John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)
“Earth Coincidence isn’t a biopic so much as a study of a few tumultuous decades in US history, and how ideas––even and especially the most absurd––can seep into culture.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 25, 2025
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)
70%
“Here’s a film that manages to be both familiar and completely different, a work of visceral pleasures uninterested in genuflecting to rules or expectations. ” –
The Film Stage
Feb 19, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
“With Mickey 17, [Bong Joon Ho has] crafted something that’s oddly inert: a story that’s all too eager to tell us where our allegiances should lie” –
The Film Stage
Feb 15, 2025
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Wind, Talk to Me (2025)
B+
“Wind, Talk to Me is itself an act of faith: a son learning to surrender to the world and finding his mother flowing through it still. ” –
The Film Stage
Feb 11, 2025
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Stranger Eyes (2024)
83%
B-
“This is when Stranger Eyes is at its strongest: when it taps into the actor’s ability to look with eyes that aren’t strange so much as ancient, a gaze that always seems to invite me to see the world anew.” –
The Film Stage
Dec 6, 2024
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Dream Team (2024)
B+
“By the time Dream Team comes to its enigmatic ending, the journey has accrued a disorienting power––it’s the vertigo that comes from watching a film fearlessly pushing against the limits of what can be told, and how. ” –
The Film Stage
Nov 19, 2024
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Broken Rage (2024)
86%
B
“locking in at 62 minutes, Broken Rage is not a simple divertissement, but a rollicking self-portrait: an artist rethinking his relationship with the medium he’s mastered and having a decidedly grand time in the process.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 7, 2024
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Queer (2024)
77%
C-
“Dirty as the novella was, Guadagnino’s adaptation feels almost antiseptic. It’s not that characters are immune to shit and self-destruction. It’s that the director, working with a script by Justin Kuritzkes, operates on a completely different register.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 3, 2024
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The Sparrow in the Chimney (2024)
90%
B
“With its deep, bold dives into the nightmarish and the surreal, The Sparrow in the Chimney is that rare film that feels like a catharsis for protagonist and director both.” –
The Film Stage
Aug 20, 2024
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Black Dog (2024)
97%
B+
“The sense of catharsis the film musters in its closing shots is nothing short of remarkable. It’s a small wonder that Black Dog, drenched in sorrow as it is, can wrap with a coda this invigorating. ” –
The Film Stage
May 30, 2024
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Misericordia (2024)
95%
A-
“Everyone gets to yearn in Guiraudie’s cinema; whether those urges are ever satisfied, there’s something almost disarmingly fair about the way his films treat that most cardinal of human drives.” –
The Film Stage
May 27, 2024
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Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024)
65%
B
“One of the director’s strongest in quite some time, a film whose form feels wholly in service of the story and man at its center. ” –
The Film Stage
May 21, 2024
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Dahomey (2024)
99%
A-
“In Diop’s hands, what might have unfolded as a mere chronicle of a journey morphs into something far more electrifying and disturbing. ” –
The Film Stage
Feb 26, 2024
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Here (2023)
94%
“To peg [the director's] work as that of a miniaturist only lays bare the limited language we use to describe a film [...] Devos’s cinema is expansive, and that’s especially true in Here, possibly his biggest and most ambitious to date.” –
Reverse Shot
Feb 13, 2024
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Swimming Home (2024)
33%
C
“Swimming Home kicks off as a simmering psycho-sexual thriller in the vein of Jacques Deray’s 1969 La Piscine––or its 2015 remake by Luca Guadagnino, A Bigger Splash––only to trade that initial disquiet for something far more turgid.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 12, 2024
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
94%
A-
“ It’d be tempting to invoke the specters of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsai Ming-liang to account for Pham’s blend of mysticism, and while Cocoon Shell makes no secret of its touchstones, there is no sense of regurgitation or preening showmanship. ” –
The Film Stage
Jan 17, 2024
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
97%
A-
“Do Not Expect feels like a film under pressure, ready to detonate with a creative force that redoubles the go-for-broke passion attached to its protagonist’s hustles. It is a testament to cinema’s shapeshifting power––what it can do, what it can be. ” –
The Film Stage
Nov 7, 2023
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The Human Surge 3 (2023)
94%
B+
“Proudly immune to narrative conventions, The Human Surge 3 doesn’t just ape an aesthetic that’s become so prominent in our screen-mediated lives, but wonders what can be built upon it.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 28, 2023
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Poor Things (2023)
93%
A-
“The dizzying words would be nothing without Stone, whose explosiveness, attention to detail, and humanization of an otherwise totally outlandish character brings them to life in a fearless, side-splitting, all-consuming performance.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 2, 2023
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
95%
B
“ In a work suffused with stupefying mysteries, the strange visions Henry Sugar teems with echo its drifters’ wide-eyed wonder as well as their creator’s. It’s an infectious feeling.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 1, 2023
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DogMan (2023)
59%
C
“Besson hopscotches from slapstick comedy to lachrymose junctures where Landry Jones is asked to conjure a sense of catharsis Dogman never really earns.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 1, 2023
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Baan (2023)
71%
B-
“Baan swells its romance into something larger: a canvas for a whole generation. ” –
The Film Stage
Aug 16, 2023
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Playland (2023)
88%
A-
“Playland teems with an inordinate fondness for the bar at its center, and the countless outcasts who sauntered through it. But nostalgic West’s film is not, for the word doesn’t quite square with the ebullient, rebellious energy their film thrums with.” –
The Film Stage
Jul 26, 2023
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Eureka (2023)
83%
B
“Old tropes and motifs notwithstanding, Alonso’s latest is his most ambitious: a tripartite film, Eureka sides not with the white strangers in strange lands that had long peopled Alonso’s oeuvre, but with the native communities facing these invaders.” –
The Film Stage
Jun 14, 2023
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About Dry Grasses (2023)
92%
B+
“About Dry Grasses is both a distillation of Ceylan’s recurrent tropes and a purification of his style, a film made of conversations that remain explosive even at their most forbidding, shivering with a sense of fluid emotions constantly at play.” –
The Film Stage
May 27, 2023
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