Most robot uprising stories end at the moment of maximum catastrophe. The servers go dark, the missiles fly, the last human falls. _I Am Mother_ opens in the aftermath and asks the question no one else in the genre seems interested in: so now what?

Ryan Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man is the first Benoit Blanc mystery that doesn’t feel like it’s having any fun—and that’s exactly the point. In a locked church where faith and certainty have been weaponized in equal measure, Johnson uses the playful locked-room structure to examine something deeply uncomfortable: the way we perform certainty in the face of doubt.

If I’m honest, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t feels like watching a magic act from the lobby. You can hear the applause, you can see the lights, but you’re missing the part where any of the tricks actually land.

A towering war film whose brilliance arrives late, but hits with the force of history itself.