There’s a fine line between a film with a fluid tone whose unpredictability is charming, and a film whose tonal messiness is movie-ruining.
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Death of a Unicorn (2025)
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Black Bag (2025)
Steven Soderbergh had himself a proper double feature this spring
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Sinners (2025)
The devil comes in many forms, but sometimes he just carries a guitar.
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Borderline (2025)
Borderline is a rarity among 2020s comedy-thrillers
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Opus (2025)
Like most movie lovers, I typically seek out films I think I will like, or at least find fascinating.
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One of Them Days (2025)
One of Them Days is a treat — an honest-to-God comedy with setups, punchlines, and performances calibrated to land them.
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Heart Eyes (2025)
Your ninth scoop of ice cream will never taste as good as the first, and, as such, these high-concept slashers have lost a bit of their novelty.
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The Monkey (2025)
The Monkey is a big, dumb mess of a movie. (Complimentary.)
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The Electric State (2025)
As I watched the opening act of The Electric State, I felt something.
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Back in Action (2025)
The various social media circles and movie meme accounts I follow have settled on a term for this kind of film