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Sydney Sweeney’s Immaculate is a cookie-cutter nunsploitation film with nothing to add to the genre but a couple of rosary-clad jump scares. The real miracle of the weekend was the surprise hit, Late Night with the Devil. 

To us, she’s a classic. The cheerleader who is in equal parts manipulative and ditzy, and who’ll probably die by the second act. For long stretches of the movie, I anticipated the ways Taffy would transition from attentive and sweet step-sister to traitor. However, the film’s trick is that Taffy isn’t the Heather Chandler of this tale.

I’ll say this about Netflix’s latest romantic comedy, Irish Wish: It’s a wonderfully glossy advertisement for Irish tourism. It’s got everything ChatGPT, and Americans, probably picture when they imagine Ireland: Quaint pubs, rolling hills covered with sheep, castles adorned with floral wallpaper, and a gorgeous redhead toasting with obscenely large glasses of Guinness! It even has a cute, if not entirely original, story line that moms everywhere will eat up. 

Whereas many modern big-budget movies feel like they have as much depth as a theme park ride premise, Dune and Dune: Part Two combine to reveal a fully formed world that’s wonder is in its details.