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Caught by the Tides (2024) 98% “The result is a recognizably Jia-esque odyssey, brimming with prowling camera pans, musical detours, documentary asides, and poetic iconography.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice May 12, 2025 Full Review Bonjour Tristesse (2024) 65% “Lovely to look at, and beguilingly analytical in its details, but ultimately an irrelevance, an almost chaste tale of sublimated desire that can’t seem to raise its own temperature.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice May 5, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% “The Stepford Wives has moments of bracingly dry-eyed '70s grit, but mostly it's hampered by an inappropriate score, lots of stiff direction, and a sense of being pieced together from a hurried shoot. ” – Turner Classic Movies Online May 1, 2025 Full Review April (2024) 95% “You’re not waiting in a Kulumbegashvili film, you’re living on the cliff edge, and life there runs on its own clock.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Apr 29, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 76% “That [Cronenberg] knew it would fail to make the necessary connections, like Karsh’s cemetery “shroud” technology, doesn’t mean the experiment wasn’t worth conducting, and that the resulting artifact isn’t eloquent in and of itself. ❖” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Gazer (2024) 78% “All told, the film fairly seethes with ingenuity, however much it must frequently do battle with its lack of originality. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Grand Tour (2024) 92% “Gomes crafts two movies at once, one a travel doc, one a colonial tale of out-of-place Europeans, and lets them occasionally entangle.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Mar 31, 2025 Full Review The Assessment (2024) 82% “Vikander is the secret weapon here... and as Virginia toggles between android-like government agent and guileless woman-child, Vikander becomes the film’s unstable nucleus, just as a baby becomes the center of a new family’s cyclone.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Mar 24, 2025 Full Review The Quiet Ones (2025) 42% “Hviid’s film opts instead for tough-guy posturing, frenzied camerawork, and storytelling shortcuts.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Feb 24, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% “Companion is too slick and glib for its own good.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) 93% “The rich comedy of Grand Theft Hamlet drips mostly from the mix between the actors’ nonplussed dialogue over the absurd action and the game’s preposterous violence, uncanny glitchiness, and open-to-the-public messiness. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% “It’s a black marble of a movie, unforgiving and cold-eyed and chillingly constructed, with the bolero-like sense of inevitable doom that must’ve been familiar, as a social condition, to too many pre-contemporary women to count.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jan 4, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% “Bill Skarsgård is both unrecognizable and undecipherable but properly cadaverous, while as his object of desire, the rather dewy Lily-Rose Depp is frequently electrified by screaming, toe-curling seizures... easily the movie’s most arresting spectacle. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Dec 24, 2024 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% “Eventually, The Brutalist seemed to me to be a film without a plan, losing track of its own ideas, as though it were a biopic and therefore beholden only to a set of more or less random historical events. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Dec 20, 2024 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% “Naturally, this stirring backstory of defiance and triumph gives the movie an extra electrical charge, a Purple Heart in the annals of extra-cinematic tribulation ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 27, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% “The wariness, expressed with sensitivity but also nail-hitting solemnity, is organic; the film is built around the delicate indexing of how women must survive in India. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 21, 2024 Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% “Ultimately, a banal and formulaic biopic trifle, complete with unremarkable historical cameos.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% “Miserable it is...” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Oct 7, 2024 Full Review The Universal Theory (2023) 70% “...before long you’ll realize the film is not going to answer any of its own questions.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Oct 1, 2024 Full Review The 4:30 Movie (2024) 71% “Even if The 4:30 Movie is intended as a parody of crummy ’80s teen comedies, that still means the jokes are lame and their hollering deliveries are dead on arrival. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Sep 18, 2024 Full Review Close Your Eyes (2023) 93% “It’s not a film about our enthrallment; it’s about Erice, and he’s earned it like a civil servant’s pension.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Aug 23, 2024 Full Review Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023) 65% “The narrative — essentially unchanged version to version — doesn’t crawl forward so much as get dragged like a clubfoot from set to set...” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Oddity (2024) 96% “The screenplay, burdened by so many weirdly particular givens, indexes no larger ideas, and the unsorted pile of genre-stuff come off almost as random; you could throw in a mummy.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jul 20, 2024 Full Review Family Portrait (2023) 95% “With a soundtrack that rises and falls in an ambient bolero of distorted machine noise, and acting that can bronze-cast a character with just a glance, it’s the alchemical little movie that could, and one of the year’s best. ” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% “Built largely upon character and the characters’ capacity for keeping secrets, the movie is faultlessly performed, in Lanthimos’s signature bottle-it-up style.” – LA Weekly/Village Voice Jun 21, 2024 Full Review
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