Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
Friend Review
Fennell couldn’t be more moronic if she tried
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13th
list
Netflix
Documentary
—
*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
407806
Year
2016
Runtime
100 min
Director
Ava DuVernay
Writer
Ava DuVernay
Cinematographer
Kira Kelly
Cast
Jelani Cobb, Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker
Studio
Kandoo Films
Country
US
Language
en
TMDB Rating
7.85
Personal Rating
4
Tagline
From slave to criminal with one amendment.
Overview
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
network
Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure
Martin Scorsese
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ID
62
Year
1968
Runtime
149 min
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer
Geoffrey Unsworth
Cast
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter
Studio
Stanley Kubrick Productions
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
G
TMDB Rating
8.049
Tagline
An epic drama of adventure and exploration.
Overview
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Network Sources
Martin Scorsese
User Review
Absolute classic, must see, one of the best scifi movies ever made
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A Better Tomorrow
network
Criterion Channel, Plex, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Action, Crime, Drama
Daniel Simpson
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ID
11471
Year
1986
Runtime
95 min
Director
John Woo
TMDB Rating
7.377
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Friend Review
Oh man, what a difference two years makes. Heroes Shed No Tears was good but a far cry from the sublime qualities of John Woo at his best. But A Better Tomorrow? At this point Woo feels basically fully formed. Not to say he's achieved perfection just yet, his best movies were still ahead of him, but the stylistic elements and thematic hallmarks have now coalesced. A huge part of that is Chow Yun-fat, who is actually more of a supporting character here or a secondary lead than he is the star, but the man's movie star aura is simply undeniable and Woo knows it. Virtually every image of Chow is overflowing with coolness, but Chow also has the chops to tell the pain and longing of the melodrama. That's another thing that makes A Better Tomorrow such a seismic leap. It's not just Chow Yun-fat or Woo's increasingly beautiful action set-pieces, it's the interest in using the action movie as a vehicle for telling stories, and highly emotional, vulnerable stories of male friendships, rife with love, loss, and betrayal, the kind of grand and primal emotions action is so perfect at expressing. At times the film even feels more like a melodrama than it does an action movie, but the action is incredible all the same. Especially impressive are the scene which gives Chow his wound, the parking lot shootout, and the finale, which culminates the emotions of the story and the plotting in epic fashion. I know dudes like to overuse that word when talking about action movies, but no other word is more appropriate here. John Woo has arrived, and so has the Hong Kong Action Cinema series. I can't believe I have so many more of these to watch.
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A Foreign Affair
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Romance, Comedy
bkrewind
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ID
61650
Year
1948
Runtime
116 min
Director
Billy Wilder
TMDB Rating
7.1
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
Friend Review
Somehow, TCM let me talk about how much I love this film on television. My mind is blown and I couldn't be more thankful for the opportunity to share this strange, subversive rom com with all of you.A Foreign Affair tends to be overlooked in Billy Wilder’s filmography. Despite its somewhat formulaic blueprint, Wilder’s caustic sensibilities are at their finest here. The film, though sponsored by the US government, spares no punches when satirizing America’s particular brand of postwar exceptionalism. Only Marlene Dietrich could play Erica von Schlutow. Wilder harnessed her strengths better than any director since Josef von Sternberg. Her performance of Black Market helped me fall in love with film. I wrote more about the making of the film and why I think it's so fascinating here:youtu.be/JUEKREh9VUg?si=DBJNT2WnBI1ur1Mu
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A New Love in Tokyo
network
—
Romance, Drama
Maia
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ID
108433
Year
1994
Runtime
115 min
Director
Banmei Takahashi
TMDB Rating
5.7
Personal Rating
4
Overview
A look at the lives of two prostitutes in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
Friend Review
if you're looking for a horny movie running on vibes alone and set in Japan this is for you. if you're a theatre kid this is also for you.
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Aftersun
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Drama
Maia
—
ID
965150
Year
2022
Runtime
101 min
Director
Charlotte Wells
Writer
Charlotte Wells
Cinematographer
Gregory Oke
Cast
Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Brooklyn Toulson, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham
Studio
PASTEL
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.654
Personal Rating
5
Tagline
Memory burns.
Overview
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
Network Sources
Maia
User Review
Would almost describe it as boring except I felt very uneasy and on edge the whole time. A humanistic portrait of a father-daughter relationship that evokes the question of what is it to be a good father.
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All About Eve
list
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama
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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time – 2022
ID
705
Year
1950
Runtime
139 min
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer
Milton Krasner
Cast
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Studio
20th Century Fox
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
8.074
Tagline
It's all about women... and their men!
Overview
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
User Review
This classic is a must with great dialogues and script with a great performance from Bette Davis.
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American Graffiti
network
Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Drama
Daniel Simpson
—
ID
838
Year
1973
Runtime
112 min
Director
George Lucas
TMDB Rating
7.046
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Friend Review
I first tried to watch American Graffiti as a child under the promise that the film was "from the creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones" and I'm not even sure I finished it. Harrison Ford does not punch or shoot a single person in this? Bor-ing! I would eventually catch up with the film as a teen going through the AFI lists and Oscar histories and liked it fine but it still only did so much for me. Going into this rewatch I expected the movie to finally click and I'd really love it. That didn't exactly happen. I mean, I certainly like the movie. I admire its loose structure and general plotlessness, how innovative the film's soundtrack was, and how influential both aspects were to the "one crazy night" teenage nostalgia film. We certainly wouldn't have Dazed and Confused without American Graffiti so kudos. I also think there's an argument to be made that this is George Lucas's best looking movie, at least on a cinematography level. The "visual consultation" Haskell Wexler brought to the film was worth every penny.So Graffiti has a lot going for it, but it also sort of doesn't. I certainly don't find it a very funny movie. Couple of chuckles throughout and some of the actors definitely make the most out of the material, but I can't say I was beside myself with laughter. I'd also say some of the film's mini-episodes are definitely better than others. Everything with The Pharaohs is flatly ridiculous. I also can't ignore the shadow of Dazed and Confused. Graffiti may have pioneered the format but Dazed perfected it, and did so with a soundtrack and setting that appeals to me a lot more. Still, I am glad I revisited American Graffiti. It was better than my younger selves could recognize. And that ending is legitimately pretty great. Even before the text, just that last glimpse down from the plane stirs a wonderful melancholy.
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Architecton
network
Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Documentary
Thomas Flight
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ID
1234597
Year
2024
Runtime
98 min
Director
Viktor Kossakovsky
TMDB Rating
6.25
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?
Friend Review
An (almost) wordless contemplation of our relationship to rock, stone and concrete, that if you allow it to, will give you fresh eyes on much of what surrounds you. Constantly kept me guessing as to what would come next, full of astounding images, brilliantly edited.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
network
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Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
Thomas Flight
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ID
83533
Year
2025
Runtime
198 min
Director
James Cameron
TMDB Rating
7.614
Overview
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.
Friend Review
One night in the mid 1970s a 20 year old James Cameron is sitting around a campfire with his wife and another couple, peaking on LSD, when bullets start to explode from within the fire.It turns out to build the fire Cameron’s wife had used a bunch of trash from the back of the car, and one of the bags contained a box of 22-caliber shells that Jim had bought for a failed rabbit-hunting expedition.In the hallucinogenic daze of the trip it takes Cameron a few moments to figure out what is happening. “...I heard kind of a “Pew!” And in one of those sort of insightful, just instantaneous flashes, I knew what had happened... So I had to put the fire out.”As the acid is hitting him “like a locomotive” he crawls in the moonlight down to the Colorado river with a bucket to get some water to put out the fire. “The ground is kind of undulating like, I seem to recall an image of it being like a bunch of snakes. Kind of snakes in mud, except it was solid ground.”He makes it back with the bucket of water, crawling like a commando to avoid the bullets that are spraying out of the fire. Not thinking through the consequences of throwing a bucket of colder water onto a roaring bonfire from two feet away on acid, he describes the ensuing steam explosion as happening in “jump cuts” which “knocked him backward” due to the perceptual intensity. He falls back into the river, and lays there tripping while watching a “big, you know, volcano of steam” coming out of the fire, thankful that the crisis was averted.It would be easy for me to imagine that, right there, laying in the river, looking up at a volcano of steam rising into the moonlit sky, with the adrenaline of a fire shooting bullets at him and his wife mixing with the acid in his blood, young impressionable, pre-frontal-cortex not yet formed Jim Cameron saw images that struck him so profoundly that they manifested almost 50 years later in Avatar: Fire and Ash. But that is the kind of wild speculation a “serious film critic” should probably avoid.Full review on Seeing Through Film or Patreon.
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Backrooms
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Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
Thomas Flight
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ID
1083381
Year
2026
Runtime
111 min
Director
Kane Parsons
TMDB Rating
6.8
Personal Rating
4
Overview
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
Friend Review
We want to disconnect from the loop, to escape, to find freedom, the sky, and natural light. But we are somehow drawn deeper into a labyrinth of fragmented memories.
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Barbie
network
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Max, YouTube, Plex
Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Pop Detective
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ID
346698
Year
2023
Runtime
114 min
Director
Greta Gerwig
Writer
Noah Baumbach
Cinematographer
Rodrigo Prieto
Cast
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae
Studio
LuckyChap Entertainment
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
6.922
Tagline
She's everything. He's just Ken.
Overview
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Network Sources
Pop Detective
User Review
_Barbie_ reels you in with its silly humor and fantastical ideas. The war of Kens during the last half hour of the film is an all-timer because a battle full of handsome maneuvers, like showing off th…
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Beau Travail
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—
Drama
—
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ID
14626
Year
2000
Director
Claire Denis
TMDB Rating
7.126
Personal Rating
4
Overview
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
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false
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Blue Bayou
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
644089
Year
2021
Runtime
117 min
Director
Justin Chon
TMDB Rating
7.4
Overview
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Friend Review
Opened on Friday, September 17.
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false
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false
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Border
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Fantasy, Drama, Crime
—
*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
517839
Original Title
Gräns
Year
2018
Runtime
110 min
Director
Ali Abbasi
Writer
Isabella Eklöf
Cinematographer
Nadim Carlsen
Cast
Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren
Studio
Meta Film Stockholm
Country
DK
Language
sv
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
6.689
Personal Rating
4
Tagline
Sense something beautiful
Overview
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
User Review
_Eraserhead_ who?
_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
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Born in Flames
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel
Drama, Science Fiction
—
Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time – 2022
ID
36832
Year
1983
Runtime
80 min
Director
Lizzie Borden
Writer
Lizzie Borden
Cinematographer
Ed Bowes
Cast
Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy, Pat Murphy
Studio
C.A.P.S.
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
6.116
Overview
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
User Review
Somehow or other, the US of A has seen a revolution replace it’s government with a form of left-leaning social democracy that aims to prioritise the needs of just about everyone from feminists to gays…
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false
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false
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Broken English
network
Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Thomas Flight
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ID
13337
Year
2007
Runtime
97 min
Director
Zoe Cassavetes
TMDB Rating
5.9
Overview
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children, while she's in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage". But after a series of disastrous dates, Nora unexpectedly meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman who opens her eyes to a lot more than love.
Friend Review
All I can say is thank you Mike White for sending me down the Parker Posey indie rabbit hole. Zero regrets.
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Bugonia
list
Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Science Fiction, Thriller, Comedy
—
Kermode & Mayo Film of the Week
ID
701387
Year
2025
Runtime
119 min
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer
Will Tracy
Cinematographer
Robbie Ryan
Cast
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone
Studio
Element Pictures
Country
IE
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.311
Personal Rating
3
Tagline
Of all the abductions, this one is different.
Overview
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
User Review
It was a good movie to watch. Brutal torture and low pace in the middle may be harsh and boring, but eventually covers everything.
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Caché
list
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Mystery, Drama, Thriller
—
Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
ID
445
Year
2005
Runtime
118 min
Director
Michael Haneke
Writer
Michael Haneke
Cinematographer
Christian Berger
Cast
Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Duval
Studio
Les Films du Losange
Country
FR
Language
fr
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.02
Tagline
Hidden within.
Overview
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.
User Review
On the face of it, "Georges" (Daniel Auteuil) and wife "Anne" (Juliette Binoche) are a successfully married couple. Both working in publishing, he has his own review programme on television whilst the…
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Cactus Flower
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Romance
bkrewind
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ID
28289
Year
1969
Runtime
103 min
Director
Gene Saks
TMDB Rating
7.203
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Friend Review
I find this film a charming and pleasant watch (save me, Nurse Bergman), but I also agree with Gene Siskel’s take in the Chicago Tribune. Farces are always predictable to some degree. (Of course the prickly nurse is going to blossom. That’s the titular metaphor!!) But the best farces are witty or outrageous enough to compensate for their predictability, and to me, Cactus Flower never quite reaches that level. Still...it's cute and worth it. Learn more about the film and Goldie Hawn's Oscar-winning performance here: youtu.be/W7rF2J1YfiE?si=8d1emnpUaDKF22or
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Candyman
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror, Thriller
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
565028
Year
2021
Runtime
91 min
Director
Nia DaCosta
TMDB Rating
6
Overview
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
Friend Review
Opened on Friday, August 27, and closed on Thursday, September 16.
