The Shrouds (2024)
74%
“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
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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
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Grand Tour (2024)
91%
“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
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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
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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
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Companion (2025)
93%
“Companion is too slick and glib for its own good.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Jan 31, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Apprentice (2024)
83%
“Ultimately, a banal and formulaic biopic trifle, complete with unremarkable historical cameos.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Oct 9, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
31%
“Miserable it is...” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Oct 7, 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In a Violent Nature (2024)
78%
“Nash’s film might be, on the most superficial level, one of the most formally interesting slasher films I’ve ever seen, in that it has a single visual idea to it, but that’s like saying it’s better than getting an actual tooth pulled.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
Jun 6, 2024
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Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
86%
“Bellocchio’s physically lovely film ends up feeling somewhat one-note — it’s an anti-clerical, anti-Papist piece of work, and that’s all. ” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
May 28, 2024
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Gasoline Rainbow (2023)
93%
“It’s all scantly articulated and fairly boilerplate; it’s as if the filmmakers deliberately picked their cast by filtering out interesting stories or distinctive ideas. ” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
May 13, 2024
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Wildcat (2023)
59%
“Hawke’s utterly sincere fervor for the fiction and for O’Connor’s autonomous mission is never in question; you can disagree with tone or taste, but you can never say he sold the old girl short.” –
LA Weekly/Village Voice
May 3, 2024
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