With HBO’s hit psychological drama Euphoria concluding last month with its third and final season, fans have begun exploring other similarly intriguing titles featuring the show’s lead stars. As a result, Sydney Sweeney, who portrayed the hypersexualized Cassie throughout the series’ run from June 16, 2019, to May 31, 2026, is enjoying renewed interest through her 2025 neo-noir thriller. Amid the attention, fans are also anticipating the actress’ return to the big screen, as her next project, The Custom of the Country, also starring Leo Woodall, is expected sometime next year.
Released in theaters on June 6, 2025, Sweeney’s stylish thriller Echo Valley sees her portray Claire Garrett, a troubled drug addict who has been in and out of rehab. The film, directed by Michael Pearce and written by Brad Ingelsby, also stars Julianne Moore as Kate Garrett, Claire’s mother and a horse trainer who, while reeling from the loss of her wife, struggles to reconnect with her daughter while helping her cover up a murder. Other stars featured in the film are Domhnall Gleeson, Kyle MacLachlan, and Fiona Shaw.
Echo Valley debuted on Apple TV seven days after its theatrical release and has since surged up the platform’s charts, occasionally dropping off the trending list entirely before climbing back up again. However, as of this publication, the bingeworthy thriller is attracting fresh attention worldwide, including in the United States. Recently, Echo Valley ranked as the #1 movie stateside on Apple TV, dethroning the mega-hit F1, while on the global scale, it currently holds the second spot.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
Is Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Echo Valley’ Worth Watching?
In the 53% Rotten Tomatoes-scored thriller, Kate is struggling to make ends meet running her farm, Echo Valley, in southern Pennsylvania and seeks financial help from her ex-husband, Richard. Richard does come to her aid but lectures her for wasting her money on their daughter Claire. Speaking of which, Claire suddenly returns home covered in blood, claiming she accidentally killed her boyfriend, Ryan (Edmund Donovan), during an argument. Desperate to protect her daughter, Kate helps dispose of what she believes is the boyfriend’s body and even pays off Claire’s dangerous drug dealer, Jackie Lawson (Gleeson).
However, Kate later discovers she was manipulated: Claire’s boyfriend is actually alive, and the body belonged to a local addict, Greg Kaminski, who overdosed on fentanyl Ryan dealt him. As the drug dealer begins blackmailing her, Kate devises an elaborate plan to frame him for the crime and reclaim control of her life. Producers of Echo Valley include Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Ingelsby, and Kevin J. Walsh.
Echo Valley streams on Apple TV.
Release Date
June 13, 2025
Director
Michael Pearce
Writers
Brad Ingelsby
Producers
Kevin J. Walsh, Ridley Scott, Brad Ingelsby, Michael A. Pruss
