He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
This November, David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino‘s hotly anticipated The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth will get an extended run in IMAX theaters ahead of its Netflix debut. But before the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spin-off’s arrival, the streamer is releasing another major awards contender theatrically. Netflix has changed its tune regarding theatrical releases in recent months, especially after its failed bid for Warner Bros. With next year’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew being treated as a big-screen release by Netflix, the future of the company certainly looks nothing like it did in the last decade. Netflix has experimented with limited theatrical runs on a few occasions, but the recent La Bola Negra marked the start of a new era for the streamer. This streak of giving proper theatrical rollouts to handpicked titles and reporting their box-office grosses will continue on October 30 with a new release.
The movie in question is directed by veteran Netflix collaborator Peter Berg, who previously worked with the company on the action comedy film Spenser Confidential, the Western limited series American Primeval, and the 2023 series Painkiller. The new movie, a WWII drama based on a true story, comes on the heels of hit WWII content such as Nuremberg, which grossed around $70 million globally last year; the sleeper hit Pressure, which holds a 95% audience score on Netflix; and the documentary series World War II with Tom Hanks, which emerged as a PVOD sensation this summer.
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
Here’s When the New WWII Movie Arrives in Theaters
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Image via NetflixWe’re talking, of course, about the upcoming movie The Mosquito Bowl. Starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Galitzine, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis, the movie follows soldiers who participate in a historic football game in the days leading up to the Battle of Okinawa. Berg has told both military and sports-based stories in the past, in the show Friday Night Lights and the movies Lone Survivor and Battleship. The Mosquito Bowl will be released theatrically on October 30 and on Netflix on November 25. The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth will be released on IMAX screens on November 25, followed by a streaming debut on Netflix on December 23. La Bola Negra is currently playing in limited theatrical release and will debut on Netflix on December 2, having received a record 47-day theatrical run. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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