The Humans (2021)

For Thanksgiving dinner, Beanie Feldstein invites her extended family to her new, currently unfurnished apartment that she shares with her partner Steven Yeun. Each of the family members is struggling with job and relationship issues and the feelings of isolation and unhappiness that comes with each. The dark, rundown apartment with its convoluted floorplan exacerbates how those feelings come across. The cast is top-notch with with Feldstein and Yeun joined by parents Richard Jenkins and Jayne Houdyshell, dementia-stricken grandmother June Squibb, and sister Amy Schumer. I don’t know why Thanksgiving films universally deal with family tension (it makes it hard to find something to relax to on the holiday), but this fits firmly in with the best of the genre.