The Best Sports Documentaries of 2019 so far
The Best Sports Documentaries of 2019 so far - or how sports can go from boring to brilliant in 3.2 seconds.
- #
- 3 Percent
Only 3% of candidates can make it to the other side.- - 10 Cloverfield Lane
A crazy man tries to convince his hostages he's saving them. - - 10x10 An abducter is the mouse in this intense cat and mouse game.
- A
- - Alien Covenant We return to Alien's roots and to Prometheus.
- - AlphaGo Google's doc in search of the perfect Go AI.
- - American Animals A doc about a heist gone horrifically and totally wrong.
- - Annihilation A woman enters Area X in search of her husband.
- - Antiviral When celebrity becomes a pathogen...
- - Arrival A linguist attempts to bridge the divide as aliens arrive.
- - Arq A couple caught in a loop while being perpetually attacked.
- - Atomic Blonde A spy is sent to Germany to recover a list of spy names.
- B
- - Baby Driver A get away driver is coerced into driving for a heist.
- - Bad Genius A Thai movie that discusses school testing and cheating.
- - Bad Times at El Royale 7 strangers in a closed box vying to survive.
- - Before Sunrise Two people strike up a chance encounter in Paris.
- - Book of Eli An apocalyptic story where a book must be delivered.
- - Belko Experiment A horrible office, survival of the fittest experiment.
- - The Big Short A tale of corruption and amorality.
- - Bird Box A terror that murders anyone that sees it.
- - Blade Runner 2049 A story of AI sentience and its consequences.
- - Blame Crucible meets Mean Girls in this highschool drama.
- - Blood Punch Think bloody Groundhog Day with a dose of crazy
- - Braid An inside out story about three tripping ladies.
- - Brightburn A dark, inside out Superman.
- - Bushwick a sudden civil war catches two people off guard.
- - Busters Mal Heart a crazy story of insanity and its epiphanies.
- C
- - Calibre 2 Men, a hunting accident, and then piles of wow.
- - Captive State Alien invasion and a grassroots uprising.
- - Caught A closed box story of a family and an alien invasion.
- - Certified Copy An couple of unknown relationship dialog.
- - Children of Men A child is born in a world where they aren't.
- - Circle Anyone that gets within his circle, dies.
- - Clouds of Sils Maria Two women spar and dance while preparing for a play.
- - Cloverfield Paradox This is Cloverfield's chaotic origin story in space.
- - Coherence An evening party is split into a million shards.
- - Comet A couple on a date converse about splintered timelines.
- - Containment An outbreak turns apartments into jail cells.
- - Cries For Syria Deeply disturbing documentary about Syria.
- - Creep A chat with alleged serial killer.
- - Creep 2 Creep but w/ gender dynamics added in.
- - A Cure For Wellness A community finds the cure for wellness - or does it?
- - The Cured Zombie movie about cured zombies, yes please!
- D
- - The Discovery Afterlife is discovered and suicide is now an epidemic.
- - Resolution Uber low budget time travel dystopian movie with spice.
- - Dunkirk A WWII drama to save a surrounded British force.
- E
- - The East A spy, and an anarchist group.
- - Edge of Tomorrow Fighting aliens with the power to see the future.
- - End of the Tour An author and a reporter have an amazing conversation.
- - Elizabeth Harvest A scientific honeymoon and its moral consequences.
- - The Endless Brothers return to cult they grew up in.
- - Exam 8 job candidates are in a fight for their lives.
- - Ex Machina A programmer is asked to evaluate a humanoid A.I.
- - Extinction A future incoming alien pogrom invasion mindjob
- F
- - Faults A reprogramming movie that is inside out.
- - The Favourite Queen Anne and the multifaceted chaos of court
- - First Reformed a spiritual journey in an extreme time.
- - The Fall a metaphysical explosion of ideas.
- - The Frame The line between reality and television wears thin.
- - Free Fire A closed box weapons sale goes horribly wrong.
- - Frequencies Students discover magic in every day words.
- - Forgotten A complex plot is unraveled around a person's mysterious identity.
- G
- - Get Out A black man meets his white girlfriend's parents.