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Cape Fear
watchlist
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Crime, Thriller
—
—
ID
1598
Year
1991
Runtime
128 min
Director
Martin Scorsese
Writer
Wesley Strick
Cinematographer
Freddie Francis
Cast
Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker
Studio
Amblin Entertainment
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.262
Tagline
Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.
Overview
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
User Review
Meet Max Cady, the most terrific villain role De Niro ever played simply because he successfully portrayed a crook who possesses a very complex personality of being stone-cold, violent, absolutely mer…
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false
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Captain America: Brave New World
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Pop Detective
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ID
822119
Year
2025
Runtime
119 min
Director
Julius Onah
TMDB Rating
5.965
Overview
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Friend Review
“Captain America: Endless Clunky Exposition” might be the worst of all 36 Marvel movies. What an absolute mess both narratively and visually. The characters spend much of their time explaining to each other exactly what’s happening and why and they do it so often and so unnecessarily that the whole thing honestly should have just been a podcast.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
network
YouTube
Documentary
Thomas Flight
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ID
59490
Year
2010
Runtime
90 min
Director
Werner Herzog
TMDB Rating
7.078
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Friend Review
Drove 2 hours to see it in 3D and IMAX. Wasn't sure how much it would change the experience, but wow, leave it to Herzog to drop what is possibly the single most inspired use of 3D I've ever experienced in film (and in a documentary no less). The paintings are much better understood and appreciated when you can experience their relationship to the dimensionality of the cave, and it's not an insignificant change. If you have a chance to catch it this way, I'd highly recommend.
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Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
network
—
Documentary, Drama, History
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
842096
Year
2021
Runtime
100 min
Director
Rachel Boynton
TMDB Rating
4
Overview
A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama's final year in office through the present.
Friend Review
Followed by a panel discussion about tackling race, racism and US History in American classrooms. Participants included filmmaker Rachel Boynton; Museum of African-American History's L’Merchie Frazier; Boston Latin School's Cate Arnold; and Civil War historian and educator Kevin Levin (moderator).
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false
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Clueless
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Comedy, Romance
Coolidge Corner Theatre
—
ID
9603
Year
1995
Runtime
97 min
Director
Amy Heckerling
TMDB Rating
7.253
Overview
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
Friend Review
With a Rewind! after party at Parlour.
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false
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false
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Cool World
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Pop Detective
—
ID
14239
Year
1992
Runtime
102 min
Director
Ralph Bakshi
TMDB Rating
5.669
Overview
While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.
Friend Review
This movie wants so badly to be a darker edgier (and more misogynist) version of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” but the story is utterly incomprehensible to such a degree that it’s basically unwatchable.
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false
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false
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Cries and Whispers
list
Criterion Channel, Max, Amazon Prime
Drama
—
Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time – 2022
ID
10238
Original Title
Viskningar och rop
Year
1972
Runtime
95 min
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer
Sven Nykvist
Cast
Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Harriet Andersson, Erland Josephson
Studio
Cinematograph AB
Country
SE
Language
sv
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.864
Tagline
Four women dressed in white in a mansion painted red... haunted by whispers and cries.
Overview
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
User Review
Though my personal favourite of Bergman's films will always be the first I've seen, for sentimental reasons ('Through a Glass Darkly'), this is outstanding. Essential for all cinephiles. A masterclass of acting, directing and cinematography. A dish to be savoured, exquisitely.
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Daddy's Home
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy
Pop Detective
—
ID
274167
Year
2015
Runtime
96 min
Director
Sean Anders
TMDB Rating
6.297
Overview
The story of a mild-mannered radio executive who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids.
Friend Review
This was painful to sit through but does provide endless examples for Pop Detective video essays on masculinity. The second one is supposed to be even worse. Pray for me.
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false
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Darkman
watchlist
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
—
—
ID
9556
Year
1990
Runtime
95 min
Director
Sam Raimi
Writer
Joshua Goldin
Cinematographer
Bill Pope
Cast
Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, Nelson Mashita
Studio
Universal Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
6.426
Tagline
They destroyed everything he had, everything he was. Now, crime has a new enemy and justice has a new face.
Overview
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
User Review
Enter Darkman.
Sam Raimi’s trial run for the Spider-Man franchise is a whole bunch of fun. Liam Neeson plays Dr. Peyton Westlake, a super scientist who after a major run-in with the villainous Robe…
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true
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false
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Review (rt)
Jay Scott · Globe and Mail — "The picture escalates into absurdity and the last half hour, essentially a chase sequence, is marred by surprisingly cheesy special effects."
Review (rt)
Joe Kane · New York Daily News — "The pic supplies more than enough sick wit and visual sweep to make it well worth a look."
Review (rt)
Nigel Andrews · Financial Times — "Neither the script, by five writers, nor the acting, by everyone, persuades."
Das Boot
—
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, History, War
—
—
ID
387
Year
1981
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
TMDB Rating
8.08
Personal Rating
4
Overview
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
On Watchlist
false
Watched
true
Days of Heaven
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Romance
Maia
—
ID
16642
Year
1978
Runtime
94 min
Director
Terrence Malick
TMDB Rating
7.474
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Friend Review
sam shepard distractingly sexy
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false
Watched
false
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Dazed and Confused
watchlist
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Drama
—
—
ID
9571
Year
1993
Runtime
102 min
Director
Richard Linklater
Writer
Richard Linklater
Cinematographer
Lee Daniel
Cast
Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins
Studio
Alphaville Films
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.3
Tagline
It was the last day of school in 1976. A time they'd never forget. (If only they could remember)
Overview
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
User Review
Really solid sophomore effort by Linklater.
Loved his Hitchcock homage, especially.
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Review (rt)
Peter Bradshaw · Guardian — "It’s a strange film in many ways, affectless and directionless, coolly refusing the usual dramatic beats and climactic moments, and as unreflective as MOR rock."
Review (rt)
Chuck Bowen · Slant Magazine — "The meaninglessness of it all is the meaning of the film."
Review (rt)
Ben Thompson · Sight & Sound — "Few of these people are going anywhere, but they are not going anywhere with style and dignity."
Degradable
network
—
—
Hbomberguy
—
ID
1255555
Year
0
Director
Aaron Mento
TMDB Rating
0
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A broke stoner is hired by a whacked out UFO abductee to protect a cosmic artifact stolen from depraved space aliens.
Friend Review
This is the movie I had assumed Clerks was as a teenager, having only seen five seconds of Mallrats. But that might just be because it's in black and white.A live-action cartoon where two actors play four characters, sometimes all in the same scene. I know the actors so I started off worried I was only enjoying it so much because I was watching was my pals, but it's too creative and funny as a movie, with distinct editing and sound choices, for it to be that. I don't know the writer, editor or the camera guy but they're all knocking it out of the park creatively. You can tell they were making each other laugh while they were making it, which creates a magical energy where you're in the room too. No-one's assuring each other it'll be funny on screen later, trust me, when the take is over. I feel like that's faint praise, but really it's amazing how few movies clear that bar.I wasn't prepared for it to be AS fast-paced and funny as it was. I can't believe how much happens in a movie well under 90 minutes, or how many places it goes while technically confined to one apartment.This is one of those movies it'll be fun to show friends who haven't heard of it before on a whim. Keep it in your back pocket until the right kind of party.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
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—
Comedy, Crime
—
—
ID
8130
Year
1985
Director
Susan Seidelman
TMDB Rating
6.064
Personal Rating
4
Overview
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
On Watchlist
false
Watched
true
Dinner in America
watchlist
Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Romance, Comedy, Music
—
—
ID
653664
Year
2020
Runtime
108 min
Director
Adam Rehmeier
Writer
Adam Rehmeier
Cinematographer
Jean-Philippe Bernier
Cast
Kyle Gallner, Emily Skeggs, Pat Healy, Griffin Gluck, Lea Thompson
Studio
Red Hour
Country
US
Language
en
TMDB Rating
7.7
Overview
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.
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Review (nyt)
Concepción de León · The New York Times — "A rage-fueled rock singer on the run from the police meets and falls in love with a gullible young woman eager to escape her circumstances."
Review (rt)
Nikki Baughan · Sight & Sound — "The palpable chemistry between Gallner and Kreggs is enhanced by some stunning wide-screen work by director of photography Jean-Philippe Bernier and an infectious electro-punk score by John Swihart."
Review (rt)
Sheila O'Malley · RogerEbert.com — "A movie with anti-establishment anti-social quicksilver coursing through its veins, but at its heart it is a sweet love story, one of the sweetest in recent memory."
Review (rt)
Concepción de León · New York Times — "“Dinner in America” delivers on surprise and explosiveness, but much of its offensive language, both racist and homophobic, feels gratuitous in a film that might have otherwise landed as an offbeat love story."
Disclosure Day
network
—
Science Fiction, Thriller
Daniel Simpson
—
ID
1275779
Year
2026
Runtime
145 min
Director
Steven Spielberg
TMDB Rating
6.672
Personal Rating
4
Overview
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.
Friend Review
Disclosure Day has opened to a somewhat icy response, with even people who like the film unsure of what exactly to make of it. Finally catching up with the film for myself, I get why. On the surface, this looks like Steven Spielberg's return to big event filmmaking. Aliens! Excitement! Swelling John Williams music! Special effects galore. But the actual film is a lot odder. In part this actually feels like a very direct response to The Fabelmans. That movie saw Spielberg recreating his childhood memories to reckon with both the wonderment and trauma in his past... and that's literally what the characters in Disclosure Day do. To that end, it makes sense that so many of the details of this close encounter story feel so familiar. The look of the aliens is classic Roswell little gray men with big black eyes and the big secrets the characters are trying to leak all movie, while earth shattering within the diegesis, are also pretty standard within the genre. You might find that disappointing, narratively I sort of did, but it makes more sense when you view the film as an exercise in Spielberg reckoning with his own legacy of alien cinema. It's less about the details than it is what they represent, in an audience's capacity to believe, and in Spielberg's ability to believe for that matter. It's not lost on me how much more pessimistic Disclosure Day is compared to E.T. or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Those movies had their thrills and danger, but those feelings ultimately surrendered to a wonderment as its characters returned to a childlike innocence. Disclosure Day has gestures to that effect, but it also is much more explicit about humanity's inability to grapple with others, and while the finale has a strong sense of Spielbergian hope, the full implications of it are not exactly the most comforting, especially based on what the rest of the film has shown us.Of course, Spielberg is too much of a natural entertainer to completely give himself to self-indulgence. Disclosure Day is still a blast to watch, with great scene construction and camerawork moment to moment and some top-notch set-pieces. The mental interrogation into farmhouse car chase, the train stunts, and the play with invisibility are all propulsively exciting in a way no one does better than Spielberg. On that note, this is also my favourite John Williams score in a hot minute. Is it extremely standard Williams? Absolutely, but he's also got material that allows for his sense of whimsy and fun in a way that he hasn't in a long time. The cast is also stacked with talent with Emily Blunt in particular doing some really amazing work, possibly career best. The movie does have problems too. Spielberg's ambitions and imagination are not fully supported by David Koepp's screenplay, which can be a bit pedestrian and occasionally resorts to clunky exposition or thematic dumps. Some of the visual effects are also not totally convincing. Some of those CGI animals look pretty weak and the major flashback has a definite Christmas Coke commercial energy. That said I wonder if even those imperfections are somewhat intentional, a veneer of schmaltzy wonderment that's actually hollow, synthetic, and utterly inhuman. Maybe. I'm not totally sure yet.Disclosure Day is an imperfect movie. It's certainly not the sublime experience that West Side Story or The Fabelmans were. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't utterly hooked from frame one and having a great time. I mean, it's a Spielberg alien movie where the main character is named Daniel and the story begins at a pro-wrestling match with multiple audience members wearing Judas Priest t-shirts. How could I not love this?
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Dog Day Afternoon
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Maia
—
ID
968
Year
1975
Runtime
125 min
Director
Sidney Lumet
TMDB Rating
7.849
Personal Rating
5
Overview
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
Friend Review
that sound design at the end with the planes had me CLENCHING
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false
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Dreadnaught
network
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime
Action, Comedy
Daniel Simpson
—
ID
64305
Year
1981
Runtime
95 min
Director
Yuen Woo-ping
TMDB Rating
7.1
Personal Rating
4
Overview
Mousy, a timid laundryman, crosses paths with a violent criminal known only as White Tiger, who hides amongst a theatre troupe, murdering anyone who discovers his identity.
