Movies like May December

“May December (2023) is a 2020s United States character drama that stages a fraught collision between past celebrity and private intimacy. It compresses the couple's public-versus-private rupture into chiaroscuro framing, selective depth staging, and handheld incursions that make representation itself a contested site. The film asserts that mediated desire unsettles domestic ethics and therefore demands critical scrutiny rather than sentimental exculpation.”