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The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916) EDIT “"The imagery remains remarkable, including a sequence where the beleaguered heroine wanders in exile, the deteriorated quality of the source material manifesting her inner turmoil."” – Washington City Paper May 13, 2026 Full Review The Tong Man (1919) EDIT “"...Hayakawa, the first Asian American actor to get a footing in Hollywood, is the standout anyway. He delivers an everyman charisma that, if you’ll pardon the comparison, is not unlike Tom Cruise’s."” – Washington City Paper May 13, 2026 Full Review The Degenerates (1967) EDIT “A raw, painful demonstration of everything Andy Milligan was about, delivered in his inimitably shaggy style that however flawed revealed, despite the personal demons threatening to burn through every frame, a remarkable sense of control.” – Spectrum Culture May 8, 2026 Full Review Early Spring (1956) 100% EDIT “The mid-century office setting seems not far removed from a Douglas Sirk melodrama or even Mad Men, but in Ozu’s hands, this becomes the backdrop for a quietly seething indictment of a dehumanizing work life.” – Washington City Paper May 5, 2026 Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% EDIT “A taut 88-minute drama of meaningless brutality, managerial ineptitude, and gross injustice. ” – Washington City Paper May 5, 2026 Full Review Libeled Lady (1936) 81% EDIT “This 1936 screwball comedy reminds us that media manipulation is hardly a 21st-century invention—and gives us a sad whiff of an era when the daily printed newspaper was a staple of modern living. ” – Washington City Paper May 5, 2026 Full Review Eraserheads: Combo on the Run (2025) 59/100 EDIT “"There’s so much juicy material in Philippine politics that could have lent more oomph ... but the film may only truly work for the people who lived through it."” – Spectrum Culture Apr 30, 2026 Full Review The Eclipse (1962) 87% EDIT “"Antonioni’s own modern aesthetic, the long takes, precise compositions, and tormented ennui that he draws out of his performers, especially Monica Vitti, suggest a way out of the existential crisis."” – Spectrum Culture Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Fiend of Dope Island (1961) EDIT “Generates more than enough tropical fever to make its taut 76-minute runtime consistently entertaining, embodying the Herzogian quote from one of its supporting characters: "There’s a thin line sometimes between human and beast."” – Spectrum Culture Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Mortician (2025) EDIT “"Sadr gives a truly heartbreaking performance, shifting gradually from purehearted stoicism to a palpable despair."” – Washington City Paper Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Strange Days (1995) 71% EDIT “"...chillingly prescient in so many other ways, an opening volley for a new century that would unfold in ways we could never have predicted."” – Washington City Paper Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Satan Jawa (2017) EDIT “What makes Setan Jawa remarkable is that—with inspiration drawn from wayang shadow puppet theater and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu—it’s a black-and-white silent film. ” – Washington City Paper Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% EDIT “"A fascinating drama, its 16mm aesthetic transporting the viewer into the storied past of the New York art world."” – Washington City Paper Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Stop Making Sense (1984) 100% EDIT “Despite the wild eyes and non sequiturs, Byrne’s vision is accessible and charismatic. It’s incredibly moving that someone so clearly awkward and uncomfortable can be himself and make money from it” – Washington City Paper Nov 18, 2025 Full Review A Better Tomorrow (1986) 95% EDIT “Such fevered shootouts have become de rigueur ... and Woo was its prime mover, a mild-mannered personality whose fever dreams ignited a big bang whose reverberations are still viscerally felt in 2025” – Spectrum Culture Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% EDIT “It’s no surprise that one of the best bands of the ‘90s should be honored in such a complicated manner, but the multi-faceted gem here is an unexpected next chapter in Pavement’s storied history” – Spectrum Culture Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Brenda Starr (1986) EDIT “There’s a moment in the misbegotten, long-delayed comic book adaptation Brenda Starr where you can, for a few precious seconds, see all the promise of its mischievous cartoon glee—and it’s almost a throwaway shot.” – Spectrum Culture Jul 3, 2025 Full Review Night Games (1966) 33% EDIT “Everything your parents warned you about in 1966, and it remains a case study for the perils of modernity” – Washington City Paper May 29, 2025 Full Review The Other Woman (1954) EDIT “If its creators’ limitations hamper the results, the discrepancy between ambition and talent is fascinating and moving.” – Spectrum Culture May 28, 2025 Full Review Bound (2023) 86% 67/100 EDIT “A convincing coming-of-age drama that becomes a less convincing crime drama in the third act. But the largely unknown cast carries this idiosyncratic vision. ” – Spectrum Culture May 20, 2025 Full Review Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (2024) 100% 60/100 EDIT “Jerry Williams...may have found himself multiple times over the course of a long and strange career...Unfortunately, the film never finds itself. ” – Spectrum Culture May 20, 2025 Full Review Eraserhead (1977) 87% EDIT “...took several years to complete but unspools like a single, unforgettable fever dream. ” – Washington City Paper Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Seven Samurai (1954) 100% EDIT “For three and a half hours, this epic immerses you in a tradition that passes on its wisdom to the modern world through sheer entertainment. ” – Washington City Paper Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Blood for Dracula (1974) 68% EDIT “Conveying at once a great menace and vulnerability, Kier was born for this moment, and he leans in to Drac’s juicy fervor with glee” – Washington City Paper Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Death by Hanging (1968) 86% EDIT “One braces the emotions for what must inevitably be a laborious two-hour ordeal. Would you believe the movie is absolutely hilarious? ” – Washington City Paper Mar 20, 2025 Full Review
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