Friend Review
My primary interest in Criterion's Hong Kong Action playlist are the gun fueled modern action films of the 80s and 90s from guys like John Woo, and in that regard Dreadnaught is a real gem. This 1981 movie from famed choreographer Yuen Woo-ping is technically closer to being a traditional martial arts movie given its period setting and emphasis on hand-to-hand combat, but it's also kind of a slasher movie where the hero is stalked by a supernaturally powered villain dressed in black and with terrifying face paint AND it's also a comedy with the laughs brought in the form of martial arts style buffoonery. Even the fight scenes aren't really traditional fight scenes. One of the stand-out fights is a battle between two pairs each in lion dance costumes performing in a parade. The collection of wacky ideas could well have resulted in a mess, but Dreadnaught threads the needle pretty well. It's constantly entertaining and balances the thrills and laughs in pretty well equal measure. Very fun watch this one.
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Elio
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Animation, Adventure, Science Fiction, Family
Pop Detective
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ID
1022787
Year
2025
Runtime
98 min
Director
Madeline Sharafian
TMDB Rating
6.902
Overview
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
Friend Review
This was a cute enough movie but just imagine how absolutely incredible it could have been if only Disney hadn't decided to rip the queer themes out of the original story.
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Eraserhead
watchlist
—
—
—
—
ID
985
Year
1977
On Watchlist
true
Watched
true
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
network
Amazon Prime
Drama, Comedy
Coolidge Corner Theatre
—
ID
624899
Year
2021
Runtime
115 min
Director
Jonathan Butterell
TMDB Rating
6.189
Overview
Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a "real" career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for sure: he is going to be a sensation. Supported by his loving mom and his amazing friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.
Friend Review
Opened on Friday, September 10, and closed on Thursday, September 16.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
network
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Thomas Flight
—
ID
545611
Year
2022
Runtime
140 min
Director
Daniel Scheinert
Writer
Daniel Kwan
Cinematographer
Larkin Seiple
Cast
Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis
Studio
IAC Films
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.7
Tagline
The universe is so much bigger than you realize.
Overview
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Network Sources
Thomas Flight
User Review
Everything is fake.
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false
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true
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Exit 8
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Horror, Mystery
Thomas Flight
—
ID
1408208
Year
2025
Runtime
95 min
Director
Genki Kawamura
TMDB Rating
6.877
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
Friend Review
Relatable. This kind of struggled to fully grab me emotionally, and the score was a little overbearing in some moments, but I really loved this as a formal experiment in world building, structure, and space in film. It understands what it’s trying to do really well and the atmosphere and layers of story all tie really nicely together with the themes it’s digging into.
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false
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false
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Fanny and Alexander
list
Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Max, Amazon Prime, Plex
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
—
Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
ID
5961
Original Title
Fanny och Alexander
Year
1982
Runtime
188 min
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer
Sven Nykvist
Cast
Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Jan Malmsjö, Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren
Studio
Cinematograph AB
Country
SE
Language
sv
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.774
Overview
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
User Review
Released in 1982 in a 5-hour version for Swedish television and cut to 180 minutes for theatrical release, Fanny and Alexander was meant to be Ingmar Bergman's last film. Though the great auteur lived…
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false
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Female Trouble
network
—
Comedy, Crime
bkrewind
—
ID
14267
Year
1976
Runtime
98 min
Director
John Waters
Writer
John Waters
Cinematographer
John Waters
Cast
Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
Studio
Dreamland
Country
US
Language
en
TMDB Rating
6.885
Personal Rating
5
Tagline
Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.
Overview
Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.
Friend Review
Female Trouble establishes Waters as one of the great observers of America’s perverse obsession with fame and rubbernecking disasters. Filmed in 1973 as the Watergate scandal unfolded on national television, Female Trouble, reveling in sleaze and gore, seemingly anticipates a media landscape which encourages and rewards the most nakedly ambitious deviants. People will do anything for attention, and many of those things are stupid and dangerous, like eating a tide pod or running for president.Read the full intro I gave at Quad Cinema by subscribing to my Substack: bkrewind.substack.com/p/crime-is-beauty-female-trouble
Network Sources
bkrewind
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false
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false
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Fight Club
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Thriller
Pop Detective, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Daniel Simpson
—
ID
550
Year
1999
Runtime
139 min
Director
David Fincher
Writer
Jim Uhls
Cinematographer
Jeff Cronenweth
Cast
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto
Studio
Fox 2000 Pictures
Country
DE
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
8.438
Tagline
Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
Overview
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Network Sources
Pop Detective, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Daniel Simpson
User Review
The best movie i've seen, also my head hurts
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true
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Frank
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Netflix, YouTube
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
—
*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
171372
Year
2014
Runtime
95 min
Director
Lenny Abrahamson
Writer
Jon Ronson
Cinematographer
James Mather
Cast
Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, François Civil
Studio
Runaway Fridge Productions
Country
IE
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
6.846
Personal Rating
3
Tagline
When you think you've gone far enough, go farther.
Overview
A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
User Review
Where to start with this movie, with **Frank**? Should I start with describing the man inside the giant head, or maybe the very head itself? I could also try and describe the plot, or maybe the music,…
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Freddy vs. Jason
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
6466
Year
2003
Runtime
97 min
Director
Ronny Yu
TMDB Rating
6.1
Overview
Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.
Friend Review
Friday the 13th double feature in the Rocky Woods.
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Gerald's Game
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ID
343674
Year
2017
Personal Rating
3
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false
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Science Fiction, Action, Comedy
Pop Detective
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ID
1119449
Year
2026
Runtime
134 min
Director
Gore Verbinski
TMDB Rating
7.076
Overview
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Friend Review
This movie is bonkers bananas. I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen next and that rarely happens. There are some weird Grampa Simpson "those dang kids on their phones" type moments though.
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
User Review
The terrible story of two orphaned Japanese kids during the ending of WWII.
Incredibly well told and totally moving, without using clichés. A must seen in the anime arena.
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Review (rt)
Adam Kempenaar · Filmspotting — "It’s one thing to have a film really sadden you, but I also found it sublime in its beauty... [Setsuko and Seita's] happiness together is transcendent."
Review (rt)
Glenn Kenny · New York Times — "One of the most startling and moving animated films ever."
Review (rt)
Chris Cabin · Slant Magazine — "Isao Takahata makes survival the thematic core of the story, but he never degrades his characters or fetishizes their suffering."
Happy as Lazzaro
list
Netflix
Drama, Fantasy
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*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
481432
Original Title
Lazzaro felice
Year
2018
Runtime
128 min
Director
Alice Rohrwacher
Writer
Alice Rohrwacher
Cinematographer
Hélène Louvart
Cast
Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luke Chikovani, Alba Rohrwacher, Sergi López
Studio
Ad Vitam Production
Country
FR
Language
it
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
7.4
Overview
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
User Review
‘Happy as Lazzaro’ comes and goes like an airy fable but doesn’t make as much of an impact as it wants to. Through a lack of convincing and earned pivot, its first half in realism drags down the escap…
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Heart of a Dog
list
Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Apple TV
Documentary
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*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
352197
Year
2015
Runtime
75 min
Director
Laurie Anderson
Writer
Laurie Anderson
Cast
Archie, Gatto, Lolabelle, Little Will, Nitro
Studio
Canal Street Communications
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
6.528
Tagline
What do you see when you close your eyes?
Overview
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
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Hellraiser: Deader
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror, Thriller
Daniel Simpson
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ID
17455
Year
2005
Runtime
89 min
Director
Rick Bota
TMDB Rating
4.588
Personal Rating
0.5
Overview
When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last.
Friend Review
I mean, the title alone says it all, doesn't it? Deader? For fuck sake. Here we have a journalist investigating a cult that worships the cenobites and/or is trying to achieve their power. Honestly, not the worst premise in the world, but it's abundantly clear that the movie started as a non-Hellraiser horror movie that only did the barest minimum to add in Pinhead and The Box. I expect the stench of 'direct-to-video' trash to be all over these movies, but their complete failure to do anything of note with the Hellraiser world is even more offensive. This is one of the rich in ideas horror franchises but every sequel is somehow more boring and less inspired than the last. Ugh. This shit can't end soon enough.
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Heroes Shed No Tears
network
Criterion Channel, Plex, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Action, War, Drama
Daniel Simpson
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ID
69161
Year
1984
Runtime
87 min
Director
John Woo
TMDB Rating
6.5
Personal Rating
3
Overview
The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves pursued by his forces, and the forces of a bitter Thai officer. The Chinese mercenaries are vastly outnumbered, and as their numbers begin to dwindle, their desperation pulls them into a corner as their enemies close in on them.
Friend Review
Heroes Shed No Tears is closer to what I expect from John Woo than Last Hurrah for Chivalry in that there's lots of guns and shooting but otherwise this is still pretty far removed from the style he'd become famous for. The film has a bare minimum of plot, really more of a premise: group of mercenaries are dropped into Indochina to extract a major drug lord, fighting their way through drug gangs and Vietnamese soldiers while the leader also has to escort his own family through. Otherwise, the movie is mostly just a series of largescale shootouts and bloody violence. That action is legitimately impressive, not the operatic glory of The Killer or Hard Boiled, but muscular and powerful. The action is the main selling point and arguably the only point because everything else is utterly threadbare. I'd also say that the context of the action is somewhat troubling. This isn't actively dealing with the Vietnam War to the extent something like Eastern Condors is but the imagery is certainly evocative of that conflict and in ways which are sometimes unpleasant. Not enough to ruin things mind you, but it certainly puts a damper on the excitement.
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High School
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Documentary
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ID
60315
Year
1969
Runtime
75 min
Director
Frederick Wiseman
Writer
Frederick Wiseman
Cinematographer
Richard Leiterman
Studio
Osti Productions
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
7.199
Overview
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
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Husbands
watchlist
Amazon Prime
Comedy, Drama
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ID
52105
Year
1970
Runtime
131 min
Director
John Cassavetes
Writer
John Cassavetes
Cinematographer
Victor J. Kemper
Cast
Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre, Jenny Lee Wright
Studio
Faces Music
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
6.7
Tagline
A comedy about life, death and freedom.
Overview
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
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Review (rt)
Phil Strassberg · Arizona Republic — "[Husbands] serves up heavy dosage of humor and tragedy and an impressive honesty rarely captured in American movies. Cassavetes' scripting and direction are quite realistic and often brilliant."
Review (rt)
Richard Brody · The New Yorker — "Few films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart."
Review (rt)
Derek Malcolm · London Evening Standard — "Cassavetes was a masterful anti-Hollywood director who probed human failings until he reached right under the skin."
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
list
—
Drama, Romance
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ID
12130
Original Title
黑眼圈
Year
2006
Runtime
118 min
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Writer
Tsai Ming-liang
Cinematographer
Tsai Ming-liang
Cast
Lee Kang-sheng, Norman Atun, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Pearlly Chua, Lee-Lin Liew
Studio
Soudaine Compagnie
Country
TW
Language
zh
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
6.5
Overview
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.
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I Love Boosters
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Comedy, Science Fiction, Crime
Thomas Flight
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ID
1227877
Year
2026
Runtime
113 min
Director
Boots Riley
TMDB Rating
6
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing from her stores and reselling them at a lower price — what they call 'fashion-forward philanthropy'.
Friend Review
Much to love and much that doesn't quite land. I really don't mind if Boots wants to construct and entire sci-fi plot device as an explicit (and explained to the point where it can't even be considered a metaphor) representation of dialectical materialism, but then I would have liked if he took things much further and explored the theory much more deeply. If you're going to commit to going full marxist theory exposition mode on your audience, why not really commit? I guess I don't have that much faith that just defining terms is going to help people? It's what you do with those terms.Anyway love the costumes, overall very fun, but somehow way less provocative than I thought it would be.
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I'm Your Man
network
Netflix, Plex, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Science Fiction, Comedy, Romance
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
795813
Year
2021
Runtime
108 min
Director
Maria Schrader
TMDB Rating
6.743
Overview
Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom, a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.
Friend Review
Opened on Friday, September 24.
