Set to premiere at the 75th Berlin Film Festival next month, Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited Parasite followup finally sees the light of day after countless delays. The South Korean maestro has always had a penchant for sci-fi (see also: Okja and Snowpiercer), and his next Hollywood production leans further into the genre, as an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s bleakley comedic novel Mickey7. Set on a frigid off-world colony, the zany genre comedy Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson as an employee considered so disposable that each time he dies at work, he’s usurped by his own clone. The film also features several prominent Korean American stars; it reunites Bong with his Okja actor Steven Yeun, and is his first collaboration with comedian and Fargo and Asteroid City actor Steve Park.

A Nice Indian Boy (April 4)

South Asian diaspora culture clash movies are a dime a dozen, but Roshan Sethi’s A Nice Indian Boy—which premiered at SXSW last year—approaches the genre with a twist. Written by Eric Randall Madhuri Shekar (from Shekar’s play of the same name), it tells the story of a reclusive, gay Indian doctor (Karan Soni) who brings home a white Indian adoptee (Jonathan Groff) to his suspicious parents. The unique rom com provides surprising reflections on culture, family, and belonging by filtering its story, in self-aware fashion, through the tropes of Bollywood romance. It’s among the funniest films of its kind, and also the most moving. (Full review)

Materialists (summer/fall 2025)

Director Celine Song.

Matthew Dunivan

Little is known about the plot of A24’s Materialists—which wrapped filming back in June—but it happens to be Celine Song’s highly anticipated follow up to Past Lives, her Oscar-nominated Korean American spellbinder. With her new film set to follow “a professional matchmaker who gets involved with a wealthy man but still harbors feelings for the broke actor-waiter she left behind,” we’re likely in for another complicated love triangle, this time starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. Song’s deft dramatic hand, and her gentle approach to rigorous emotional dilemmas, makes her one of American indie cinema’s most exciting new voices, so expect a major festival bow for her sophomore effort.