Hundreds of Beavers (2024)

In this 19^th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by … defeating hundreds of beavers? Somewhere between Chaplin’s The Gold Rush and a Bugs Bunny cartoon, Hundreds of Beavers is a delightfully absurd romp from Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, the duo behind cult hit Lake Michigan Monster.

Perhaps Alexandra Heller-Nicholas of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists put it best: “[It] starts strange, gets stranger, and yet remains resolutely adorable […] embraces the defiant glee of art cinema and distills it into something so thoroughly pure and sincere that it is surely hard not to fall in love with it.”