Best 2026 A24 Movies for originality

#1 The Invite
5.0

The story repeatedly swerves away from the most predictable version of its premise and complicates each character’s motives. Its surprises are a major pleasure even when the broad destination can...

Pros: humor, screenplay quality

Cons: score quality, runtime

#2 You Can See Everything
4.8

Reality-TV intimacy, staged recreations, and daring shifts of perspective turn a familiar scandal into something strikingly new. The film repeatedly changes what kind of story it is telling.

Pros: originality, humor

#3 Backrooms
4.4

Reviewers consistently describe the film as visually distinctive, culturally timely, and unlike most mainstream horror. Even detractors recognize the freshness of turning internet-born liminal imagery into a large-scale cinematic world.

Pros: acting performance, scares

Cons: ending satisfaction, plot clarity

#4 The Death of Robin Hood
4.2

The plot overturns familiar Robin Hood expectations by treating the legend as a lie and focusing on guilt, mortality, and the end of violence. That subversion is one of its...

Pros: visual style, cinematography

Cons: story quality, pacing

#5 The Drama
3.5

The premise is widely seen as bold and unusual, yet reactions split on whether that provocation feels genuinely fresh or more like a thin conceit stretched too far.

Pros: humor, theme depth

Cons: character development, screenplay quality

#6 Primetime
3.2

The feverish presentation feels distinctive, but the underlying media-satire ideas often recall earlier films and familiar cautionary tales about ambition. Its freshness comes more from form and subject than from...

Pros: lead performance, visual style

Cons: theme depth, story quality

#7 How to Make a Killing
2.6

Customers often find the murder-inheritance setup fun or fresh, while critics repeatedly point out how closely it echoes earlier films and familiar genre beats.

Pros: lead performance, humor

Cons: entertainment value, originality

#8 Onslaught
2.1

The central super-soldier siege concept has appeal, but multiple critics call the storytelling predictable, generic, or too familiar.

Pros: lead performance, entertainment value

Cons: action sequences, ending satisfaction