural stories, and otherworldly action heroes a million times, but Dominic Arun’s Lokah: Chapter 1 – Chandra gives us a refreshing and meticulously-made take on the superhero genre.

Writer-director Zach Cregger had a lot to live up to after his solo directorial debut, Barbarian. His second film, Weapons, gives us a tense mystery about missing children and a town coming unglued.