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
network
Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama
Maia
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ID
1160360
Year
2025
Runtime
113 min
Director
Mary Bronstein
TMDB Rating
6.331
Personal Rating
5
Overview
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Friend Review
If I Had Legs was one of two films last fall to depict the frayed edges of motherhood. The other was Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, which centres on Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a new mother living in isolation and struggling to maintain her grip on reality. But Ramsay’s hesitance to fully lean into her source material, and her impulse to place undue focus on Lawrence’s beauty, transforms postpartum psychosis into an oddly “sexy” and meandering affair. I was thus eager for something a bit uglier, and If I Had Legs delivered.Linda, played by the marvelous Rose Byrne, is a Montauk-based psycho-therapist whose slowly deteriorating mental state can be attributed to a series of mundane, but anxiety-inducing events: her young daughter suffering from a pediatric feeding disorder; the ceiling of her home collapsing inwards and leaving in its place a ghastly asbestos-laden hole; a runaway client. It’s likely that Linda would ordinarily be able to tackle each issue with a level head, but without the support of her husband, who is away on an eight-week long work trip, she’s left to crumble under their weight. Bronstein, who shopped the script around for several years before it was finally picked up in 2023, is unyielding in her approach. Like incorporating elements of phantasmagoria by externalizing Linda’s mental state as images of throbbing, galactic clusters of light. Or with Linda’s child, for example, who remains faceless for the majority of the movie. Her voice a whine stitched into a tapestry of incessant background noises no more prominent to us, or Linda, than the beeping of the child’s feeding machine or the inane babble of Linda’s patients. All is absorbed into that galactic cluster because Linda suffers from a “dead brain thing,” a mind with absolutely no space left inside. This is a movie about the limits of human capacity. Linda is crumbling, but unable to fully embody this feeling for fear of slipping out of her motherly role and scaring her sickly child. Her maternal autopilot allows her to miraculously carry on the rote tasks of everyday life, but she feels or hears none of it. Bronstein then mirrors this with an exploration of Linda’s career. Linda is both a therapist with little ability to provide any real help to her patients, and patient to a fellow therapist, played by Conan O’Brian, who is both victim of her constant needling, and perpetrator of the very limits Linda exhibits in her own practice. O’Brian’s therapist is not a bad one per se, but his stony implacability makes you want to throttle him. It also reminds you that he, like Linda, is only human, and only has so much to give. Full review on Polyester
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In the Gloaming
watchlist
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Max, YouTube
Drama, TV Movie
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ID
63148
Year
1997
Runtime
61 min
Director
Christopher Reeve
Cinematographer
Frederick Elmes
Cast
Robert Sean Leonard, Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, David Strathairn
Studio
HBO
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
6.017
Overview
Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
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Inside Out
network
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Animation, Family, Adventure, Drama, Comedy
Maia
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ID
150540
Year
2015
Runtime
95 min
Director
Pete Docter
Writer
Meg LeFauve
Cinematographer
Patrick Lin
Cast
Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black
Studio
Pixar
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
7.908
Personal Rating
5
Tagline
Meet the little voices inside your head.
Overview
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.
Network Sources
Maia
User Review
A very tasteful movie indeed
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Interstellar
watchlist
Paramount+, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Plex
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
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ID
157336
Year
2014
Runtime
169 min
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Jonathan Nolan
Cinematographer
Hoyte van Hoytema
Cast
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck
Studio
Legendary Pictures
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
8.481
Tagline
Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.
Overview
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
User Review
Boring crap.
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Review (nyt)
Andy Webster · The New York Times — "Emer Reynolds’s dazzling film traces the history of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Like the NASA team that produced these spacecraft, it inspires awe."
Review (rt)
Kevin Maher · The Times (UK) — "[A] gorgeous, heartbreaking epic."
Review (rt)
Wendy Ide · The Times (UK) — "Staggeringly beautiful, bafflingly complex, this is proper event cinema."
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Drama, History
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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time – 2022
ID
3059
Year
1916
Runtime
197 min
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Anita Loos
Cinematographer
Billy Bitzer
Cast
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse
Studio
Triangle Film Corporation
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
7.082
Tagline
The Cruel Hand of Intolerance
Overview
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Iron Lung
network
YouTube
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
Hbomberguy
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ID
1116201
Year
2026
Runtime
125 min
Director
Mark Fischbach
TMDB Rating
6.992
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
In a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as "The Quiet Rapture" caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon, using a small submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung".
Friend Review
There's a trilogy of movies adapting the first Mobile Suit Gundam. It's about seven hours total. It gets boring in stretches, and it keeps going, and going. And as more horrors of war are inflicted on the cast, you start to miss the boring bits. You didn't know how bad things were going to get for these poor guys. It was nicer when they were alive. You regret feeling bored, like actually feel sorry you wanted things to speed up. By hours 5-7 you're just a little bit insane, on behalf of the smashed men and boys killing each other over ideas they don't understand.I've never felt anything like that before or since, but holy shit, Iron Lung comes closer than almost any movie I can think of. And it does it in 2 hours and 7 minutes. I just had to google the runtime and I'm sincerely surprised it's that short. It's a 3-14 hour long experience which somehow takes only 2.1 hours to watch.Boring sometimes? A bit, yeah. But I think those parts are boring - dare he say it, the pretentious buffoon, he's gonna say it - on purpose! The film captures the mind-numbing emptiness of flying blind in a tiny submarine where you COULD die any moment, but that moment might come several quiet, empty days from now. The fear slowly becomes a crushing drudgery. If it tried too hard to be exciting at all times, I think it would betray the unique thing it pulls off here. The main thing that REALLY has to work? It's working. Do I have problems? Who cares, they fucking did it!When you watch a "YouTuber movie," or a game adaptation in this vein, you keep a look out for the telltale signs of cringe. Is the star going to self-consciously try to 'prove they're a real actor?' Are they going to lovingly recreate the exact beats and visuals of the game without really adapting it into something new? Are they going to get bogged down in 'the lore,' or making a 'fixed' version which elaborates and explains it all, or are they going to lean on the audience's assumed understanding of all that stuff already, and expect people to come up with their own theories instead of telling a complete story? Will it feel incomplete without having played the game, or be so unlike it that it might as well have been something else?Iron Lung has some of those issues, maybe, but I'm genuinely really impressed by how well it threads the needle. The film is quite literally a vehicle for its main star, but it's shot and edited as if Mark directed someone else in the main role. There's a part where Mark gets a dab of blood on his hand and wipes it on his trousers, and it's LOVING. You see the ribbing of the fabric, the seeping-in of the blood, its shininess in the light. It knows to focus on the feel and atmosphere. A worse movie would cut or shorten that shot, or never have shot it at all. SO much thinking must have gone into where to put the camera, how to highlight the physicality of the space, and how to make that very small room keep feeling new and strange. It's not in a rush to prove Markiplier can act or direct or edit, which sort of proves he can.The sound design was brill. I love Andrew Hulshult's music, and there hasn't been 'guy fumbling with a floppy map while wearing fingerless gloves' foley this good for a long time. This choice of adaptation feels very personal. It's hard not to see parallels between the game's premise, disposably sitting in a small room hacking away at inscrutable work with an unknown chance of success, and being a YouTuber. All the anxieties about what this 'job' entails at its worst are balled up, calcified and atrophied under years of pressure and stress, and vomited back up like rotting stones, all over the floor of the SM-13. Not quite literally, but sort of literally.I think it veers a little too much into lore territory. Too much backstory for a bottle-movie with minimalist exposition focused on a mysterious and unexplainable wider plot. The movie should come prepared to answer the threads it raises, or just raise less of them. I don't really care what the convict was convicted of, or how he feels about his past, or the names of space stations and their various factions, and a bit too much time is spent on it without it adding up to anything. The game did not have a sequence where you press f to ritualistically twiddle a glass thingy you found before you could continue playing, and it was better for it. You could shave a good 8 minutes off this movie and only improve it, but I also kind of admire the excess. This is THE IRON LUNG MOVIE and my god, people who liked reading the lore in that terminal they added in a patch are going to get their fill too, even if it drags the people who wanted to watch a movie down with them. Fuck me for being annoyed about it! I deserve even less!I feel my brain thinking about this film like it's a film, and not, like, Redlettermedia's Space Cop. I didn't have to make excuses for it or say 'it's good for a low-to-mid budget movie helmed by a youtuber.' It's just good! I really wanna know how I would feel about this film if it was made by someone I never heard of and had no connection to a game I liked, but I probably wouldn't see it, and would find out about it a decade later from one of my actually-smart film friends, and mean to watch it, but take another 5 years to do it. It's a nice reminder there's a ton of really good movies out there worth looking for, and a lot still waiting to be made.Even when the writing and story get a bit off track here and there, you have to forgive it, because there's real feelings in there. Like I said, If you've ever had 1,000 subscribers and streamed yourself playing Chess to an audience of 10, you will meet yourself watching this film. This movie is a lesson in how much you can forgive a movie if it has the juice. Crucially, I can guarantee I will pay money to see the next Mark Fischbach film.If you 3d printed the Iron Lung popcorn bucket they would give you free popcorn. I printed one at .2 scale hoping they would give me a small amount of popcorn, then discovered this deal was only for Regal cinemas, and I saw it at an AMC, so now a small Iron Lung popcorn bucket will be in my life forever, for no good reason. It's sharp too. They shouldn't have designed it this sharp.The people who went to the movie with me had an even better time than I did. Later they confessed to me they did ketamine in the bathroom right before watching it. So add 1.5 stars to my review if you are watching it on your dissociative anesthetic of choice.My problems are all minor writing things really. Every aspect of the production is really well done. We need more movies like this, from newer filmmakers who came up through YouTube or elsewhere, and I kinda hope for more weird stuff like this. I hope I get to meet and personally compliment every individual person who worked on this because wow, nice one.Best film of 2026 so far. It's January 31 so that's faint praise but still, I will find the fact this film exists, and is as good as it is, extremely comforting for quite a long time.In Iron Long, all horses are canonically dead. So if you combine that with the drugs it's probably 6 stars
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It Follows
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror, Mystery
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
270303
Year
2015
Runtime
101 min
Director
David Robert Mitchell
TMDB Rating
6.584
Overview
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Friend Review
With a terrifying and exhilarating Haus of Oni horror drag preshow!
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It Was Just an Accident
list
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Thomas Flight
Kermode & Mayo Film of the Week
ID
1456349
Original Title
Un simple accident
Year
2025
Runtime
104 min
Director
Jafar Panahi
Writer
Jafar Panahi
Cinematographer
Amin Jafari
Cast
Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi
Studio
Jafar Panahi Productions
Country
IR
Language
fr
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
7.151
Overview
An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
Friend Review
Second go just locked in how brilliant this is. Funny, angry, nuanced all at the same time. Panahi's unflinching commitment to humanizing every character is a big part of what makes this so powerful, and the filmmaking feels like a culmination of years of developing a very specific style that allowed him to do this. Those long, lingering takes are incredible.
User Review
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/it-was-just-an-accident-review/
"It Was Just an Accident is a testament to the unwavering courage of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker who refuses to be si…
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Jackass: Best and Last
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Action, Comedy, Documentary
Daniel Simpson
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ID
1612018
Year
2026
Runtime
92 min
Director
Jeff Tremaine
Writer
Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña
Cinematographer
Dimitry Elyashkevich
Cast
Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña, Dave England
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
6.683
Tagline
One. Last. Ride.
Overview
The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.
Friend Review
The final installment in the Jackass saga was probably destine to underwhelm. The boys are old, with Johnny Knoxville in particular having suffered a pretty scary injury on the set of the last movie that not only guaranteed these things had an expiration date, but that they couldn't endure much more punishment. Sure enough, Jackass: Best and Last is essentially a clip show of gags from prior movies and shows. Some of these are outtakes or never before officially released, but a lot are just full gags from older movies. There are some new stunts and at least one highlight in the robot prostate exam but few that really standout and it's not a great sign that the best scenes here are the reruns. I suspect that greatest hits compilation will have more power for viewers who have stuck with these morons for decades but as someone who only really started watching Jackass five years ago that culminating power was muted.That being said, the best aspects of Best and Last are the ones that reflect on its finality, on the passage of time, on the fact that these seemingly indestructible doofuses have come to the end of the line. Knoxville and company aren't one for grandiose introspection and fundamentally these movies exist to make people laugh and wince so it never gets too weepy, and it probably shouldn't, but it has its moments. At one point Steve-O jokingly asks Knoxville how he expects anyone to believe this is the last Jackass movie when he said the same thing about the last two, and Knoxville gets a little emotional and stumbles out that this is it. There is a power in seeing that even these guys have gotten old, and have to call it a day.
User Review
If you're British (or Japanese) you might remember Clive James used to showcase a television series called "Endurance" where folks underwent ostensibly painful stunts for the amusement of the audience…
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Jay Kelly
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Netflix
Drama, Comedy
bkrewind
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ID
1069905
Year
2025
Runtime
132 min
Director
Noah Baumbach
TMDB Rating
6.18
Personal Rating
3
Overview
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron.
