Movies like Utopia

“Utopia (2024) is a 2020s American sci-fi-thriller that reframes neon-noir lineage as a private rescue mission inside a simulated amusement of competing realities. The core conflict pairs a soldier’s search for a missing wife with a visual grammar of high-contrast chiaroscuro, slick digital textures, and subjective camera moves that make spectacle operative in the plot. Utopia argues that spectacle can be investigatory: it uses hallucinatory mise-en-scène to expose how systems of illusion entangle grief, agency, and exploitation.”