A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
2/4
“The film, before long, becomes yet another bit of pat Dylanography, praising the artist’s capacity for change and sighing at the spurned loved ones and collaborators he left behind in order to become himself.” –
Film Freak Central
Jan 7, 2025
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Gladiator II (2024)
70%
1.5/4
“Thanks to the actors who play them, Lucius and Marcus are affable chaps, but you can’t imagine why anyone would follow either of them into the ring.” –
Film Freak Central
Nov 25, 2024
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Megalopolis (2024)
45%
3/4
“Whether Megalopolis has the kind of critical afterlife its filmmaker clearly hopes it will, there’s a sweet quality to its hopefulness in the face of things trending down in every direction, and a gentleness to its commitment to the family...” –
Film Freak Central
Nov 11, 2024
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A Different Man (2024)
93%
3.5/4
“If its last act feels a bit thinly sketched, the film is never dull, its productive busyness largely the result of Schimberg–and Edward–having so many complex problems to disentangle.” –
Film Freak Central
Oct 21, 2024
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
2.5/4
“An impressive project, with technical effort and scope more or less deserving of the comparisons...yet the film feels like the framing matter of an ambitious work of literary fiction–with the core of the text filled in somewhat dutifully after the fact.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
3/4
“Both actors slip into the type of roles you’d expect of them with ease.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Anora (2024)
93%
3.5/4
“What is clear, and what Baker is so good at capturing as a result of his evident respect for the work of sex workers.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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The Shrouds (2024)
74%
3.5/4
“A weirdly moving and singular late work that’s pitched somewhere between the eroticism of Crash and the swooning romanticism of M. Butterfly and The Fly, but that is also distinctly its own thing–a tragicomic romance about sex, dying, and cinema...” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Oh Canada (2024)
64%
3/4
“Still, one would be remiss to refuse another bitter pill from Schrader at this stage in his career, and by the end, Leonard’s self-retrospective is moving and illuminating because of rather in spite of the fact that he’s a scoundrel.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Emilia Pérez (2024)
72%
1/4
“This genre-defying crime melodrama musical nominally exists to be an actors’ showcase, even as it strands its cast with hackneyed characterizations and implausible reactions to improbable events that don’t develop so much as pile up.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Conclave (2024)
93%
2/4
“Conclave drops the ball in a series of clumsy late developments that turn the conclave into a referendum on the wider world outside the Cardinals' front door, with no real thematic development to justify it.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 24, 2024
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Occupied City (2023)
72%
3/4
“The deeper structural vulnerability to Occupied City is that for all its efforts to keep both yesterday and today alive and in dialogue, much of which is absorbing and successful, the contemporary it depicts already feels vacuum-sealed.” –
Film Freak Central
Apr 27, 2024
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Eileen (2023)
82%
“Hathaway is a fitting avatar of sorts for the filmmaker...” –
Film Freak Central
Dec 16, 2023
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I Don't Know Who You Are (2023)
100%
“Those shaky bookends aside, this is a strong calling card for filmmaker and star, an empathetic character study that effectively balances its punchy genre elements with its human drama...” –
Cinema Scope
Dec 4, 2023
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
90%
2/4
“The biggest problem, though, is the shallowness hinted at by the title, which reduces complex concepts and identities to buzzwords...” –
Film Freak Central
Oct 18, 2023
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
96%
3/4
“The kind of winding, enigmatic character study that people who miss reading literary fiction wistfully describe as "novelistic." ” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
93%
3/4
“I haven't been able to stop thinking about The Zone of Interest, about how Glazer switches suddenly at key points to an infrared vision of a small Polish girl lugging a bagful of apples around in the pitch black...” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
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Seven Veils (2023)
77%
3/4
“Atom Egoyan hits his stride again in Seven Veils, a playful and self-reflexive backstage drama...” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
91%
3.5/4
“Evil Does Not Exist is a terse, powerful turn to what you might call the horror of the Anthropocene, where a poisoned natural landscape and its stewards reassert themselves with the blunt materials at hand.” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023)
100%
3.5/4
“César doesn't hear the compliment, but we do, and we're left to wonder what the next phase of the restaurant might look like, without Michel and Marie-Pierre to guide it and Wiseman to document it...” –
Film Freak Central
Sep 30, 2023
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
98%
2.5/4
“Though Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is ultimately a vessel for the women's discursive exorcism of the things gnawing away at their bodies and souls, it's also impeccably shot...” –
Film Freak Central
May 11, 2023
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Food and Country (2023)
67%
2/4
“One wonders if a more earnest look at the subject would have made less time for the ruling class of food writers and more time for service workers.” –
Film Freak Central
May 11, 2023
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Angel Applicant (2023)
100%
3/4
“Meyer's blend of disability memoir and amateur art history is poignant stuff, a melancholy effort to forge a kinship bond with an irretrievably lost artist who can communicate with him at a distance through the abstractions of his art.” –
Film Freak Central
May 6, 2023
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Showing Up (2022)
89%
3.5/4
“Might be the most incisive portrait of the artist working from home to date.” –
Film Freak Central
Apr 16, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023)
87%
2.5/4
“That's a fetching premise, but as science-fiction, Infinity Pool feels pretty scrawny...” –
Film Freak Central
Feb 4, 2023
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