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Bugonia (2025)

I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the better part of a decade dodging Yorgos Lanthimos movies.

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Rear Window (1954)

Cinema is twenty-four pictures per second with synchronized sound, and somehow it builds vast universes inside our imaginations.

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42nd Street (1933)

Sometimes movies of great historical import, turning points in the development of the medium, are tough to sit through.

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The Last Five Years (2014)

In the late ‘90s, musical playwright Jason Robert Brown married an actress named Terri O’Neill.

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The Housemaid (2025)

It might just be my undying love for Freaks and Geeks, but I’ll basically always show up for a Paul Feig joint

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The Princess Bride (1987)

Rob Reiner and William Goldman baked a little magic trick into The Princess Bride that I don’t think I fully appreciated as a kid

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Persuasion (2007)

Since I responded very powerfully to Emma (2020) a few years ago, I’ve gradually become a Jane Austen appreciator.

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Blue Moon (2025)

The most crucial moment in Blue Moon arrives in the very first scene, when the protagonist, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), dies.

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Hamnet (2025)

The world needs weepies.

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The Perfect Neighbor (2025)

It’s not often you can honestly describe a film as both “exploitative” and “restrained,” but The Perfect Neighbor lives in an unsettling overlap — and gets a lot of its magnetic power from the fact that it pushes past tasteful boundaries in some areas pulls back in others.