Best A24 Movies for writing quality

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Best for writing quality

The Invite

4.8 attribute score

Highest scored product for this attribute based on supporting review evidence.

Safest pick

How to Make a Killing

3.8 attribute score

Balances the attribute score, supporting reviews, and overall product strength.

Most evidence

The Drama

14 supporting reviews

Has the broadest review evidence for this attribute.

Best overall product

Backrooms

4.2 overall score

Strongest overall product among items with scored evidence for this attribute.

#1 The Invite
4.8

The screenplay is broadly celebrated as whip-smart, funny, adult, and emotionally perceptive. Its overlapping talk and carefully planted reveals are major strengths, though a few critics call it over-written or...

Pros: humor, screenplay quality

Cons: score quality, runtime

#2 How to Make a Killing
3.8

The script has clever ideas and occasional sharp scenes, but exposition, thin characterization, and underdeveloped themes keep it from fully landing.

Pros: lead performance, humor

Cons: entertainment value, originality

#3 Primetime
3.5

The script raises provocative questions about spectacle, ambition, and moral certainty, and its dark comedy can be sharp. Its weaker side is a tendency toward underdeveloped subplots, surface-level psychology, and...

Pros: lead performance, visual style

Cons: theme depth, story quality

#4 Backrooms
3.4

The screenplay earns praise for economical exposition, psychological ideas, and character interiority in its best passages. Its weaker sections rely on clunky explanations, uneven dialogue, and late lore that can...

Pros: acting performance, scares

Cons: ending satisfaction, plot clarity

#5 The Death of Robin Hood
3.1

The screenplay contains thoughtful ideas about storytelling, violence, and absolution, with some beautifully written exchanges. Critics are divided over whether it develops those ideas deeply enough.

Pros: visual style, cinematography

Cons: story quality, pacing

#6 The Drama
3.0

The screenplay is sharply divisive: some admire its nerve, structure, and dark-comedy setup, while others find the writing shallow, underdeveloped, or unable to interrogate its charged ideas.

Pros: humor, theme depth

Cons: character development, screenplay quality

#7 Onslaught
1.0

The script takes heavy criticism for clunky writing, thin development, and choices that leave potentially interesting characters and ideas underused.

Pros: lead performance, entertainment value

Cons: action sequences, ending satisfaction