From Chinatown to Isla Nublar, Indiana Jones to The Matrix, box-office disasters to Best Picture follow-ups, Dan Mecca curates a selection of underrated sequels worth your time, ranging from the 1930s to the 2020s.

From scaling mountains and skyscrapers to hanging off planes and jumping between trains, Dan Mecca ranks the best action sequences from the Mission: Impossible franchise.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a tropical Brazilian noir, a Scott Pilgrim-esque coming-of-ager, a history-making character study and a couple of expectation-subverting horrors.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a cross-culture love affair, a decade-spanning queer musical, a genre-blending Brooklyn tapestry and more.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a baseball hangout, dystopian domesticity, a Capra-esque exploration of identity, Zambian magical realism and a secret mall apartment.

1999 is considered the greatest movie year of all time, but not all of its films had the immediate impact of The Matrix and The Sixth Sense. Dan Mecca highlights the year’s ravenous cannibals, sweltering Spike Lee summers and subversive adaptations of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare that slipped under the radar.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition features the return of Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy, a Cannes-winning Iranian drama, a handful of searing political documentaries and an ode to cinematic witches.

As the World Series kicks off, Dan Mecca presents a series of double features pairing five canonized baseball classics with under-the-radar gems worth seeking out. 

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition features social activist docs on unions and sexual assault reform, rich explorations of life online and on the road, some college reunion shenanigans and plenty of bone-crunching Indonesian action.