- - A Ghost Story A couple struggles to let go across extreme distances.
- - The Ghoul policeman enters asylum to find a killer.
- - The Girl With All The Gifts A zombie girl with amazingly human traits upends the world.
- - The Guilty A cop gets a call from an abducted woman...
- - Gravity An astronaut is stranded in a crashing space station.
- - Green Room Crazy, Intense, closed box madness
- H
- - Haunting of Hill House Jump scares blended with brilliant familial drama.
- - Hell or High Water Two Brothers rob banks in order to save their ranch.
- - Hold the Dark No Country for Old Men but with evil wolves?
- - Hostiles A western where everyone learns something.
- I
- - I, Origins A scientific search for the afterlife?
- - I Am Mother Apocalyptic conversation about survival, and robots.
- - I Am Not Your Negro A dive into MLK Jr. and other's impact on America.
- - I Am The Pretty Thing... a dark modern and classical ghost story.
- - Icarus A crazy documentary that topples Russian Olympians.
- - I Dont Feel At Home... when a woman decides she's done with rudeness...
- - If Theres A Hell Below a strange indie film about spies and counterspies?
- - Incendies a truly intense middle eastern mind frack.
- - Inception A little film by Christopher Nolan, heard of it?
- - In Darkness A blind woman accidentally stumbles into insanity.
- - The Infinity Chamber Closed box movie that may or may not be real at all.
- - The Innocents Netflix show about shape shifting star crossed lovers.
- - Into the Forest Extremely realistic apocalypse subtleness.
- - The Invisible Guest A delightful Spanish onion who-done-it of a film.
- - The Invitation Starts with a premonition and ends with a huge bang.
- - Izzy Gets the F*!# Izzy just has to get herself across town.
- J
- - The Jacket A Vet time travels during controversial treatment.
- K
- - Killing of A Sacred Deer A family's dark morality tale and Greek tragedy.
- - The Kindergarten Teacher A teacher unravels helping her wunderkind student.
- L
- - Lady Macbeth An Elizabethan mind twist of who-done-it.
- - La La Land an almost Academy award winner with a crazy ending.
- - Land of Mine Post WWII story of retribution and inhumanity.
- - Life Crazy awesome film about a rogue killing life form.
- - The Little Stranger A hauntingly brilliant slow moving thriller
- - Lobster Possibly the craziest movie you might ever see.
- M
- - The Maus a violent story about painful memories.
- - Martha Marcy May... A woman controlled by a cult is not OK.
- - The Maus Couple lost in the Bosnian woods, what could go wrong?
- - Memento One of only a few perfect movies ever made. Epic.
- - Midnighters One little mistake spins an entire family out of control.
- - Midnight Special A child with powers might be the second coming.
- - Miss Sloane A brilliant fast talking Sorkin knockoff of a movie.
- - Mirage Spanish mindjobber that you can't miss.
- - Molly's Game Another fast talking Sorkin knockoff. Oh wait.
- - Morgan A strange woman with even stranger origins.
- - Mother! A story of Mother Earth, or God, or just random chaos?
- - Mr. Nobody A boy locked on a train platform considering life.
- - Music of Chance A story of luck and unluck, and of words and power.
- - My Cousin Rachel A vintage tale of madness, estates, and of love.
- N
- - Night Eats the World A tight closed box zombie movie.
- - No Country for... Postmodern cowboy movie. Full stop.
- O
- - The OA Nearly perfect story of the original angel & her origin.
- - Old Boy One of the crazies & intense stories I've ever reviewed.
- - The One I Love Best indie film I've ever seen? Must watch.
- - Operation Avalanche The story behind the fake moon landing. Wait... what?
- - Other Life A start up hacks the brain & chaos happens.
- P
- - The Party A play like movie that will keep you guessing.
- - The Perfection Mindjob about two perfectionist musicians.
- - Personal Shopper The Kristen Stewart ghost movie that blew my mind.
- - Phoenix Forgotten A found footage film about lights in Area 57.
- - Pi Numerology, and the search for the meaning of life.
