Bring Them Down (2024)
90%
“The film’s extraordinary lead actors are so fearless in their willingness to descend into the mad muck of it all that moviegoers with an instinct to dash for the exit when onscreen events turn disturbingly violent are likely to hold on for one scene more.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Feb 7, 2025
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
“Herisse and Wilson do fine work in roles that must have presented complex technical challenges.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 20, 2024
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High Tide (2024)
100%
“In High Tide, self-discovery and reinvention arrive in the gentlest of gestures.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 10, 2024
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Between the Temples (2024)
85%
“Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the lead roles they’ve long deserved. ” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Sep 5, 2024
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Crossing (2024)
97%
“Akin is on more solid ground when he lets the natural flow of Istanbul life dictate action and feeling. ” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Jul 20, 2024
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Janet Planet (2023)
85%
“ Baker pulls us deep into the quotidian details of Janet and Lacey’s world, where long summer walks, hours lost to dollhouse play, and whispered bedtime conversations cover deep currents of feeling. ” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Jun 20, 2024
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Shirley (2024)
74%
“In a movie overstuffed with men, Jackson and King spark off one another, and share one of the movie’s best scenes.” –
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Jun 11, 2024
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The Taste of Things (2023)
97%
“It's completely wonderful and is also that rare movie that you enter into fully. By the end, the vast stone kitchen is as familiar as home. ” –
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Jun 11, 2024
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Origin (2023)
81%
“I’ve seen it twice and though I can see that it could be shorter and is sometimes didactic, its rewards are many, not least among them the affecting tenderness with which Isabel and those she loves approach one another.” –
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Jun 11, 2024
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Sting (2024)
71%
“Sting might be only a low-budge spider movie, but it looks great.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Apr 10, 2024
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Disco Boy (2023)
88%
“In its final scenes, Disco Boy echoes the troop and solo dance movements from the much revered Beau Travail, a mad and nervy move a young director would only dare when he has a lead as riveting and emotionally daring as Franz Rogowski. ” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Jan 31, 2024
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The Nun II (2023)
51%
“t is unexpected to like The Nun II so much, but in its over-the-top horror and action filled finale there is the sense of a filmmaker looking to shock and surprise, but to do so playfully.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Sep 10, 2023
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Theater Camp (2023)
86%
“The songs are bad but also kinda great, and there’s Studio 54 number with a white feather boa as a line of cocaine that is a testament to the inventiveness of low-budget productions. ” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Jul 25, 2023
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Sanctuary (2022)
88%
“ All night, Rebecca and Hal hurl words and scenarios at one another, until they arrive, abruptly, at a place beyond role play. If revelatory dialogue can be like an orgasm, they share one, and it’s a kick.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
May 29, 2023
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Inside (2023)
62%
“It’s a testament to Dafoe’s intensity that we continue to worry over him even as we realize the story isn’t likely to build to a resounding finale. That may disappoint some, but Inside suggests that we’re witnessing the creation of a new work of art.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
May 29, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023)
66%
“In the end, there is a half-assed setup for a sequel, but since they never made Snakes on a Plane 2 (which I could have gotten behind), Cocaine Bear may not prove as lasting as the real bear that inspired it.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
May 29, 2023
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Down in the Delta (1998)
76%
“While there is little doubt Loretta will be saved, screenwriter Myron Goble, who writes dialogue not speeches, makes Loretta work for her happy ending. ” –
L.A. Weekly
Jan 5, 2023
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Babylon (2022)
57%
“The film’s final moments, set in a 1930s movie palace, is a daring artistic leap but is wholly dependent on a sweep of feeling that the filmmaker, despite his many gifts, and three hours of razzle dazzle, hasn’t managed to conjure.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 24, 2022
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Spoiler Alert (2022)
87%
“Moviegoers who stick around for the closing credits of Spoiler Alert will see a bit of the original video, giving the real man whose life touched so many an authentic gaze that the film itself lacks.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 24, 2022
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The Inspection (2022)
88%
“With its training montages and third act shifts of heart among the enlisted men, The Inspection has a familiar storytelling arc, but its rewards lie in the empathy and egalitarianism Bratton brings to his characters, major and minor.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 24, 2022
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Aftersun (2022)
95%
“ More evocatively, the film reflects on the things we never truly know about our own lives, and about the people we have loved and thought we knew so well.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 24, 2022
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Bros (2022)
89%
“ Bobby and Aaron both look surprised, as we always are by love. Bros is wonderfully funny, and quietly subversive. Take your parents.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 23, 2022
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Breaking (2022)
81%
“Those blows came for Brian Brown-Easley in Iraq and Kuwait, and then kept on coming once he was home. The deeply felt Breaking, at least, restores honor to a good man.
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LA Weekly/Village Voice
Dec 23, 2022
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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
85%
“A more serious-minded film that feels slow at times but is so earnestly intent on seeing its characters through to a fully felt emotional resolution that most will forgive the lack of narrative pull.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Jun 24, 2022
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Firebird (2021)
57%
“Firebird isn’t the least bit great, but its lover’s embrace will likely mean the world to many.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
May 28, 2022
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