Friend Review
There are so few films that tackle the "aging actor" vs the "aging actress" trope, so I was curious how this would compare...I don't think this movie really cares about aging at all, it's not really the point, which is fine and maybe an interesting point in and of itself...that Jay Kelly never once pulls at his skin in the mirror like actresses have been doing in movies since the 1950s. He doesn't have the "hey, aren't you....you were so beautiful once..." problem. He mostly just has to debate how gray he should allow his hair to be (again, not something an actress has ever been allowed to ask herself). I am not saying that he should experience those things in this movie. I guess I am saying that men are broadly allowed to age gracefully on screen so we see an actor who doesn't seem to be struggling to land work and whose popularity hasn't wavered very much. Without the true career conflicts that occupy most of the "older actor" genre, you're left with personal conflicts and, personally, seeing a guy be like "wow I should have spent more time with my kids" isn't very compelling and could be said by virtually any successful man in any demanding profession so I often found myself wondering why am I here. Adam Sandler has the more interesting role here and I wish it had been more about him (but not that terrible b plot about the Eiffel Tower).
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
watchlist
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, Max
Drama
—
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ID
44012
Year
1976
Runtime
202 min
Director
Chantal Akerman
Writer
Chantal Akerman
Cinematographer
Babette Mangolte
Cast
Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical
Studio
Paradise Films
Country
BE
Language
fr
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
7.368
Overview
A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.
User Review
Yes, it's 3 hours, but we have to forgive that it's from an era before MTV and the resulting cultural ADD. If I didn't know better, I'd think this was the inspiration for Aronofsky's Academy Award-win…
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Review (rt)
Peter Bradshaw · Guardian — "The silence of Jeanne Dielman is the film’s weather and its atmosphere. It is a silence of terrible loneliness, and a silence in which a storm is gathering."
Review (rt)
Kathleen Sachs · Chicago Reader — "It also demands to be seen on the big screen, where the walls and ceiling of the cinema become the confines of Dielman’s domiciliary rituals..."
Review (rt)
Nick Schager · The Daily Beast — "A portrait of female marginalization, subjugation, and suffering that’s as strikingly empathetic and relevant today as it was in 1975."
Jurassic World Rebirth
network
Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
Pop Detective
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ID
1234821
Year
2025
Runtime
134 min
Director
Gareth Edwards
TMDB Rating
6.275
Overview
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.
Friend Review
AI_chatbot, write me a script for a new Jurassic Park movie. Quality and originality are not important. Must include the most iconic scenes from all previous entries in the franchise. Copy/paste a few core beats from The Land Before Time, Alien, and Godzilla as well. Structure the plot like a basic video game quest involving three macguffins but have each require interacting with a different kind of very very large dinosaur. Character development and dialogue don’t matter but make sure viewers can follow the plot even if they are looking at their phones the whole time. Have the characters repeat core plot details over and over throughout just in case. Also include the Rancor from Star Wars.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
watchlist
Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Plex
Crime, History, Drama
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ID
466420
Year
2023
Runtime
206 min
Director
Martin Scorsese
Writer
Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer
Rodrigo Prieto
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal
Studio
Apple Studios
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.398
Tagline
Can you find the wolves in this picture?
Overview
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
User Review
Way too long. Worse than the book. Leo has a distracting facial expression the whole time. Some writing also pretty bad.
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Review (nyt)
Manohla Dargis · The New York Times — "Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a romance, a western, a whodunit and a lesson in the bloody history of the Osage murders of the 1920s."
Review (rt)
Craig Mathieson · The Age (Australia) — "Even if I want less of Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio as the conspirators and more of Lily Gladstone as the latter’s wife and victim, it’s impossible to deny Scorsese’s artistry. Even flawed, it’s an immense film."
Review (rt)
Keith Phipps · Uproxx — "Lily Gladstone provides the soulful counterweight to the amorality of those who see her and those like her less as humans than resources to be exploited and discarded when used up."
King Kong
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
bkrewind
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ID
244
Year
1933
Runtime
100 min
Director
Merian C. Cooper
TMDB Rating
7.594
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Friend Review
There's a reason Fay Wray is considered the original Scream Queen! Upon her death, Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post wrote a lovely obituary that captured why: “You can’t really call a Fay Wray scream just a scream. It was too rich, dense, urgent, primal—too complete. It wasn’t just noise, it was agony and fear and hopelessness, it carried with it the tragic conviction that civilization was an illusion, and it was driven forward largely by the possibility that Mr. Right would turn out to be a 40 foot tall monkey. You’d scream too, though probably without as much eloquence, beauty or class.”More on Fay Wray and her role as the first Scream Queen here: youtu.be/FpLy0s27LbI
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Kundun
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Drama, History
—
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ID
9746
Year
1997
Runtime
134 min
Director
Martin Scorsese
Writer
Melissa Mathison
Cinematographer
Roger Deakins
Cast
Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Tencho Gyalpo, Tsewang Migyur Khangsar, Gyurme Tethong, Robert Lin
Studio
Touchstone Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
6.792
Tagline
The destiny of a people lies in the heart of a boy.
Overview
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
User Review
If anyone were ever to question the undoubted skill of cinematographer Roger Deakins, then they need only watch this beautifully crafted story of the youth of the 14th Dalai Lama. Filmed in the Morocc…
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L'Argent
list
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime
Crime, Drama
—
Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
ID
42112
Year
1983
Runtime
85 min
Director
Robert Bresson
Writer
Robert Bresson
Cinematographer
Emmanuel Machuel
Cast
Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van Den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Caroline Lang
Studio
Marion's Films
Country
FR
Language
fr
TMDB Rating
6.934
Overview
A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.
User Review
The sentiment of this film is rather horribly - and effectively - cynical. A dodgy 500 Franc note is being circulated amongst businesses and people who know it isn't real. Until, that is, is falls int…
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La La Land
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Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
313369
Year
2016
Runtime
129 min
Director
Damien Chazelle
Writer
Damien Chazelle
Cinematographer
Linus Sandgren
Cast
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock
Studio
Summit Entertainment
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
7.898
Tagline
Here's to the fools who dream.
Overview
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Network Sources
Coolidge Corner Theatre
User Review
A very special, memorable film that will be iconic in the years to come.
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Ladies of Leisure
network
Amazon Prime
Drama, Romance
bkrewind
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ID
122047
Year
1930
Runtime
100 min
Director
Frank Capra
TMDB Rating
6.207
Personal Rating
4
Overview
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Friend Review
Barbara Stanwyck got the note "if you can think it, you can make the audience know it" from Frank Capra and never looked back. She is stunning in this film; such breathtaking maturity for a very young performer. Capra films her beautifully and you can tell how his work in silents influenced some choices here. The pacing of the editing goes crazy. Despite Ralph Graves being one of the most annoying love interests I have ever seen in my life, this is a must-see for any Stanwyck fanatics. AND it's public domain now, so you have no excuse. Get into it: archive.org/details/ladies-of-leisure_1930PS: here's my video about Stanwyck for more context about the film/her career www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMtLXA-E8Q
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Land and Freedom
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War, Drama, History
—
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ID
38884
Year
1995
Runtime
109 min
Director
Ken Loach
Writer
Jim Allen
Cinematographer
Barry Ackroyd
Cast
Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Frédéric Pierrot, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy
Studio
Parallax Pictures
Country
GB
Language
en
TMDB Rating
7.333
Overview
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
User Review
“David” (Ian Hart) is stuck in Liverpool in the late 1930s with little by way of prospects, so he decides to go and fight for the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. He readily makes f…
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Last Summer
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—
Drama
bkrewind
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ID
38096
Year
1969
Runtime
95 min
Director
Frank Perry
TMDB Rating
6.104
Personal Rating
4
Overview
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Friend Review
This film was impossible to find for many years and I have to imagine that’s why it’s not regularly programmed or cited as one of the most incisive, disturbing coming-of-age stories of the 1960s. Truly haunting and one the best discoveries for me so far this year. Watch it for free here: archive.org/details/last-summer-69More on Catherine Burns's heartbreaking performance here: youtu.be/W7rF2J1YfiE?si=kuRG9FGyH-BEaL6H
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Last Year at Marienbad
watchlist
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Romance
—
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ID
4024
Original Title
L'Année dernière à Marienbad
Year
1961
Runtime
95 min
Director
Alain Resnais
Writer
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cinematographer
Sacha Vierny
Cast
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville
Studio
Cineriz
Country
FR
Language
fr
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
7.43
Tagline
Extraordinary! Hypnotic! Beautiful! Masterful!
Overview
At a weekend gathering, a man tells a woman that they had spent time there together a year prior. But, the woman has no recollection whatsoever and is convinced that he is simply fabricating the encounter. The more he speaks about their activities the previous year however, the more compelling he becomes. The question remains however – did they meet previously or not?
User Review
There's something almost ethereal about this film. Set amidst the palatial splendour of a luxury hotel, a group of unnamed residents are gathered for a sophisticated weekend. There's an instant chemis…
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Review (rt)
Brendan Gill · The New Yorker — "It flows past one’s eyes with the suavity and never-to-be-questioned illogic of a dream, and indeed it may be that we are intended to perceive that its story is a sort of dream within a dream."
Review (rt)
Richard Brody · The New Yorker — "The story's obscurity turns out to result from its protagonists' own efforts to deny or blur their painful past."
Review (rt)
Adam Mars-Jones · Independent (UK) — "The visual moments that remain in the mind are without exception locked into place by the intensity of the score."
Late Spring
list
Max, Criterion Channel, Plex, Amazon Prime
Drama
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Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
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Letty Lynton
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Drama
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ID
162064
Year
1932
Runtime
84 min
Director
Clarence Brown
TMDB Rating
7.2
Personal Rating
4
Overview
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.'s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
Friend Review
Did Letty Lynton live up to the legend? I think so!! I left the theater obsessed with Clarence Brown’s direction. His work in the late 1920s/early 30s is generally underrated and this features plenty of new examples of the same super clever camera movement that you see in other films of his like The Flesh and the Devil, for example.But of course, this for me was all about Joan and thinking about what this film adds to our understanding of her. In virtually every biography or study of Joan Crawford, Letty Lynton is mentioned primarily in the context of the dress and the lawsuit, which makes sense given this film's inaccessibility. But one consequence of this, in my opinion, is that we have probably underestimated the degree to which this role shaped her persona in the 1930s. Her performance is good, and even exposed new facets of her skill we don’t commonly see. For instance, there’s one scene in particular where hisses out a line with a viciousness I don’t think I’d really seen from her before. But what interested me reading reviews of this film is the prevailing sense critics had that they were observing a metamorphosis in action, that it marked her “coming of age as an actress." I wrote all about it and the film's controversial history in my latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOENhQIrXw
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Leviathan
watchlist
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Crime
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ID
265180
Original Title
Левиафан
Year
2014
Runtime
141 min
Director
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer
Oleg Negin
Cinematographer
Mikhail Krichman
Cast
Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova
Studio
Non-Stop Productions
Country
RU
Language
ru
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.36
Overview
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
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Review (nyt)
Manohla Dargis · The New York Times — "The film, based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s book and directed by Ron Howard, finds a group of men against one very angry whale and the ocean."
Review (rt)
Janet Maslin · New York Times — "The latter half of the film is one long feeding frenzy, guided by a familiar horror-film principle: survival of the best-looking."
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
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Review (rt)
Ty Burr · Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) — "And Life Goes On is observant of the human dilemma in all its calamity and comedy."
Review (rt)
Jonathan Rosenbaum · Chicago Reader — "The film’s exquisite sense of reality is of course a construction; it’s really nothing more than a profound sense of material presence..."
Lisa Frankenstein
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror, Comedy, Romance
Pop Detective
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ID
993784
Year
2024
Runtime
102 min
Director
Zelda Williams
TMDB Rating
6.368
Overview
In 1989, a misunderstood teenager has a high school crush — who just happens to be a handsome corpse! After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness…and a few missing body parts along the way.
Friend Review
Weirdly mean-spirited for a campy teenage revenge flick. Also Lisa is a legit psychopath, which isn't as endearing as the movie seems to think it is. Too bad because there are some really fun ideas and aesthetics here. In the end, they forgot to add the heart.
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Liz & Dick
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Drama, TV Movie, Romance
bkrewind
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ID
130358
Year
2012
Runtime
88 min
Director
Lloyd Kramer
TMDB Rating
3.7
Personal Rating
1.5
Overview
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
Friend Review
I wish I could come here and say that, in hindsight, critics clearly missed all the positive things Liz and Dick had to offer. But unfortunately, even wearing my most generous critical goggles, I cannot resuscitate the reputation of this film. It is as bad as people feared, or maybe, hoped it would be.More on Liz and Dick here: youtu.be/Uuinujlh6ew?si=VxR_eavV8S27U31V
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Maddie's Secret
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Comedy
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ID
1517868
Year
2026
Runtime
98 min
Director
John Early
TMDB Rating
8
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
Maddie is a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company. While her life seems picturesque — complete with an adoring husband, ride-or-die best friend and a cupboard full of woman-owned ethically-sourced chili crisp to boot — mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past.