- - The Gift Shop Banksy mindjobs us all in this crazy documentary.
- - Pontypool A closed box zombie film.
- - Predestination a crazy time travel movie with no beginning or end?
- - The Prestige The review that launched this website by itself.
- - Primer Nolan's infamous story of a murder told beginning to end.
- - Prospect A young hapless miner on foreign planet fights for survival.
- - Psychokinesis A super hero dad tries his best to help his daughter.
- R
- - Radius A man accidentally kills everything within a radius.
- - Realive How great would eternal life really be? Really?
- - Remainder Amnesia a loop and a bank heist to blow your mind.
- - Resolution A friend intervenes in his buddy's life with dire results.
- - Revenant Bear attacks, Frostbite, Indian attacks, and an Oscar.
- - The Ritual Friends dealing with a loss run from demons in the woods.
- - Russian Doll Repeating deaths creates a party from hell.
- S
- - Safety Not Guaranteed Man looking for someone to time travel with him.
- - The Shape of Water Woman intervenes to save merman beast in a test lab.
- - Shimmer Lake A murder told in reverse over the course of a week.
- - Sicario US and Cartels battle over drugs and revenge.
- - Side Effects Clever pharmaceutical mindjob or something else.
- - The Signal Teens track a signal to the end of the world.
- - Snowpiercer End of the world Thomas the Train adventures.
- - Sound of My Voice Two reporters investigate a time traveling prophetess?
- - Split M. Night back in business, with a scary MPD.
- - Spinning Man facts come into question in this murder mystery.
- - The Spring a woman that may just be thousands of years old.
- - Standoff at Sparrow Creek A cell group of militants begin downward spiraling.
- - Starfish Somber apocalyptic movie about mourning.
- - Stay Begins with a car crash and ends with a total mindjob.
- - Still A couple and a fountain of youth, and insanity.
- - Super Dark Times A few friends, a horrible accident and chaos.
- - The Survivalist A truly desperate post apocalypse survival story.
- - Synchronicity A time travel loop caught a couple & won't let go.
- T
- - Taboo Tom Hardy TV show about the East India Trading Co.
- - Take Shelter A father sees visions of the end of the world.
- - Tau An AI, a prisoner, and a man hellbent on glory.
- - Thelma A college student with frightening super powers.
- - They Look Like People Intense story of two friends and one's possible insanity?
- - Thirteenth Floor Layers of virtual realities collapse reality.
- - Thoroughbreds Heathers meets American Psycho and its awesome.
- - Timecrimes One of the great small scale time travel mindjob movies.
- - Trance A priceless painting is heisted, and then it goes missing.
- - Transit Literally no idea how to even start to summarize.
- - Triangle tightly wound loop mindjob of epic proportions.
- U
- - Under the Skin An alien devouring men? Maybe?
- - Unknown A factory full of cops and robbers with amnesia.
- - Unsane a woman is admitted to an asylum and shouldn't be?
- - Upgrade Robot mindjob ethics and philosophy primer.
- - Upstream Color Primer's Shane Carruth brings us more amazing...
- - Us Mindjob from Jordan Peele that is must see.
- - Us and Them The haves and the have nots plays out w/ hostages.
- V
- - Victória A psychological mindjob with twists galore.
- - Vietnam Ken Burns. Trent Reznor. And Vietnam War biopic.
- W
- - The Wall A 3 person mental chess game set in Iraq.
- - We've Forgotten... Two dystopian travelers see their marriage explode.
- - What Keeps You Alive A crazy psychopath movie unlike anything before.
- - Why Donald Cried A quirky, affecting drama of two un-friends.
- - Westworld Simply one of the best TV shows on television right now.
- - White Chamber The leader of the British uprising is interrogated.
- - Wild Tales Hahahahahah. Just watch it. All kinds of out of control.
- - The Wind A solitary western with demons running under its skin.
- - What Happened to Monday Dystopian clone murder mystery movie.
- Y
- - You Were Never Really Here The amazing less is more hitman movie.
- Z
- - Zero Days Mindblowing Stuxnet virus documentary.
- - Z for Zachariah The last 3 people in the world square off.
