The Heirloom (2024)
B
“Much like Milly, Petrie’s film works itself into a charmingly anxious mood. ” –
The Film Stage
Mar 11, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
3/5
“Bong has delivered an uneven but chaotically entertaining film about a world where brutal subjugations aren’t necessarily forced upon us, but rather one where we’ve stooped so low as to opt in.” –
SciFiNow
Feb 24, 2025
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What Does that Nature Say to You (2025)
“The closest he has yet come to remaking Meet the Parents.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 22, 2025
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The Blue Trail (2025)
“With Blue Trail, Mascaro returns to a similarly dystopian future, but this time the world of his film feels lived-in, nuanced, unmistakably human.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 21, 2025
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Kontinental '25 (2025)
100%
“Kontinental was always going to have the whiff of a b-side about it, but this is a rich and substantial work. Taking Romania’s housing crisis as a central theme, it bombards the viewer with triggers, sight gags, and juxtapositions. ” –
The Film Stage
Feb 19, 2025
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The Botanist (2025)
“As transportive a slice of summer melancholy as one could ask for.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 17, 2025
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Holy Electricity (2024)
C+
“The film, part city symphony, part docudrama, offers plenty of style and finds substance in unusual places. Results are compelling, if a little mixed.” –
The Film Stage
Nov 29, 2024
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When The Light Breaks (2024)
96%
B+
“There is a rawness, warmth, and depth of feeling to When the Light Breaks that feels contrary to more cynical Western-European tragicomic traditions.” –
The Film Stage
Nov 22, 2024
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Toxic (2024)
A-
“Little of this is for the faint of heart, but Bliuvaitė’s refusal to relish in her protagonists’ misfortunes or bury them in misery gives Toxic a compelling and rebellious energy.” –
The Film Stage
Nov 6, 2024
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Drowning Dry (2024)
94%
A-
“Bareiša’s sophomore feature is wrestling with the weightiest topics imaginable, but this is a director who knows when to come up for air.” –
The Film Stage
Nov 3, 2024
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My Favourite Cake (2024)
100%
B
“Travel bans notwithstanding, My Favourite Cake’s most effective transgression is allowing its elderly characters to be horny. That’s a topic you likely won’t find in another Iranian film this year. Just don’t go in expecting much provocation.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 23, 2024
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The Story of Souleymane (2024)
100%
A-
“It was, for my money, the best discovery of this year’s Cannes Film Festival and, somewhat ironically, exactly the kind of work that used to define it.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 10, 2024
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Knit's Island (2023)
B+
“There is a sense of humility to this approach that can feel Herzogian at times. More than anything, Knit’s Island is a work of genuine curiosity.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 5, 2024
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Familiar Touch (2024)
100%
B+
“It’s a wonderfully gentle piece of filmmaking––something of a low-key triumph that offers a novel perspective on a topic that had become, if not entirely worn out, at least clichéd.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 4, 2024
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
B
“The closest [Pedro Almodóvar] has come to an exercise in late style: it’s succinct, light on its feet, totally earnest, and––in spite of some indulgent conversations on art and writing––never feels like it’s trying too hard. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 2, 2024
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
A
“Time and history do another spectacular, melancholy dance in The Brutalist, a film with faint echoes of Andrei Rublev‘s monumental ambitions and rich shades of Paul Thomas Anderson’s American myth-making. It might be the best film of the year.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 1, 2024
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Cloud (2024)
90%
B+
“A cold thriller with a dark, satirical edge that shows the master filmmaker at his leanest and meanest.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 1, 2024
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Maria (2024)
75%
B-
“Maria is a story that mourns a career that ended too soon, but in Jolie’s case it offers a restart.” –
The Film Stage
Aug 29, 2024
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Youth (Hard Times) (2024)
93%
B+
“Youth (Hard Times) leaves you with the feeling of something monumental: a granular view of the frayed hems of late capitalism that still has 152 minutes to go and, if reports are to be believed, a couple of weddings to get through.” –
The Film Stage
Aug 16, 2024
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Grand Tour (2024)
91%
A-
“If Chris Marker and Preston Sturges ever made a film together, it might have looked something like Grand Tour.” –
The Film Stage
May 24, 2024
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Universal Language (2024)
96%
A-
“Universal Language does wonderfully to manage such a fine balancing act: the absurd jokes are still funny, yet only rarely do they break the film’s unique pitch.” –
The Film Stage
May 23, 2024
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The Surfer (2024)
87%
B-
“In The Surfer, an exploitation film set to pressure-cook, a mild-mannered man is pitted against a group who even Andrew Tate might find a touch extreme.” –
The Film Stage
May 23, 2024
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The Shrouds (2024)
74%
B-
“A sci-fi conspiracy thriller about the process of mourning that offers just about enough resonance, style, and humor to forgive its knotted narrative and inconsequential loose ends.” –
The Film Stage
May 21, 2024
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Caught by the Tides (2024)
97%
B
“The director’s latest experiment in plundering his archive––indeed his memories––and spinning what he finds into something new. ” –
The Film Stage
May 20, 2024
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
51%
B+
“A classic western told through the unhurried framework of a limited series and a vision as wide as the open sky.” –
The Film Stage
May 20, 2024
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