Its unsettling, haunting, and undoubtedly unique among other films in the fantasy genre.

Of the two 2022 releases,Pearlis perhaps the stronger film overall, thoughXshould also get an honorable mention.

Its not an easy watch, but it is thoroughly absorbing and perhaps even soul-shattering.

Sir Gawain lifting his axe to the sky in The Green Knight (2021)

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David Von Erich (Harris Dickinson) performing the titular wrestling move in The Iron Claw

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Sophie Wilde as Mia possessed by a spirit in Talk to Me

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The woman faces to the right, wearing a fur coat in Under the Skin

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Mia Goth doing the hush sign while looking down in Pearl (2022)

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Joe Cole’s character, Reece, pointing a gun at someone off screen in ‘Green Room’ while Anton Yelchin, Imogeen Poots, Callum Tanner, and Alia Shawkat watch on.

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Christian and Dani watching horrified during the ättestupa ceremony in Midsommar

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TImothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan in Lady-Bird

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