The Plot: What if Green Lantern, but True Detective, with liberal use of the F-word?

The Plot: A mind-hopping villain invades Spider-Man’s NYC as the web-slinger mutates and laughs in the face of superhero fatigue, to the tune of a billion dollars.

The Pitch: “The revolution will not be televised,” though it may be reduced to hold music as young people inherit the failures of those who fought it.

The Pitch: Lives and deaths intersect with a religious fervor in this Southern Gothic thriller, set in ‘50s and ‘60s Knockemstiff (surprisingly, not a fake place name).

The Plot: A boy goes zombie hunting with his father, then doctor hunting with his mother in a post-apocalyptic England where male aggression is the true contagion.

The Plot: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch secret agent Ethan Hunt save the world one last time from a nuke-happy AI.

The Plot: Two Mormon missionaries get trapped in a Hugh Grant character’s house as he argues against religion in favor of his own brand of militant atheism.

The Plot: A Texas farmgirl with showbiz dreams will let nothing stand in the way of her success, even if it means going on a killing spree.

The Plot: An ex-storm chaser heeds the call to adventure and returns to the Midwest, just in time to get caught up in a once-in-a-lifetime tornado outbreak.

The Plot: A podcast host gets sucked down the rabbit hole of an unsolved mystery in this Aussie one-hander from director Matt Vesely and screenwriter Lucy Campbell.

The Plot: The discovery of oil on Osage tribal land sets off a chain of murders in 1920s Oklahoma in director Martin Scorsese’s chilling non-fiction book adaptation.

Tinseltown’s latest superhero flick seems built as a time machine, but it runs more like a treadmill—or an assembly line in a nostalgia factory.