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A few years ago, when Todd Haynes’ May December was nominated in the comedy category at the Golden Globes and everyone was enraged, I argued that the film was melodrama and that, yes, melodrama could be funny. This did not go over well. But recently, finally, John Early proved me right.Early’s debut film, Maddie’s Secret, which he wrote, directed, and starred in, promised belly busting laughs but instead delivered unexpected tears. Early is indeed a comedian and in this film he is serving full drag and saccharine drawl as a woman named Maddie, a dishwasher turned social media chef whose constant proximity to food and narcissistic mother trigger a years-dormant bulimia. Maddie’s status as a social media personality, her blonde hair and cheery affect, make her ripe for parody. But Early is not playing that game. Rather, he prostrates himself at the mantle of women’s media, brows highest of high and lowest of low, to explore the woman’s body as a site of politics, disclosure, and contradiction. In his seminal work on melodrama, Peter Brooks writes that the form “comes into being in a world where the traditional imperative of truth and ethics have been violently thrown into question.” In the films of Douglas Sirk, it was racial segregation and female immanence. In May December, it was the slow and damning conflation of prestige television and tabloid true crime. In Maddie’s Secret, Early takes this social angle even further by directly referencing trashy “problem of the day” soaps. The problem here is as “today” as can be: the hyper-mediation of women’s bodies in the age of social media. An era of internet that has been so commodified that even something as simple and vital as food has become its own new bastardised, multimillion dollar religion. Melodrama requires a deft and subtle use of satire. While Early plays a woman, the target of his scorn is not us, but an online world that force feeds contradictory messages of restriction and excess. An internet where salacious ASMR mukbangs somehow coexist with and complement ads for GLP-1s and weight loss peptides. Maddie’s body plays host to these contradictions. She uses it to exact a skilled precision that makes her both a stellar chef and enticing social media presence, and also to wantonly purge whatever enters it. Early, by inhabiting this body so thoroughly in his portrayal of Maddie, is not poking fun at it, but searching for that tragic kernel of truth which will have every woman in the theatre laughing in spite of themselves. Full review on Polyester
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Manodrome
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Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Pop Detective
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ID
843942
Year
2023
Runtime
96 min
Director
John Trengove
TMDB Rating
5.071
Overview
Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.
Friend Review
Meandering and ultimately pointless with a side of violent homophobia. Filmmakers should just stop trying to explore the "manosphere" if all they can think to do is center yet another broken abusive man on the big screen. How about daring to give us an alternative? How about showing us men breaking free from patriarchal constraints? Too much to ask for, I guess.
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Married to the Mob
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Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Plex, YouTube
Comedy, Crime, Romance
Maia
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ID
2321
Year
1988
Runtime
104 min
Director
Jonathan Demme
TMDB Rating
5.977
Personal Rating
5
Overview
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
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I fear this is my new favourite movie....
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Martin
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Horror, Drama
Hbomberguy
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ID
26517
Year
1978
Runtime
95 min
Director
George A. Romero
TMDB Rating
6.773
Overview
A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.
Friend Review
Really uniquely shocking film. The effects and story make the violence absolutely panic inducing to me. Maybe some of the subject matter cuts close to home but I had a legit panic attack watching this film in 2013 and never really stopped thinking about it. I'll feel bad writing anything more about it because I don't know if I want to encourage people to actually watch it, but it's gotta be a really well made film to get such raw disgust and horror out of me. I should watch it again but I still avoid it. It's kind of cool having a film that really scares me to think about. I'll probably watch it again soon and wonder why I got so worked up about it! I think I'd prefer it that way honestly. I'll give it a proper review then instead.
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Megalopolis
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Plex
Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy
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ID
592831
Year
2024
Runtime
138 min
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
TMDB Rating
5.183
Personal Rating
4
Overview
In a futuristic New York known as New Rome, visionary architect Cesar Catilina dreams of building "Megalopolis," a utopian city that redefines society’s limits. Opposing him is the corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who clings to power and profit. Between them stands Julia, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar forces her to choose between loyalty, ambition, and the fate of humanity.
Friend Review
Attended the New Years Day screening at Alamo...what a treat to see it again after MegaDoc. There's no one doing it like Francis—which to be clear is a good and a bad thing. You don't really get the sense from our current crop of prominent filmmakers that even if they had 120 mill to make whatever they wanted, that they'd make something so unabashedly unhinged and ponderous. He's a big brain director but a mediocre thinker, which has never been more apparent, makes this hard to stomach at times, and leads to a lot of unintended laughs. Still, I think its reputation as a Bad Movie encourages more derision than it probably deserves. At the very least, it should be studied and viewed as a dramatization of Coppola's ego. Through that lens it's endlessly fascinating...a self-described solipsist engineering a happy ending for a benevolent renegade who makes his own rules and just happens to be right about everything in spite of what everyone else says. Coppola absolutely achieved what he set out to do with Megalopolis, in that we are asking questions and having conversations, only they aren't about The Future...they're about him, and frankly, that's enough for me.
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
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A. O. Scott · The New York Times — "Another marvel from Satoshi Kon, whose first two films, "Perfect Blue" and "Millennium Actress," have already pushed Japanese feature-length animation toward greater realism and wilder fantasy. Loosely based on "3 Godfathe…"
Mischief
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Comedy, Romance
Pop Detective
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ID
14750
Year
1985
Runtime
93 min
Director
Mel Damski
TMDB Rating
6.645
Overview
1956: The shy Jonathan's luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of high school. Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan a few lessons. Gene himself would rather just be with one girl: his girlfriend Bunny. But since his father is poor, her parents don't accept him.
Friend Review
This is a movie about how super cool and fun it is for young men to compete over, harass, and assault women. And it’s all good because those women totally “like it.” Don't worry, sexual assault is basically just a "harmless" part of growing up as a very normal and not criminal boy learning how to be a man. I could probably use a different clip from this movie in every Pop Culture Detective video essay I make from now on.
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Moana
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Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
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ID
1108427
Year
2026
Runtime
115 min
Director
Thomas Kail
Writer
Jared Bush
Cinematographer
Óscar Faura
Cast
Catherine Lagaʻaia, Dwayne Johnson, John Tui, Frankie Adams, Rena Owen
Studio
Walt Disney Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
4.861
Personal Rating
4
Tagline
The ocean chose her for a reason.
Overview
Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.
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Moonlight
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Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Drama
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ID
376867
Year
2016
Director
Barry Jenkins
TMDB Rating
7.357
Personal Rating
4
Overview
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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Mother Mary
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Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Music, Drama, Thriller
Thomas Flight
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ID
1102883
Year
2026
Runtime
112 min
Director
David Lowery
TMDB Rating
5.636
Personal Rating
3
Overview
Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.
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Ethereal gothic pop-horror about something haunted that lies underneath the veneration of celebrity, and the way that artistic collaboration can both wound and heal? Sign me up! I've enjoyed much of Lowery's work, most notably Ghost Story and The Green Knight, so a strange sort of blend of those two infused with the essence of Phantom Thread and Persona about a pop star is exactly the kind of thing I should immediately fall in love with. Unfortunately something about this never really clicked. What it ended up doing best for me was to illustrate that it takes more than a collection of compelling concepts to make an actually compelling film. There are very many ideas, images, pieces of set design, costume design, editing, and performance (including the dance sans-music!) that I found interesting and engaging, but I could never get my bearings within the story, figure out how relate to these characters, or what, exactly, this thing is trying to say. I'm often fine with movies that don't quite check those boxes (like is the case with more than one David Lynch film and not every movie needs to "say" something) but this moves forward in a strange lurching way that kept me from fully getting swept up in just the vibe alone and it left me feeling like I was missing something. The dialogue is probably my biggest complaint. There's a lot of overladen, poetic language that doesn't quite to amount to much? I'm paraphrasing here but lines like: "I'm stubborn you know." "Yes you are." "I mean I don't change easily." Just left me a little baffled. One character just says and then re-states the same thing, and the other just agrees? Many such cases. The characters mostly seem to be talking *at* each other. We learn very little about who these people are or what's going on with them besides what they just... tell us. I'm fine with a chamber piece (see Persona), but there's ways of showing and revealing things about the characters through the dialogue that don't involve them just telling us their personality traits. I'm also all for flowery dialogue, where the words are mostly there for the lush texture of their own sound, but this didn't feel like that. It felt like it a hand trying to scratch an itch on my back that it never found. Much more effective when the dialogue falls away and it shifts into an entirely different register. Still felt worth the time investment, and I'd happily try this again another time to see if it strikes me differently, but mostly I wanted to like this much more than I did. Read the expanded review in my newsletter, Seeing Through Film.
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Nashville
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Drama, Comedy, Music
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ID
3121
Year
1975
Runtime
160 min
Director
Robert Altman
Writer
Joan Tewkesbury
Cinematographer
Paul Lohmann
Cast
David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.247
Personal Rating
5
Tagline
The damndest thing you ever saw.
Overview
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
Friend Review
Robert Altman told The New York Times that Nashville was “a metaphor for my personal view of our society…I wanted to do Nashville to study our myths and our heroes and our hypocrisy.” He continued, “The movie is not just a country-music statement. It’s a statement about my stupidity, your stupidity, everybody’s stupidity…There is a decadence in America. I see it all around me.”I wrote about why Nashville is the best American film: awardswatch.com/nashville-at-50-robert-altmans-masterpiece-remains-as-timeless-and-prescient-as-ever/
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New York, New York
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Romance, Drama, Music
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ID
12637
Year
1977
Runtime
163 min
Director
Martin Scorsese
Writer
Mardik Martin
Cinematographer
László Kovács
Cast
Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus, Mary Kay Place
Studio
United Artists
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
6.538
Tagline
The war was over and the world was falling in love again.
Overview
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
User Review
Much is made of whether or not this is one of Martin Scorsese’s weaker efforts but I think that’s to appraise the wrong talent here. The star of the whole thing is the charismatic chanteuse “Francine”…
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Next of Kin
network
Criterion Channel
Drama
Daniel Simpson
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ID
108241
Year
1984
Runtime
70 min
Director
Atom Egoyan
TMDB Rating
5.8
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah.
Friend Review
Given how much I loved The Sweet Hereafter, it's probably worth it to dive back into Atom Egoyan's back catalogue and work my way up to other major films like Exotica. Next of Kin was Egoyan's first feature and is quite the start. The film concerns Peter, a young man who still lives with his parents (back when that was more abnormal and not an economic necessity) who attends a taped family therapy session. He discovers his therapist's tapes for another family, one of Armenian immigrants who had to give up their son for adoption when they arrived at Canada. Stricken by this family, Peter decides to visit them, posing as their long lost son, where he is accepted with open arms. It's the kind of debut film that announces a lot of the director's pet themes: family drama, lies, performance that becomes reality. It's an interesting exercise in subtext, narrative, and form. Particularly compelling is how Egoyan's camera goes from being so cold and disconnected in the first section before Peter begins performing the lie, and the cinematography becomes so much more intimate, close-up and handheld to the point it starts to resemble home movies. It's welcoming, even cozy, but you're also constantly gnawed by the uneasy knowledge of Peter's lie. And while that would seemingly be building to "the liar revealed", the most tiresome trope in all of cinema, that uh, that doesn't happen. Really strong start to a very rich film career.
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
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The artistic choices a director makes while working on a film often contribute much to the success or failure of the finished project. When these decisions aptly suit the nature of the production, the…
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Review (nyt)
Manohla Dargis · The New York Times — "This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida."
Review (rt)
Simran Hans · Sight & Sound — "Ross simply shows how each boy sees the world, drawing attention to where their gaze drifts. He prioritises their individual humanity, by illustrating their inner lives."
Review (rt)
Adam Nayman · Toronto Star — "One of the biggest conceptual swings of recent years, but never once feels uncertain or opportunistic, or even show-offy in an Oscar-baiting manner. It’s ingenious and also empathetic: a rare mix worthy of deconstruction and celebration."
Review (rt)
Wenlei Ma · The Nightly (AU) — "By putting you in the literal point-of-view of its characters, the film becomes an empathy machine."
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
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Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Music
Hbomberguy
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ID
1154538
Year
2026
Runtime
100 min
Director
Matt Johnson
Writer
Matt Johnson
Cinematographer
Jared Raab
Cast
Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Ben Petrie, Ethan Eng, Michael Scott
Studio
Crave
Country
CA
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.531
Personal Rating
5
Tagline
One... last... plan.
Overview
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
Friend Review
Watching filmmakers approach the craft with such an obvious sense of playfulness is so fun to watch. It’s not just a playful film but one that is playfully crafted. A joy start to finish. Amen.
