A Minecraft Movie (2025)
48%
1.5/4
“There’s a self-reflexivity to the game’s artifact-y textures that’s lost in this film adaptation, where the finely detailed look of just about everything says nothing in itself about the endless possibilities of a digital world’s malleability.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 4, 2025
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Eric LaRue (2023)
71%
2/4
“While the film features a strong performance from Judy Greer, it’s essentially a patchwork of broad strokes that rarely feel like they’re bringing its world to credible life.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 30, 2025
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The Graduates (2023)
96%
3/4
“While Hannah Peterson, with her emphasis on quiet moments and mementos mori, effectively suffuses The Graduates with a mournful absence of life, she also reminds us of the warmth that can be so typical of high school.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 29, 2024
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No Other Land (2024)
100%
3.5/4
“With exceptional lucidity, No Other Land reminds us of the human stakes of Israel’s resettlement of the West Bank, and that fighting for justice starts from the ground up.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 2, 2024
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The Devil's Bath (2024)
91%
3.5/4
“Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala depict Agnes’s plight with empathy but with a horror maven’s sense of ratcheting unease and encroaching doom.
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Slant Magazine
Jun 19, 2024
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Spaceman (2024)
50%
1.5
“The film ultimately doesn’t discover very much unexplored thematic space of its own.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 27, 2024
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Dahomey (2024)
99%
3.5/4
“Mati Diop’s captivating, fabulistic documentary Dahomey confronts the reality of how modernity has been shaped by the West’s theft of cultural heritage.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 27, 2024
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Sasquatch Sunset (2024)
72%
3/4
“What we’re confronted with in the film may be less the quaint idiocy of four dull simians and more our own inability to loosen up and just live.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 21, 2024
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Cuckoo (2024)
79%
2/4
“One may wish that the absurdity of the conceit had been matched by a bit more irreverence in the script and audacity in the imagery.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 18, 2024
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
94%
2.5/4
“In the end, it’s a memorably girthy, if not evenly muscled, ode to the treacherousness but ultimate value of romantic love.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 18, 2024
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Suspended Time (2024)
65%
3/4
“Olivier Assayas’s film is a gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 17, 2024
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Small Things Like These (2024)
94%
2.5/4
“The moral schema of the film ends up having all the clarity of melodrama, with our suffering hero cast against a practically snarling villain that almost defies reality.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 17, 2024
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Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)
94%
3/4
“Orlando, My Political Biography languishes in an undefinable interstitial space, floating between fiction and essay film.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 3, 2023
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The Delinquents (2023)
86%
3.5/4
“The Delinquents alternatingly dares the viewer to read it as a caper flick, a moral parable, a comedy of coincidences, and an existential probe.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 9, 2023
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Here (2023)
94%
3.5/4
“Bas Devos’s trademark placidity and restraint constitutes a challenge to narrative convention.
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Slant Magazine
Sep 7, 2023
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Reality (2023)
94%
“The film interrogates both the state of our world and the lines between fiction and document.” –
Slant Magazine
May 28, 2023
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L'immensità (2022)
85%
3/4
“By turns wry and tragic, but never glib or mawkish, this is a visually rich and evocative drama about navigating the often treacherous path to adulthood.” –
Slant Magazine
May 13, 2023
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Music (2023)
81%
3/4
“Initially, more than mere fun, Angela Schanelec’s approach to storytelling is surprisingly affecting, but once you’ve figured out how to play, the game begins to feel a bit, well, ancient.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 27, 2023
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Passages (2023)
95%
3.5/4
“The film carries the almost exotic interest of its milieu as well as deeply personal overtones.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 26, 2023
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Afire (2023)
91%
3.5/4
“Afire builds a story that begins as a hangout comedy with a sad-sack at its center but gradually becomes a slow-motion conflagration that offers no easy answers.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 26, 2023
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The Adults (2023)
72%
2.5/4
“The film affectingly captures the uniquely American ennui provoked by the banalities of a hometown and the lost utopia of childhood.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 21, 2023
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Past Lives (2023)
95%
3/4
“Diverging from romances in which lovers are expected to move heaven, earth, and themselves in order to make a moment of love last forever, Past Lives asks us to embrace the changes that come with time.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 19, 2023
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The Survival of Kindness (2022)
85%
3/4
“An epic adventure in the guise of an arthouse flick, The Survival of Kindness makes up in visual power and moral clarity what it lacks in subtext.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 19, 2023
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She Came to Me (2023)
48%
1.5/4
“The fatal flaw of the film is that it genuinely believes in the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 18, 2023
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Magazine Dreams (2023)
80%
3/4
“Magazine Dreams melds the alluring and the horrific in an unsettling mixture suited to its account of the peril of pursuing physical perfection.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 30, 2023
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