Kyuka: Before Summer's End (2024)
“The middle class context of Kostis Charamountanis’ Kyuka: Before Summer’s End gives its story of a languid, European summer vacation a refreshingly dressed-down feel.” –
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Apr 14, 2025
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No Sleep Till (2024)
“As the independent film industry seems prepared for its own impending disaster, No Sleep Till is an instructive guide in how we might respond.” –
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Apr 14, 2025
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The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick (2025)
71%
“The result is a finale of confused and competing tones that might spark some puzzled conversations, but which don’t provide firm enough ground on which the film itself can stand.” –
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Apr 9, 2025
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Viet and Nam (2024)
100%
“It’s like a curse, where moments of joy are never found too far away from tragedy. But the opposite is true, as well. Those with the patience to see Việt and Nam to its end will cling to that alternative.” –
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Apr 3, 2025
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Invention (2024)
94%
“Nimble and form-breaking... a piece of art brimming with its own ideas: about the opportunities that fantasy provides the form of a fiction film, and what it can undo when unleashed in a person’s mind.” –
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Mar 18, 2025
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)
“The seemingly light touch behind this unconventional profile of John Lilly, simultaneously a mainstream pioneer in dolphin communication research and an elusive cult figure, belies serious inquiry into the unknowables we face every day.” –
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Mar 18, 2025
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Alice-Heart (2025)
“For a film as charming, thoughtful, and ably performed as this, it’s a little bit of a shame we don’t come to know Alice-Heart’s life through her own words.” –
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Mar 18, 2025
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Lockjaw (2025)
“One could ungenerously suggest the film’s drawn-out narrative, made up entirely of moments of character development rather than plot, would be better suited to a short film; and it’s hard to disagree.” –
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Mar 18, 2025
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Henry Fonda for President (2024)
“Horwath’s ready cinephilia makes Henry Fonda a fruitful and pleasurable watch. One marvels at the ease with which he articulates a particular Fonda performance’s qualities as much as delights in the clever and seemingly obvious connections he makes.” –
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Mar 8, 2025
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
48%
“In a sea of men, none are able to make a mark.” –
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Dec 18, 2024
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Endless Summer Syndrome (2024)
85%
“Like Delphine’s obsession with sunscreen, the film covers everything with a thick veneer, a pretense for protection from the forbidden, dangerous, alluring rays of the sun.” –
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Dec 12, 2024
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The Black Sea (2024)
92%
“The Black Sea is refreshingly open to the messiness of chance, of whatever wild choices either Harden or his Bulgarian screen partners might make within the parameters of the story’s expected beats” –
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Nov 21, 2024
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Hippo (2023)
90%
“Rapaport may look at the state of the world through apathetic eyes, but he reserves grace for his characters, despite, and perhaps in spite of, their flaws.” –
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Nov 15, 2024
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The Featherweight (2023)
81%
“Kolodny takes on his first feature with enthusiasm and careful attention to period detail, though its paint-by-numbers plot and almost cartoonish reliance on calcified Italian-American stereotypes saps the life out of its fly-on-the-wall imagery.” –
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Sep 19, 2024
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Dead Mail (2024)
93%
“An expectedly thrilling, and unexpectedly moving, ode to public servants.” –
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Sep 17, 2024
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Sad Jokes (2024)
“Stumm’s aesthetic sensibilities may lean toward the cool and distant... Thankfully, his actors counterbalance these tendencies, and come to represent that intangible thing in the film we might call soul.” –
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Sep 15, 2024
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Matt and Mara (2024)
85%
“Matt and Mara’s low-key register is its strength, and loosens up a filmmaker’s style so as to embrace the quotidian without sacrificing his distinct vision.” –
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Sep 11, 2024
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Red Island (2023)
84%
“Its languid mood, rich colors and textures, and tenuously connected narrative threads belie a deeply personal reflection that is never solipsistic.” –
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Aug 29, 2024
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Mountains (2023)
97%
“Sorelle’s perspective favors ambiguities and complexities that mirror an immigrant experience balanced precariously on the border of ambition and resignation, of fighting for more, or being happy with, even proud of, what you already have.” –
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Aug 19, 2024
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024)
97%
“If the material at Burstein’s disposal holds within it deep insights about the toxic nature of hypervisible celebrity, about an industry’s exploitations, her film deploys them hesitantly.” –
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Jun 15, 2024
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Vulcanizadora (2024)
96%
“In many ways it’s a very funny film, and has a brilliant comic cadence in its story and characterizations. But a sad refrain accompanies its comedy.” –
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Jun 12, 2024
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Federer: Twelve Final Days (2024)
58%
“Kapadia is operating at half-capacity, tentatively crafting a riskless, shallow, though undeniably moving venture that’s more in service of its star than in search of a unique story.” –
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Jun 12, 2024
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Swimming Home (2024)
33%
“These domestic troubles take some coaxing out of Anderson’s oblique, stuttering script, which is defined as much by its gaps in narrative logic as it is by its outright thematic bluntness.” –
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Jun 12, 2024
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Lyd (2023)
“Lyd occasionally spins its wheels across modes of storytelling, of documentation, but it never loses sight of these slippery questions about what is, and what could be, achieved through the power of our collective imagination.” –
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May 3, 2024
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Once Upon a Time in a Forest (2024)
“The cinematic landscape of direct action is vast... but Once Upon a Time in a Forest strikes an admirable balance between the intimately social and the broadly political, and thus makes for an interesting entry in this lineage. ” –
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Apr 14, 2024
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