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My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% 10/10 EDIT “Masterful, even magnificent observational documentary... an intricate story on the fly... We are given the gift to witness the tumble of totalitarianism into fascism on an intimate scale.” – Newcity Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Nadja (1994) 68% 9/10 EDIT “Compact, melancholy... Funny, conversational dialogue, filled with as many cross-purposes as Mamet or Pinter but hilariously cadenced and delightfully fresh, like overheard coffeeshop banter.” – Newcity Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 60% 5/10 EDIT “Fanfic fury... Fennell is fond of sluice and slurp... Equal-opportunity toxicity... lasting fits of fixation and eons of obsession... proudly untidy... a latter-day turn at the raunchy period tellings of... the 1960s and 1970... "romps" like Tom Jones.” – Newcity Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Friend's House Is Here (2026) 100% 10/10 EDIT “The best [Sundance] film I caught, an elegant widescreen drama with characters in the Tehran underground... confidence and elegance... loving and lovely, the story’s rhythms seducing, then alarming...” – Newcity Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 9/10 EDIT “Del Toro gives the widest, wildest emotions a monster hug... Mansions where the furnishing, draped and regal, are challenged by the characters’ wardrobes... the intimate in the eyes of Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, or anyone else..” – Newcity Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 10/10 EDIT “Able comic anecdote of failure and hope, each streaming out of the mounting dissolution of an artistic figure... Linklater quietly sketches agony like cauterizing a psychic wound.” – Newcity Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 83% 10/10 EDIT “Moves like a dream, of density, of lightness, of flow and careering logic, a bright nightmare overflowing with piercing prescience... Peck’s hand is sure in fashioning an immersive experience—weaving atmospheric footage of all sorts.” – Newcity Oct 11, 2025 Full Review The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) 86% 8/10 EDIT “Carax’s reputation was fully established as a willfully mad maker of ravaged canvases of the heart... damp-dark romantic efflorescence... l’amour fou expressed through the built environment and the fireworks of the heart. ” – Newcity Oct 11, 2025 Full Review The Tree of Life (2011) 86% 10/10 EDIT “If you work with a camera that is autonomous and distracted,as Malick does, with promiscuous principal photography that works from inspiration and not text... the meaning gets layered in selection, the decisive moment is then in the edit, not in shooting.” – Newcity Oct 4, 2025 Full Review Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) 97% 9/10 EDIT “Involving... Affectionate documentary, warmth radiates as the trajectory of the 1972 stage production to its latter-day legend is charted... rich with remembrances from the past half-century [from the] still-lucid subjects. ” – Newcity Oct 4, 2025 Full Review The Addiction (1995) 75% 10/10 EDIT “Indelible, ineffable Lili Taylor at her formidable best... While the characters drench themselves in grad-school chatter, the milieu is still recognizable as Ferrara’s ultra-serious, ultra-perverse New York and its congeries of overlapping demimondes.” – Newcity Oct 3, 2025 Full Review TURA! (2024) 6/10 EDIT “Crowdfunded documentary is heavy on low-budget editing techniques—oh, the zooms, oh, the strobing!—but delivers fresh particulars... increasingly wild revelations, all the way to her rediscovery at the end of her life by squadrons of adoring fans. ” – Newcity Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% 7/10 EDIT “Pleasingly paced fable of self-discovery... Set in Syracuse in 1997 [it] plays with the technology of the time as well as attitudes of the decade, and its lo-fi look suits that range of degraded media the cops employ to bust the men they tempt.” – Newcity Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 8/10 EDIT “Paul Greengrass’ impressive wall of heat... builds at scale and sprawl that the grand big screen is so thirsty for... waves and miles of flame rage and consume... the substantial work of a director still at the height of his visceral power. ” – Newcity Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Predators (2025) 97% 9/10 EDIT “Canny and ultimately bone-chilling... The final scenes are stacked coups de théâtre, landing with a succession of punches and then a sad dissipation. ” – Newcity Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 9/10 EDIT “Vital, vivid coming-of-rage... A stylish, oft-delirious delight” – Newcity Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% 10/10 EDIT “Quietly masterful... the sensation of being in the present moment is stirring and affecting... [Uses] widescreen to capture intimacy and [bears] resonances with... Terrence Malick, Michael Mann’s <i>Heat</i> and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s <i>Millennium Mambo</i>.” – Newcity Sep 20, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 10/10 EDIT “Present-day dystopia... prodigious Pynchon paranoia [in a] never-flagging war movie, a Western, a family drama of father and daughter reconciliation, political satire. [s] breathlessly accomplished action movie... fearsomely good.” – Newcity Sep 18, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% 9/10 EDIT “Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor radiate heightened naturalism.” – Newcity Sep 18, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% 1/10 EDIT “Mucho audience awards at regional festivals, starting with its SXSW debut, and I can see the appeal of its oddly atmospheric, winsome rendition of an “After Hours” vibe. I sat with my heart like a stone.” – Newcity Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Where to Land (2025) 10/10 EDIT “Reader, I wept. What a beautiful movie is 'Where To Land,' crisp, brisk, wry—a comedy that’s taut yet discursive. Discernibly and distinctively a Hal Hartley movie and under eighty minutes.” – Newcity Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% 10/10 EDIT “It’s not that Grimm... It’s a headlong audience picture and no sort of treatise... The Pied Piper story told with extreme prejudice: Zach Cregger's hairline-fracture-time-scramble, sometimes-savage horror ride... is a loopy wellspring of surprises.” – Newcity Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025) 98% 8/10 EDIT “Admiring, admirable portrait of the underappreciated activist and artist, as well as the disappointments and painful turns in her life.” – Newcity Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Caught by the Tides (2024) 99% 10/10 EDIT “Marvelous catch-all... of... fiction/nonfiction/lyrical dream-drift... The kaleidoscopic dazzle of “Caught By The Tides” is heightened by Jia’s partner in life and art Zhao Tao, who remains one of the world’s greatest movie presences... Breaks the heart.” – Newcity Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Sovereign (2025) 95% 8/10 EDIT “Piercingly paced true-crime thriller and antihero study... Their journey across the country to spread their legal gospel is achingly observed, as is his delusional protagonist’s descent into madness.” – Newcity Jul 11, 2025 Full Review
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