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Agatha's Almanac (2025) EDIT “Among other things, “Agatha’s Almanac” is a compendium of Bock’s green-thumb wisdom. ” – New York Times May 14, 2026 Full Review The Electric Kiss (2026) 59% EDIT “The best that can be said for ‘The Electric Kiss’ is that it is harmless (except when treating Antoine’s self-destructive tendencies as yet more targets for yuks)” – RogerEbert.com May 13, 2026 Full Review Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026) 81% EDIT “While being cynical about a wise-octopus movie is probably unfair, being bored by it isn’t great, either.” – New York Times May 8, 2026 Full Review Two Pianos (2025) 77% EDIT “Lately Desplechin has been in a bit of a rut with critics, and this modest drama, less sprawling than much of his work, feels like an effort to reconnect with the madness of his early films. That’s a compliment.” – New York Times Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) 95% EDIT “His film gently balances tidiness and looseness, connection and alienation and artifice and the natural world.” – New York Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Fiume o morte! (2025) 92% EDIT “The re-enactment approach may not be as novel as it once was, but it’s still a heady, creative way to excavate layers of buried history in a location that has more than its share.” – New York Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson (2026) 80% EDIT “If there’s anything illuminating or edifying about watching these painful recollections, “Truth and Tragedy” misses it.” – New York Times Apr 2, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 65% EDIT “All credit to the folks who run the Virgil: Real thought has gone into these amenities. ” – New York Times Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Palestine '36 (2025) 98% EDIT “The dynamics are rarely simply drawn, and if the film’s default mode is miniseries-expository, there are a few striking stylistic flourishes.” – New York Times Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Group: The Schopenhauer Effect (2026) EDIT “It’s invigorating to watch these interactions, even if similar filmmaking methods have been used before. ” – New York Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review André Is an Idiot (2025) 97% EDIT “He can’t be irreverent about his impending death forever, but it’s oddly uplifting to see him so committed to trying — while encouraging every viewer to get a colonoscopy.” – New York Times Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% EDIT “Like lovingly warmed leftovers, it has its satisfactions: a charismatic cast, evocative Los Angeles location work, the sort of granular details on diamond couriering and insurance valuation that might give impressionable viewers ideas. ” – New York Times Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 99% EDIT “The President’s Cake is only superficially a story of youthful resilience. The deprivations and darkness of the dictatorship, which immiserates the Iraqi people even as it demands performative displays of happiness, lurk around every corner.” – New York Times Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Worldbreaker (2025) 41% EDIT “January movies don’t come duller.” – New York Times Jan 29, 2026 Full Review A New Love in Tokyo (1994) EDIT “While honesty dictates that this movie, directed by Banmei Takahashi, be classified first and foremost as erotica, it is erotica that finds room for real sweetness and intellectual pretensions along with its kink.” – New York Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Deepfaking Sam Altman (2025) 93% EDIT “Give Bhala Lough credit: His film simultaneously illustrates the deficiencies of generative A.I. and the dangers of investing in it emotionally, while remaining annoying and self-amused in a distinctly human way. ” – New York Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “When “Dead Man’s Wire” ends with footage of the real Kiritsis and Hall, it is hard not to conclude that a much crazier, livelier film could have been made.” – New York Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 84% EDIT “It’s a wondrous interlude, and Jarmusch at his best.” – New York Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 94% EDIT “Visually, this widescreen film is a virtuoso exercise in (mostly) single-location filmmaking. ” – New York Times Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The King of Color (2025) EDIT “One interviewee suggests that Herbert has had a greater impact than Steve Jobs or Ray Kroc; he just isn’t as widely known. “The King of Color,” directed by Patrick Creadon (“Wordplay”), aims to offer a corrective. ” – New York Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Happy Holidays (2024) 94% EDIT “The movie favors an unflashy presentation that allows its themes to emerge organically.” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Teenage Wasteland (2025) 100% EDIT “This crowd-pleasing documentary, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, caters to multiple niches of moviegoer who enjoy rooting for the underdog.” – New York Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Age of Disclosure (2025) 27% EDIT “Question the film and you’re a chump, it implies. But anyone who sits through its nearly two hours of unprovable claims is a chump of a different sort.” – New York Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Things You Kill (2025) 94% EDIT “Debts to Luis Buñuel and David Lynch are obvious, but “The Things You Kill” has its own way of getting inside its protagonist’s head space — and yours.” – New York Times Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 71% EDIT “Nuremberg struggles to make dramatic sense of an even denser mass of material.” – New York Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review
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