Last Option
2026 · 11m
Directed by Don-Dimitri Joseph
Genres: crime, dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Daniel, a gifted psychic who can see into the future but is an out-of-luck millennial, meets eccentric homeless Josie Williams and together they embark on a journey of committing burglaries.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A psychic millennial and a homeless woman robbing people together—it's exactly the kind of premise that sounds ridiculous until you realize it's the only honest way to tell this story. Joseph swings for the fences with the tonal whiplash and absurdist logic that makes every other scout nervous, which is precisely why it works.
The film wants to toggle between whimsy and crime thriller, but the formal architecture doesn't quite justify the tonal shifts; the editing feels more serviceable than considered, and the genre hybridity reads more as uncertainty than intentional lineage-play.
The casting of Josie Williams as the moral anchor of a burglary-spree movie is the choice that makes this land—she grounds the absurdity with such specificity that the whole rickety premise becomes believable, and you can feel Joseph's entire budget working in that single performance decision.