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The Surfer

2025 · Film · 100 min

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan

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A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.

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  1. PositivealternatetwoMar 16, 2026

    Recent good movies, just going in release order off my letterboxd, although I have to be careful to include only "Hollywood" here:

    - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - beautifully shot and a beautiful theme about what humanity is

    - One Battle After Another - it's PTA, all his movies are good

    - Bugonia - incredible dark comedy

    - Weapons - fun little horror comedy movie

    - Sinners - just won an oscar for the soundtrack, not a perfect movie but a fun watch with some incredible scenes

    - Companion

    - Nosferatu - incredibly atmospheric

    - The Surfer - total trip with good old Nicholas Cage

    - Love Lies Bleeding - just a fun, a bit crazy movie

    - Dream Scenario - another trippy Cage movie

    - Poor Things

    - Oppenheimer ...

    - Renfield

    - The Menu

    - The Banshees of Insherin

    - Barbarian (same director as Weapons)

    - Prey

    - Bullet Train - fun action movie

    - The Northman

    - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

    - Everything Everywhere All At Once

    - The Invisible Man - most effective horror movie I've ever seen

    - The Gentlemen

    - Joker -how close can you get to looking like Taxi Driver without being Taxi Driver ...

    - The Vast of Night - some scenes that really draw you in and pretty nostalgic

    in 2019 now, so I won't continue, but there are plenty of good movies made nowadays, and I won't say I've seen even a close amount of them from the past few years. Of course I'm watching these at home, not in theatres, so that's certainly an argument.