20 Underrated Recent Movies You Might Have Missed
Sleep on these underappreciated recent movies at your peril.
The great agony and the great ecstasy of modern Hollywood is that audiences have more choice at their fingertips than ever before.
Whether at the multiplex or at home on streaming, thousands and thousands of great movies are within arm's reach at basically all times.
But such an embarrassment of riches in our current attention economy, where studios are battling all manner of screen content for our eyeballs, makes it easy for new movies to sadly fall through the cracks entirely.
And that's certainly true of these 20 recent films, none of which were among the most acclaimed or commercially successful releases of late, but absolutely deserve a look regardless.
That is to say, each of these films qualifies as underrated and underappreciated.
Perhaps they flopped at the box office and quickly slid into irrelevance, or received polarising reviews which turned off many potential viewers.
But these movies all took a chance and delivered something more interesting than mere reviews or box office can tease out on their own.
They're definitely not for everyone, but they might be for you, so give 'em a chance...
20. Roofman
In a just world, Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst would've both courted serious awards buzz for their performances in Roofman - a terrifically crafted dramedy based on the life of Jeffrey Manchester, a criminal who hid in a toy store while on the run from the police.
But it's not a just world, and so Roofman barely made a dent on the awards circuit, its only notable accolade being an Independent Spirit Award nod for Dunst.
Between that and its middling box office performance, it'd be easy to assume that Cianfrance's film fell way short of the mark, but that's just not true.
It's perhaps more a case of the film being tough to categorise - and definitely tough to market - given how nimbly it pinballs between comedy and sobering drama, yet never in a way that feels tonally jarring.
Tatum has proven himself to be a genuine acting heavyweight with the right material, while Dunst is as reliably brilliant as ever, in a film that's stupendously enjoyable while offering up some thoughtful observations on life in modern America.