In case the end of the world didn’t already feel close, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die makes it feel inevitable. Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, Rango) returns after a nine-year absence with a film that is overstuffed, overlong, and chaotic, and yet still strangely compelling. It’s not a crowd-pleasing blockbuster. It’s something messier, riskier, and far more interesting, and I can smell a cult film in the making.

In this science fiction action-comedy, a man from the…

Sirāt is one of the most visceral and hypnotic nominees at this year’s Academy Awards, earning nods for Best International Feature and Best Sound. The setup is simple: a father and son travel to a remote rave in Morocco searching for their missing daughter and sister. They fall in with a group of ravers and follow them deeper into the desert. From there, the film descends and never looks back. The title references the bridge between heaven and hell, and…