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The Accountant 2 (2025) 78% 2.5/5 “The juxtaposition of a buddy road comedy and grim action undermines the overall effort, a kind of inconsistency made worse by a plot that cannot withstand the gentlest scrutiny.” – Spectrum Culture Apr 25, 2025 Full Review It Feeds (2025) 85% 2.5/5 “All the elements are in place, including the performances, although the whole is less than the sum of its parts. How could it be greater than the sum of its parts? That’s the difference between a great artist and a competent craftsman. ” – Spectrum Culture Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 98% “A crowd-pleasing mash-up of musical and horror, Sinners is an unabashedly horny movie with strong performances and a masterful command of tone that explores the use of music as a tool of cultural appropriation.” – Washington City Paper Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% 4/5 “There is no background music, and the camera stays focused on everyone’s immediate reality. You think they will cut away, but instead Warfare lingers and lingers. These in-between spaces, this refusal to cut away to advance the story, are unique.” – Spectrum Culture Apr 11, 2025 Full Review The Luckiest Man in America (2024) 66% 2.5/5 “The story of this game show contestant is remarkable without any embellishment, so it is surprising the director opts for revisions that sanitize his strange, complicated history.” – Spectrum Culture Apr 7, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 84% “Say what you will about Marley & Me, a weepy film with a maudlin ending, but at least it has the guts to show the honest messiness, the frustration, and the joy of canine friends, as well as their owners, that The Friend does not. ” – Washington City Paper Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 95% 3.5/5 “Patricia Highsmith would find this fascinating. The key difference, as with the director’s previous films like Stranger by the Lake, is a matter-of-fact approach to sexuality that can be funny or oddly touching, sometimes in the same scene.” – Spectrum Culture Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Ash (2025) 73% “The middle act may test your patience (unless, of course, you take some kind of mind-altering substance before sitting down to watch), but the intensity of the climax more than makes up for it.” – Washington City Paper Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (2024) 3.5/5 “Q narrates her entire story, and she does not pull punches when talking about the dark episodes of her past. Candid and sometimes funny, she is a natural storyteller so the finest scenes involve her revealing one extraordinary detail after another.” – Spectrum Culture Mar 24, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “Weirder and maybe more provocative than Parasite, an unabashedly political sci-fi parable and a disgusting, sexy space adventure that critiques everything from food scarcity to labor laws. Bond's ideas, however, can sometimes get the better of him.” – Washington City Paper Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Last Breath (2025) 80% 3.5/5 “There are no histrionics or unrealistic displays of heroism. By filming with clarity so we always understand each challenge, director Alex Parkinson generates ample suspense. ” – Spectrum Culture Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Fidil Ghorm (2024) “The story unfolds like a guileless story for children, and the trouble is that the ideal audience—precocious younger viewers with artistic tendencies—may be scared off by the subtitles.” – Washington City Paper Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Money (2024) “Think of an Irish riff on Blood Simple, where the greed of ordinary people puts them in an extraordinary situation, and violence seems to be their only solution.” – Washington City Paper Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Amongst the Wolves (2024) “Having made a film that is unsure whether it wants to be a socially conscious drama or a genre film, O’Connor proves to be master of neither.” – Washington City Paper Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Kathleen Is Here (2024) “The latter half of Kathleen Is Here unfolds like a thriller. Like the Marilyn Monroe vehicle Don’t Bother to Knock, writer and director Eva Birthistle weaponizes our natural sympathies against us. ” – Washington City Paper Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 78% “The Monkey is a playfully sinister exploration of morality, and a reminder that—in the hands of the right director—blood remains the funniest bodily fluid.” – Washington City Paper Feb 24, 2025 Full Review Armand (2024) 75% 2/5 “Discursive vignettes unfold like a parody of an art film. All the actors dutifully follow the film off a cliff, and their committed performances only underscore that the unresolved story fails them.” – Spectrum Culture Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Renner (2025) 42% 2/5 “Either way, the various fake-outs and twists are not remotely consistent with the personality of the characters. Inspiring little more than a shrug, it ends on an inert note where it is a struggle, maybe even impossible, to care about anything’s fate. ” – Spectrum Culture Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Round the Decay (2025) 2/5 “It is not such a fiasco that it can be embraced as kitsch, and still so amateurish it is never genuinely scary. ” – Spectrum Culture Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% 4/5 “A fun subversion of modern relationships, Companion is a perfect date movie for both those who love romantic comedies and those who normally would not be caught dead watching one.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024) 95% 2/5 “Like other obsequious showbiz documentaries, we would be better off just watching old clips on YouTube instead.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% “Presence is an intense, sometimes disturbing reinvention of horror. ” – Washington City Paper Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Birdeater (2023) 75% 2/5 “The key difference between this film and Carnal Knowledge is nothing is withering about its approach. It plays in the muck with its characters more than it critiques them, so any attempt at contrition or condemnation ultimately strikes a false note.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% “Jean-Baptiste and Leigh humanize Pansy so that even at her most vicious, she remains compelling.” – Washington City Paper Jan 10, 2025 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) 96% 4.5/5 “This film finds that complex, note-perfect ending and something more—an elegant entertainment that just might be the definitive version of Dumas’ classic novel. ” – Spectrum Culture Jan 8, 2025 Full Review
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