Why Flow is my favorite film of 2024
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July 4, 2025
Director Gints Zilbalodis and co-writer Matīss Kažathe invite us into an animated vision of a flooded world in which animals reflect the dangers of who we are and the glory of who we can be.
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Is The People’s Joker the best Joker movie yet? (I know how I’m voting.)
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July 4, 2025
Vera Drew's fantastical truth-telling will discomfort those who are terrified of trans individuals. What's more — it will challenge Batman fans.
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No Other Land: these filmmakers are risking their lives so you will watch their movie
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March 30, 2025
This Oscar-winning documentary should be seen and discussed by every American, as we are supplying the resources for cruelty and erasing whole communities.
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Live from New York, it’s… a ticking-clock thriller and a tribute to improvisational creatvity!
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February 13, 2025
Jason Reitman's controlled-chaos fantasy about the launch of SNL offers a good time with rowdy comedians at a turning point in TV history.
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Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman bond Between the Temples
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January 8, 2025
Just as he did in Rushmore, Jason Schwartzman plays a young man with an irrational longing for one of his teachers, a woman much older than him. Great awkwardness ensues.
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Nine reasons to see Didi
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January 7, 2025
Sean Wang's Sundance Award-winning coming-of-age film is a joy and one of the year's most promising directorial debuts. Here are some of the reasons I enjoyed it so much.
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Lee Isaac Chung gets carried away with Twisters
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January 6, 2025
The personal touch of Minari director Lee Isaac Chung is evident in this surprising sequel to a 1996 summer blockbuster, which turns some blockbuster cliches sideways.
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Kings of infinite space: Inmates of Sing Sing stage a prison break through art
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December 31, 2024
The latest entry in the "Art Can Change Your Life" genre has particular strengths—it's a true story, it avoids narrative contrivance, and, most of the time, it shows admirable restraint.
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Wicked Little Letters serves up wisdom with a clustercuss of conflict
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December 31, 2024
Now streaming on Netflix, Wicked Little Letters should not be overlooked. It's much more than a swear-word showdown between Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.
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Dazzled and disappointed by Furiosa, “the darkest of angels”
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December 30, 2024
While it's a thrill to be back in George Miller's awe-inspiring cinematic universe, Furiosa's story feels too narrowly focused on revenge.
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