Hard Truths (2024)
95%
“Leigh’s trademark approaches—the dramatically significant reaction shots, the subtextual selves bubbling up within each conversation—are all on display here and are not original... the story itself, with its microfocus on impotent rage, feels revelatory.” –
The New Republic
Jan 29, 2025
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
“There is history as we tell it, and then there is the material: the evidence, the archive, whatever it is that makes these stories possible to tell. Ross’s film is a sterling attempt to explode that distinction.” –
The Atlantic
Dec 19, 2024
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Creed III (2023)
89%
“It’s a better one for being about exactly the conflict you think it’s about. This is the chickens coming home to roost, as the saying goes.” –
Rolling Stone
Mar 3, 2023
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Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)
90%
“This is a movie operating on the principle that the most routine form of this violence isn’t sensational, but subtle. ” –
Rolling Stone
Mar 3, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023)
66%
“The pleasure’s in the crass, goopy excitement of it. It’s kind of a put-on, but the movie gets by on being surprisingly blood-soaked where it counts.” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 25, 2023
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Emily (2022)
87%
“It feels more like an effort to make us curious about this woman, whether or not we know or care who she is. And from the moment we see her, we are indeed inclined to be curious. That’s how you know it works.” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 23, 2023
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Sharper (2023)
68%
“Benjamin Caron’s Sharper, sleek but unsatisfying new thriller, needed to be a little smarter to work. ” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 17, 2023
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Irreversible: Straight Cut (2020)
90%
“It is still just as hard to watch. Even as a structural tumult rejiggers our approach to and relief from those scenes, shifting the order has a way of shifting the implications.” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 17, 2023
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Your Place or Mine (2023)
30%
“Your Place or Mine is fascinatingly at odds with who these people are. It’s more entertaining for it, squaring a circle for our benefit.” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 13, 2023
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The Outwaters (2022)
75%
“The Outwaters, Robbie Banfitch’s compellingly creepy new horror flick, takes the found-footage genre and the lost-in-the-desert nightmare, smashes them together, and spins them off their axis.” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 9, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)
48%
“Tame is what Magic Mike’s Last Dance is -- what it apparently wants to be, what it becomes in exchange for its new, cardboard-simple, ostensible pro-woman worldview. The movie’s pleasures mute themselves beneath its good intentions.” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 7, 2023
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Full Time (2021)
98%
“Full Time works because of, not despite, its cutting thrills. The anxiety we feel as we watch is very much the point. Julie is living on the edge. The movie marvels at her ability to keep her balance. ” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 6, 2023
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One Fine Morning (2022)
93%
“One Fine Morning is yet more evidence of how far Mia Hansen-Løve can push her naturalistic style, using seemingly plain storytelling to advance intellectual ideas that rarely feel drawn from the mind because they are so in tune with felt experience.” –
Rolling Stone
Feb 2, 2023
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Passages (2023)
95%
“What makes Passages worth watching isn’t the bare facts of its plot, but the ways that Sachs’s careful, nearly invisible style, matched to his actors, generates all manner of sudden, fluid, intelligent sensations as we watch. ” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 26, 2023
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Eileen (2023)
82%
“Eileen wants us to notice how the psychological brick house it’s been building all along explains the outcome. But the outcome almost doesn’t matter. The real joy is in the hungers we tasted along the way.” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 25, 2023
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birth/rebirth (2023)
96%
“The movie is freaky. But it never feigns to become a mere freakshow. It works, in part, because it hurts. It works because it defers that hurt until, at long last, it cannot be avoided.” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 23, 2023
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Magazine Dreams (2023)
80%
“It fails as a character study because the murky inner workings of the character are all manifest, outwardly, in turns and attitudes that you can see from a mile away and are no wiser for being able to predict. ” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 23, 2023
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The Son (2022)
29%
“There’s no doubt that Zeller takes this subject seriously. But his conceptual skill isn’t matched by his writing of scenes. And the writing for Nicholas is particularly underwhelming. ” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 20, 2023
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Saint Omer (2022)
95%
“Diop’s direction of Saint Omer is spare in style but dense in emotional intelligence, heavy with its own inquiries. The visual set-ups seem simple, but they are constantly carving away at the harrowing question of what people are thinking. ” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 17, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022)
74%
“Quiet horror at its finest. Skinamarink isn’t scary because of what it depicts. It’s scary because it already knows that our imagination will do half of the work.” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 10, 2023
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Alcarràs (2022)
93%
“Simón is attentive to the family as a complex unit, depicting it as a thriving mesh of personalities that do not all agree, but which are all bent toward the common ends of labor and survival, like the fibers comprising a muscle. ” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 9, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
63%
“It’s a troupe in service of a story that’s only barely satisfying when it finally decides to tie up loose ends. The real pleasure, it turns out, was always meant to be the weirdos we met along the way. ” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 6, 2023
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M3GAN (2022)
93%
“A better version of this movie would really go for it... What’s here is fine enough. The movie is PG-13 and not entirely worse off for it. ” –
Rolling Stone
Jan 4, 2023
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White Noise (2022)
64%
“Baumbach overreaches in White Noise. The movie is unsuccessful because its various energies eventually begin to feel mismeasured.” –
Rolling Stone
Dec 30, 2022
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Corsage (2022)
86%
“Corsage is not a great movie, but it’s good at detailing one woman’s circumstances. It doesn’t browbeat us with meaning, which it had every right to do, but instead attempts something humbler.” –
Rolling Stone
Dec 29, 2022
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