Best A24 Movies for story quality

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Best for story quality

You Can See Everything

5.0 attribute score

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

Safest pick

The Invite

4.5 attribute score

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

Best overall product

Backrooms

4.2 overall score

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

#1 You Can See Everything
5.0

What starts as a domestic portrait evolves into a much stranger inquiry, with unexpected shifts and reenactments that transform the meaning of earlier scenes.

Pros: originality, humor

#2 The Invite
4.5

The familiar dinner-party premise grows into a surprisingly layered exploration of marriage and desire. Most find the story close to perfectly executed, though some consider its deeper turns forced or...

Pros: humor, screenplay quality

Cons: score quality, runtime

#3 How to Make a Killing
3.7

The inheritance-murder premise has obvious appeal, but opinions split on whether the story remains engaging or becomes repetitive and implausible.

Pros: lead performance, humor

Cons: entertainment value, originality

#4 Backrooms
3.3

The premise and atmosphere are stronger than the conventional narrative holding them together. Some reviewers found the story emotionally coherent and compelling, while others saw an underbaked framework stretched around...

Pros: acting performance, scares

Cons: ending satisfaction, plot clarity

#5 Primetime
3.1

The behind-the-scenes ratings chase is inherently compelling, but the overall narrative draws substantial disagreement. Strong opening sections and character material are offset by unfocused side plots, familiar beats, and a...

Pros: lead performance, visual style

Cons: theme depth, story quality

#6 The Death of Robin Hood
3.0

The story is the main dividing line: supporters call it profound, moving, and inventive, while detractors find it thin, vague, and dramatically inert. Nearly everyone agrees it is a radical...

Pros: visual style, cinematography

Cons: story quality, pacing

#7 The Drama
2.5

The central story draws some viewers in with its provocative setup, but others find the narrative thin, confused, or unable to support the weight of its premise.

Pros: humor, theme depth

Cons: character development, screenplay quality

#8 Onslaught
1.8

Story is the film’s largest weakness. Across many responses it is called thin, undercooked, forgettable, needlessly complicated, or simply unable to support the style and violence around it.

Pros: lead performance, entertainment value

Cons: action sequences, ending satisfaction