10 best anti-Valentine's Day movies to stream now

If Valentine’s Day makes you cranky or simply feels hollow, these films offer darker, sharper takes on love — from noir classics to recent horror. They’re aimed at anyone who finds the holiday commercial, confining, or just not for them. Highlights include Ari Aster’s Midsommar, an unnerving horror about a disintegrating couple who encounter a secretive Swedish commune; Danny DeVito’s dark comedy The War of the Roses, where a petty divorce escalates into escalating one-upmanship; and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee’s scorched play brought to screen as a nightmarish dinner that exposes a long, fraught marriage.

Other picks span genres: the gory, tongue-in-cheek Ready or Not; Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal The Lobster, set in an institution that forces people into couples; Linda Fiorentino’s ruthless heroine in The Last Seduction; Takashi Miike’s shocking Audition; the psychological thriller Gaslight; and the tense queer horror What Keeps You Alive.

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