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Ok, so perhaps I just wasn't in the mood but this just didn't make me laugh. It's nothing whatsoever to do with the band "Nirvana" - just in case you were wondering. Instead it follows two friends who…
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Jeannette Catsoulis · The New York Times — "Two longtime friends time-travel back to 2008 to pursue their performing dreams in this likably daft comedy."
Review (rt)
Scott Tobias · The Reveal — "Shambling and sweet, loaded with hilarious standalone bits that are held together by the duo’s warm camaraderie and intimate connection to the city of Toronto."
Review (rt)
Rob Silverman Ascher · Chicago Reader — "Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is pure comedy and jaw-dropping filmmaking that must be seen to be believed."
No Other Choice
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Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Thomas Flight
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ID
639988
Year
2025
Runtime
139 min
Director
Park Chan-wook
TMDB Rating
7.51
Overview
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
Friend Review
Funnier than I expected and as usual a total tour-de-force in inventive camerawork.
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Nosferatu
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror, Fantasy
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ID
426063
Year
2024
Runtime
133 min
Director
Robert Eggers
TMDB Rating
6.714
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Friend Review
Eggers’s commitment to genre conventions and slavish devotion to detail, history, and lore amounts to an absorbing horror film, but leaves comparatively little space for the kinds of insights that made Murnau and Herzog’s work so fascinating. More of my thoughts here:youtu.be/ioC7WGmxh30
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Nostalgia for the Light
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Amazon Prime, Apple TV
Documentary
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ID
72721
Original Title
Nostalgia de la luz
Year
2010
Runtime
93 min
Director
Patricio Guzmán
Writer
Patricio Guzmán
Cinematographer
Katell Djian
Cast
Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel, Victor Gonzalez
Studio
Blinker Filmproduktion
Country
CL
Language
es
TMDB Rating
7.4
Tagline
Astronomers and Archaeologists - Two sides of the same coin
Overview
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
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Obsession
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror, Thriller
Hbomberguy
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ID
1339713
Year
2026
Runtime
109 min
Director
Curry Barker
TMDB Rating
8.28
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Friend Review
I liked it a lot. I love when a movie actually explores the ethical implications of its premise. Like instead of just doing Monkey's Paw stuff and going 'be careful what you wish for lol,' it's digging into the horrible thing you're doing to someone when you make a wish that overwrites their sentience.I kind of wish it went more in that direction, actually. Like a lot of the movie is Nikki doing increasingly insane and psychotic things, which is engaging in its own way, but it could have been more interesting by slowing down and drilling harder into the ethics and metaphysics of what's happening. Then again, the pace was fast. You Nolan-teleport from important scene to important scene, without getting to catch a breath or unpack anything, just getting kicked in the head over and over. I was genuinely a bit out of breath towards the end. I miss when movies had scenes and didn't just cut ahead instantly all the time but that's just me.Maybe the fact I was left wanting certain things is a testament to its good choices, and actually getting them would ruin the movie. You've gotta be careful what you wish for, after all.There's also a bit of an over-reliance on musical cues and loud sounds to signal scares. "Pop song starts to fade in, then harshly cuts out" happens so often you start being able to predict it, and the very loud BWAAHHH sound effects that play when you're supposed to be jumpscared get overbearing and sometimes feel like they're playing at random a few seconds after the scary thing actually happened. The score was extremely anxious I was checking my phone, and that itself got a bit distracting.It needed a bit less "I'm crazy bappa booey bappa booey walking backwards like a spider now, eat this cat" type stuff. Like if the movie is supposed to be about Bear's choices, I feel like the wish should have come mostly true and more authentically led to its consequences, and not immediately turned his crush into a horror movie villain. It sort of gets in the way of the more interesting aspects of the story that Nikki starts peeing and vomiting on everything and taping the doors shut pretty quickly.Also why the hell does Ian come to Bear's house to tell him the willow worked? He was there! He saw it happen too! I'm 10000% sure they added the money appearing in that scene in the edit, after writing it that nothing visibly happens and Bear just leaves. Adding the money was hilarious, but it made Ian's future appearance to announce he got the money he wished for make no sense.e: According to a comment they shot the money appearing practically, so they genuinely just wrote that Ian comes to Bear's place to tell him a thing he saw happened happened???Okay that's enough nitpicking. Good stuff. Extremely excited to see the next thing Barker makes.
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On Broadway
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Documentary
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
712591
Year
2019
Runtime
84 min
Director
Oren Jacoby
TMDB Rating
8.7
Overview
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Friend Review
Opened on Friday, September 3, and closed on Thursday, September 9.
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Once Upon a Time in America
watchlist
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Crime
—
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ID
311
Year
1984
Runtime
229 min
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Leonardo Benvenuti
Cinematographer
Tonino Delli Colli
Cast
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young
Studio
Embassy International Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
8.379
Tagline
Crime, passion and lust for power.
Overview
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
User Review
Stereotypical Sergio Leone film with endless waitings and sight crossings.
One of the performances that made Robert de Niro de actor he is and an interesting way of telling a story and the evolution of America during the years of the alcohol prohibition.
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Review (rt)
Pauline Kael · The New Yorker — "It isn’t just the echoing moments that keep you absorbed. It’s those reverberant dreamland settings and Leone’s majestic, billowing sense of film movement; the images seem to come at you in waves of feeling."
Review (rt)
Paul Attanasio · Washington Post — "The movie's four hours long, but no one had the time to write a single real character."
Review (rt)
Gary Arnold · Washington Post — "This would-be epic schlep, dragging almost 50 years of chronology over a sluggish 140 minutes, is far too slight of text and ponderous of presentation to sustain more than nodding-off dramatic interest."
Once Upon a Time in the West
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Western
Martin Scorsese
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ID
335
Original Title
C'era una volta il West
Year
1968
Runtime
166 min
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Donati
Cinematographer
Tonino Delli Colli
Cast
Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Country
IT
Language
it
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
8.271
Tagline
There were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her —and one to kill her.
Overview
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Network Sources
Martin Scorsese
User Review
All what you can expect from a western.
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One Battle After Another
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Thriller, Crime, Comedy
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—
ID
1054867
Year
2025
Director
Paul Thomas Anderson
TMDB Rating
7.347
Overview
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
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Parasite
network
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Thriller, Drama
Thomas Flight, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Daniel Simpson
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ID
496243
Original Title
기생충
Year
2019
Runtime
133 min
Director
Bong Joon Ho
Writer
Bong Joon Ho
Cinematographer
Hong Kyung-pyo
Cast
Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam
Studio
Barunson E&A
Country
KR
Language
ko
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
8.492
Personal Rating
4
Tagline
Act like you own the place.
Overview
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Network Sources
Thomas Flight, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Daniel Simpson
User Review
One of the funniest and most disturbing films I've ever seen. Probably some of the best cinematography ever. 10/10
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Pather Panchali
watchlist
Apple TV, Max, Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Drama, History
—
—
ID
5801
Original Title
পথের পাঁচালী
Year
1955
Runtime
125 min
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Satyajit Ray
Cinematographer
Subrata Mitra
Cast
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Chunibala Devi, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Banerjee
Studio
Government of West Bengal
Country
IN
Language
bn
TMDB Rating
7.799
Overview
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.
User Review
Part one of Satyajit Ray's trilogy introduces us to the poverty stricken family of the young "Apu" (Subir Banerjee). His family once had a guava orchard, but his poet and philosopher father "Harihar" …
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Review (rt)
Frank Morriss · Globe and Mail — "Everything about Pather Panchali... points to the beautiful life of the human spirit."
Review (rt)
Jonas Mekas · Village Voice — "It is most simple, most down to earth, and from the very heart. Specifically it is about India, but actually it is about everybody. The poetry of the film transcends its locality and speaks to us all."
Review (rt)
Shubhra Gupta · The Indian Express — "Satyajit Ray put India on the world map with this felt portrait of life in a Bengal village..."
Perceval
watchlist
—
Drama, Romance, History
—
—
ID
75733
Original Title
Perceval le Gallois
Year
1978
Runtime
140 min
Director
Éric Rohmer
Cinematographer
Néstor Almendros
Cast
Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger, Catherine Schroeder, Francisco Orozco
Studio
Gaumont
Country
FR
Language
fr
TMDB Rating
7.146
Tagline
A Film by Eric Rohmer
Overview
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.
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Petite Maman
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Fantasy
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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time – 2022
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.
User Review
One might call this a Sci-Fi because it uses time-travel as a plot device, but it's not about that at all. The real themes are truth, and the complex relationship between mother and daughter over three generations. This is a heart-warming, creative story.
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Review (nyt)
Manohla Dargis · The New York Times — "The French director Céline Sciamma’s enchanting new movie centers on a young girl who discovers a mysterious friend in a storybook forest."
Pink Flamingos
list
—
Comedy, Crime
—
Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time – 2022
ID
692
Year
1972
Runtime
93 min
Director
John Waters
Writer
John Waters
Cinematographer
John Waters
Cast
Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills
Studio
Dreamland
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NC-17
TMDB Rating
6.1
Tagline
An exercise in poor taste.
Overview
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
User Review
The most filthiest films of all time even before South Park came into this world’s knowledge!!!
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Predator: Badlands
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Pop Detective
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ID
1242898
Year
2025
Runtime
107 min
Director
Dan Trachtenberg
TMDB Rating
7.815
Overview
Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
Friend Review
At its best when it's having fun and leaning into the silly side of science friction like Elle Fanning's autonomous legs!!I was a bit annoyed that Hollywood writers continue to get the "alpha wolf" myth wrong, albeit in a slightly different way than usual here. It's still wrong. The dialog in that "protector wolf" scene feels like it's lifted from a manosphere-adjacent podcast. There is no such thing as an alpha male wolf. Pack leaders are just parents raising their offspring. A biologist-class android would know that, but I guess the reality wouldn't make a good metaphor in this particular story. I recently made a whole video essay on the alpha male myth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvpadX5mwM
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Project Hail Mary
network
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Science Fiction, Adventure
Daniel Simpson
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ID
687163
Year
2026
Runtime
157 min
Director
Phil Lord
TMDB Rating
8.675
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
Friend Review
Months late to the party but I have finally caught up with Project Hail Mary and I am not the least bit surprised the film has proven such an effective crowd pleaser. The film is a very agreeable watch, carefully balancing the inherent heaviness and clear acknowledgement of the enormous world ending stakes at hand with a light touch that still makes for a fun watch. Crucial here is Ryan Gosling, who carries the film entirely on his shoulders. There are Gosling performances I like better but this may well be the clearest expression of his role as one of our leading movie stars, effortlessly likable and capable of carrying a $100 million blockbuster. More than just carry, but to be the primary attraction, more so than the spectacle or the set-pieces. Of course, understanding why audiences love something is not the same as loving it myself. So what did I think of Project Hail Mary? Well, I certainly liked it. It's engaging, and the central friendship between Gosling and the alien rock-creature is especially affecting. That said my enthusiasm has a ceiling. Part of that is a matter of taste. I like Miller and Lord's sensibility well-enough but their use of pop-culture infused humour can be a crutch and I certainly felt that creeping in hear. Part of it is some issues with the film's structure. The film is paced pretty well with a good sense of when to accelerate and one to slow down, but I'm not convinced the flashbacks or Gosling's initial amnesia are implemented all that effectively. But at it's simplest level, for all Project Hail Mary's strengths, it never wowed me. There aren't really any exceptional set-pieces or moments of wonderment, or elements of the film's formalism to really knock my socks off. Some pretty images, some exciting scenes, but nothing to really stick with me, and that feeling has only grown stronger in the days since my viewing. It's a film that goes down very easily and I'm certainly happy to see a non-franchise blockbuster rooted more in character and story than full-on action find such success, but I can't say it's a new favourite for myself.
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Rear Window
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Thriller, Mystery, Drama
bkrewind
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ID
567
Year
1954
Runtime
113 min
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Michael Hayes
Cinematographer
Robert Burks
Cast
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Studio
Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
8.337
Personal Rating
5
Tagline
It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.
Overview
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Friend Review
Every time I watch this I am like "oh right this is a perfect film"I wrote a bit about Hitchcock here: youtu.be/EjSde5Su-14?si=3REUilfi8hL3WuEw
Network Sources
bkrewind
User Review
I love a good plot twist as much as next person but maybe it was better back then.
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Return of the Jedi
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
Daniel Simpson
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ID
1892
Year
1983
Runtime
132 min
Director
Richard Marquand
TMDB Rating
7.91
Personal Rating
3
Overview
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.
