WKNDwatchlist: Cold Storage, The Holdovers and Uncut Gems

This week, we journey from panic-fueled, subterranean bio-terror and soulful, bittersweet holiday isolation to relentless, adrenaline-soaked Manhattan hustle in Critical Mass.

Cold Storage

Cold Storage is a fast-paced, darkly funny sci-fi thriller that turns bio-containment breach into pure popcorn entertainment. When an underground facility unleashes a parasitic organism, a retired operative races to subvert a looming outbreak. Blending body-horror grit with comic book lashings and creature-feature mayhem, it’s a delightfully fun often tense and claustrophobic thrill ride.

The Holdovers

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is a warm, bittersweet comedy-drama with the soulful vibrations of 1970s American cinema. Paul Giamatti is brilliant as a curmudgeonly prep school teacher babysitting stranded souls over the holidays. Acerbic, deeply touching and beautifully acted, it finds unexpected grace and genuine connection in attempts to curb their loneliness.

Uncut Gems is a relentless, high-stakes pressure cooker from the Safdie brothers. Adam Sandler delivers a career-best performance as a brazen, fast-talking jeweler gambling his life away in New York’s cutthroat underground. Gritty, manic and pulsing with dirty urgency, it’s a brilliant, edge-of-your-seat masterclass in pure cinematic adrenaline.