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After the Hunt (2025)

I’m always interested when great directors decide to alienate their audience, and I have to believe that’s the game Luca Guadagnino is playing here.

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Twinless (2025)

I almost don’t want to review Twinless because I want you to go in with as little context as possible.

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Good Boy (2025)

Good Boy is a slight but fun idea for a film, the kind of shower brainstorm that rarely makes it to the page, let alone the screen.

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Lurker (2025)

In the attention economy, celebrity is both the means and the ends.

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Hedda (2025)

Hedda is a movie I can easily imagine a small subset of viewers declaring the best of the year, and I am very sure I am not one of those people.

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The Red Balloon (1956)

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more poetic movie than The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse’s 34-minute daydream.

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Frankenstein (2025)

Guillermo del Toro has finally dragged his dream project Frankenstein across the finish line, a decades-in-the-making adaptation that arrives with the weight of cinema prestige and awards expectations on its sewn-together shoulders.

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Straight Up (2019)

Rejoice: an exciting new cinematic voice.

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Community – Pilot (S01E01)

I was a senior in college and a devotee of NBC’s Thursday night programming in September 2009 when Community premiered.

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Griffin in Summer (2025)

It takes a certain intestinal fortitude to be a true coming-of-age movie die-hard.