10 Awesome Recent Movies You'll Never Watch Again
Sometimes one viewing is enough.
It's always a huge thrill to sit down and just be blown away by a great movie that makes you want to immediately revisit it, but not all great movies are created equal.
Not all terrific films are made to be endlessly rewatched, as sometimes the material or execution is tricky enough that viewers are likely to feel they got everything they needed out of it from a single viewing.
In that respect, these 10 recent movies were all bold, singular cinematic works which more than accomplished their goals, yet despite being well-received by critics and their own cinephile communities, each is nevertheless a film you'll likely never bother returning to.
Perhaps the material is just too damn bleak, maybe the runtime is too gruelling for its own good, or some strange artistic choices make it tough to want to go back there,
These films are all unmistakably great, but not everything is The Dark Knight - not everything begs you to obsessively rewatch it out of the sheer, pure desire to be entertained.
Sometimes watching an excellent film once and... moving on is what the heart wants - and it certainly is in these examples...
10. Beau Is Afraid
Whether you loved or hated Ari Aster's unhinged horror-comedy Beau Is Afraid, one thing's for sure - you won't forget it anytime soon.
It's hardly surprising that Aster's bold artistic swing was a massive box office flop, because a 179-minute nightmarish odyssey that literally feels like a three-hour panic attack just isn't going to appeal to most people.
And even accepting the brilliance of both Aster's uncompromising vision and Joaquin Phoenix's phenomenal performance, it's tough to persuade oneself to go through the whole thing again.
One of the most common complaints about the film is that Beau's (Phoenix) mid-film trek into the wilderness, where he stumbles across a travelling acting troupe, kills the story's pacing dead.
It's by far the most polarising part of an already wildly divisive movie, and so for many, they'll simply watch Beau Is Afraid a single, solitary time and then harbour a solid respect for it forever more, while never once entertaining the possibility of sitting through it again.