Friend Review
Much as it's easy for nerds to wax nostalgic about the glories of the original Star Wars trilogy there's also always been a fly in the ointment and its name is Return of the Jedi. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like about this movie. Hell, as a young child, it might well have been my favourite. It has the most lightsaber action, the biggest space battle, and all sorts of weird looking creatures, from the grotesque monsters of Jabba's palace to the adorable charm of the Ewoks. How could any child resist? Plus it's a lot faster paced and less emotionally challenging than The Empire Strikes Back. What's not to love? Well, as an adult, a lot. I'm not even talking about how lame the Ewoks are when you're older than 12 or how uninspired a new Death Star is as a plot point, just in terms of structure and intrigue, Jedi is a major step down. Take Jabba's Palace. Lots of cool creatures here, especially the big man himself, but this material takes up the entirety of the first act and feels like a totally separate movie to the plotline with the Empire. The only thing of consequence here is that the Rebels rescue Han. You can't even say the scene introduces Luke as a Jedi since his plan is so stupidly convoluted and involves immediately being captured.Once that's resolved the movie can get properly started at the 45 minute mark. The Empire is building a new Death Star and the Rebels have to blow it up. Hardly the most unique idea, and that creative complacency is also reflected on-screen, the Empire no longer feeling like an urgent threat but just a bloated institution waiting around for the plot to happen. It's also frustrating that after finally getting Han, Leia and Luke all together again, two-thirds of the party barely feel like themselves. Ford gets a couple of amusing moments but for the most part Han and Leia are just hanging around on Endor, happy to be there. Leia used to be an energized leader with a barbed tongue and no tolerance for bullshit. Now she's just nice. I used to think a lot of these shortcomings were redeemed by all the scenes between Luke, Vader and The Emperor, but on rewatch these were pretty lackluster too. They certainly have more care and interest than the other threads of the climax and the tail end of the duel where Luke overpowers Vader is pretty great, but the bulk of the drama is centered on Luke turning to the Dark Side for vaguely defined reasons. I'm not totally sure what the tensions of those scenes is supposed to be.The film is also just cinematically less interesting. The visual style is clearly aspiring for Empire's pristine look, even replicating whole shots, but it's rarely anywhere near as effective, while other bits are downright sloppy, like cutting to Han safely in the grass a few feet away from an explosion that would have leveled a stadium. Add in the disappointment that Yoda's pleas that Luke return to complete his training result in "Ah never mind your training is all done but also you're not actually truly a for real Jedi Knight until you confront Darth Vader." Starting to feel like this shit is being made up on the spot and everyone's getting a bit tired. "Oh also Leia is your sister now. Don't worry about it." A lot of future Star Wars problems are starting to rear their head here. Think Rey Palpatine is a stupid retcon? I'm not sure Leia Skywalker is much better, especially since it serves no purpose in Jedi beyond mending any hurt feelings about the love triangle. Think the prequels rely too much on boring shot/reverse-shot conversations? Here's Ghost Obi-Wan here to sit on a log less Sir Alec have to stand for his scene. Tonally jarring to go from Jar Jar comedy to Darth Maul stabbing Qui-Gon to death? Here's Vader watching his son be tortured contrasted by teddy bears beating up the bad guys. Hell, think the Disney era is creatively bankrupt? Jedi brings back a Death Star, brings us back to Tatooine, and even begins following C-3P0 and R2D2 to better replicate the original film. So much of the ruination of Star Wars is here clear as day.And yet, despite all my complaints, I can't totally hate on this movie. Maybe there's simply too much buried nostalgia within me, or maybe the good stuff here is legitimately really good. From the extremely minor like Salacious Crumb to the major like Darth Vader's death scene, which still moves me, there's a lot to enjoy. But there's also a lot of flaws, and coming off rewatches which reaffirmed the greatness of movies one and two (or Episodes IV and V if you prefer) I can't deny a palpable disappoint shadowed a lot of my viewing.
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Road House
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Action, Thriller
Daniel Simpson
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ID
10135
Year
1989
Runtime
114 min
Director
Rowdy Herrington
TMDB Rating
6.766
Personal Rating
3
Overview
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable – busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot spot. But Dalton's romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay puts him on the bad side of cutthroat local big shot Brad Wesley.
Friend Review
So this is the infamous Road House. I tend to be pretty skeptical of 80s movies that gain a pop culture reputation of being "such a classic bro" but I must say, this is a genuinely strange movie. Patrick Swayze plays a tough guy with a sensitive side who gets hired as a bouncer to clean up a rough bar and help turn it into a nice place. Swayze takes the job to heart and really starts to turn things around but in doing so incites the wrath of a local crime lord played by Ben Gazzara, who runs the town with an iron fist. The film shifts between a low-stakes hangout movie with some bare-knuckle punching to a far more dire action epic of murder and revenge until by the end it starts to resemble a cross between the first two Rambo movies. That Swayze's tragic backstory involves accidentally killing a man by ripping his throat out is a good embodiment of the film's tone and general oddness, extremely macho and extremely saccharine while also being fundamentally silly.I can't say Road House is a new favourite but I do see why people like it. It's weird, it's fun, and it's also pretty well-made. Rowdy Herrington did not need to enlist ace cinematographer Dean Cundey to shoot the hell out of the movie, he didn't need to fill the supporting cast with greats like Sam Elliott or oddballs like Terry Funk, he certainly didn't need to cast the legendary Ben Gazzara to play the villain. Swayze meanwhile, is perfectly suited to the lead role and his movie stardom at this time does a lot to legitimize the film. The fights are also good fun. Camp entertainment usually only goes so far with me and Road House is no exception but I did have myself a good little time.
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Role Models
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy
Daniel Simpson
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ID
15373
Year
2008
Runtime
99 min
Director
David Wain
TMDB Rating
6.484
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.
Friend Review
Role Models is pretty clearly David Wain's attempt to show he can make a normal comedy within the studio system. None of Wet Hot American Summer's escalating absurdity, this is a straightforward comedy about a pair of underachieving man children who learn a lessen over the course of some crass humour and heartfelt character bonding. It's formulaic and inherently less exciting than something like Wet Hot, but more importantly, it's pretty well-executed. Once the two boys Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott are forced to role model for enter the picture the film really finds its groove. The foul-mouthed Ronnie is especially funny. I'm not surprised so many Letterboxd reviews quote "fuck you Mrs. Daisy" because that line delivery is just killer. The emotional core of the film may also be very predictable, but it feels genuine, especially as Rudd starts to jump more to the defense of Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Very enjoyable comedy with a lot of laughs.
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Rose of Nevada
network
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Science Fiction, Mystery, Drama
Thomas Flight
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ID
1399525
Year
2026
Runtime
114 min
Director
Mark Jenkin
TMDB Rating
6.875
Personal Rating
4
Overview
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
Friend Review
A rusty chain unravels, each image clanging against the ship’s metal hull with hypnotic monotony. Early in the film two characters that obviously occupy different geographic space gaze at each other. One looking upward to the left, and the other looking down to the right– their eyes meet through some unknown separation.There is a ship. Something seems very off with the ship. Do not get on the ship. But there is an inevitability to Nick’s departure. He needs the money to fix the roof. Things have already been set in motion. There is a tired helplessness to the ordeal, not just to the drawing of nets, squawking of gulls, or gutting of fish, but to the mysterious return of a lost ship, to the characters fractured movement through time. Townfolk find the story already written for them. They are resigned. It’s best not to speak of these things. Even if we’ve been here before, even if we’ll be here again. There’s a tactile immediacy to Jenkin’s 16MM images. The warm sun cutting across weathered bricks feels like something you could touch. Shot on a Bolex with sound constructed in post. It is a film itself displaced in time. Footsteps might clang a little to loud, overcranked inserts create a stuttering sense of time. A clock ticks with the hollow solitude that recalls an era of filmmaking long ago lost at sea. It has returned mysteriously, a resurrected artifact of cinema’s past, waiting for us.The kind of film that leaves me convinced cinema is alive and well here in 2026.
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Rush Hour
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Drama, Comedy
—
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ID
157065
Original Title
Godzina szczytu
Year
1974
Runtime
81 min
Director
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
Cinematographer
Janusz Pawłowski
Cast
Leszek Herdegen, Jolanta Bohdal, Maria Chwalibóg, Barbara Wrzesińska, Lech Łotocki
Studio
Zespół Filmowy "Panorama"
Country
PL
Language
pl
TMDB Rating
5.5
Overview
The life of engineer Maksymowicz changes dramatically when he accidentally learns that he is terminally ill.
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Rushed
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Drama, Crime
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
828305
Year
2021
Runtime
101 min
Director
Vibeke Muasya
TMDB Rating
6.686
Overview
Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.
Friend Review
Opened on Friday, August 27, and closed on Wednesday, September 1.
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Saboteur
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Thriller
Daniel Simpson
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ID
31997
Year
1942
Runtime
109 min
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
TMDB Rating
6.884
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
Friend Review
Was this Alfred Hitchcock's first truly American movie? On one level: no, obviously not. But also kinda?Full discussion on patreon.com/eyebrowcinema
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Scarlet
list
Amazon Prime, Netflix, YouTube, Plex
Animation, Action, Drama, Science Fiction
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Kermode & Mayo Film of the Week
ID
1406657
Original Title
果てしなきスカーレット
Year
2025
Runtime
112 min
Director
Mamoru Hosoda
Writer
Mamoru Hosoda
Cinematographer
Akiko Saito
Cast
Mana Ashida, Masaki Okada, Yutaka Matsushige, Kotaro Yoshida, Koji Yakusho
Studio
Studio Chizu
Country
JP
Language
ja
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
7.243
Overview
After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not achieve her revenge against her nemesis and reach the "No End Place," she will become "Void" and cease to exist. Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey?
User Review
Based very loosely on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, this follows the perilous adventures of the princess “Scarlet” as she seeks retribution for the assassination of her kingly father by her uncle “Claudius”…
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Scenes from a Marriage
watchlist
Apple TV, Max, Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, YouTube
Drama, Romance
—
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ID
133919
Original Title
Scener ur ett äktenskap
Year
1974
Runtime
169 min
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer
Sven Nykvist
Cast
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjö, Gunnel Lindblom
Studio
Cinematograph AB
Country
SE
Language
sv
TMDB Rating
8.045
Overview
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
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Review (rt)
Geoff Andrew · Time Out — "The film is an uncompromisingly harrowing and honest account of male-female relationships."
Review (rt)
Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times — "One of the truest, most luminous love stories ever made."
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
network
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Documentary
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
662342
Year
2019
Runtime
94 min
Director
Ira Deutchman
TMDB Rating
7
Overview
The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the mid-century theater chain and film distribution company. Rugoff was a difficult (some would say impossible) person but was also the man who kicked art films into the mainstream with outrageous marketing schemes and pure bluster. Rugoff's impact on cinema culture in the United States is inestimable, and his influence on the art film business-from the studio classics divisions to the independent film movement to the rise of the Weinsteins-is undeniable. Yet, mysteriously, Rugoff has become a virtually forgotten figure. The story is told through the eyes of former employee Ira Deutchman, who sets out to find the truth about the man who had such a major impact on his life, and to understand how such an important figure could have disappeared so completely.
Friend Review
Opened on Saturday, August 21, and closed on Wednesday, August 25.
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Shadow of a Doubt
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Thriller, Mystery, Crime
Daniel Simpson
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ID
21734
Year
1943
Runtime
107 min
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
TMDB Rating
7.5
Personal Rating
5
Overview
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
Friend Review
That Shadow of a Doubt was "Hitchcock's favourite of his own movies" is a claim the man himself would walk back later in life. But maybe he shouldn't have...Full discussion at patreon.com/eyebrowcinema
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Sing Sing
network
Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama
Pop Detective
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ID
1155828
Year
2024
Runtime
107 min
Director
Greg Kwedar
TMDB Rating
7.398
Overview
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Friend Review
A beautiful, tender, grounded portrait of men learning and exploring vulnerability through art. Far and away the best film made last year.
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Sirāt
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Thriller
Thomas Flight
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ID
1151272
Year
2025
Runtime
115 min
Director
Oliver Laxe
TMDB Rating
6.9
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.
Friend Review
By the end a woman behind me in the theater was praying out loud for the characters.
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Friend Review
annoying bitches of the world unite
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Song of the Sea
list
Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube
Family, Animation, Fantasy
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*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
110416
Year
2014
Runtime
94 min
Director
Tomm Moore
Writer
Will Collins
Cast
David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan, Lucy O'Connell
Studio
Cartoon Saloon
Country
IE
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
8
Tagline
Let the song of the sea sway your heart...
Overview
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.
User Review
If you ever watched 'The Secret of Kells', you will never think of skipping it. Though, people watch it in the interest of the Oscar connection. From all the nominees it is the clear winner according …
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Sorry, Baby
network
Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Comedy
Pop Detective
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ID
1205515
Year
2025
Runtime
103 min
Director
Eva Victor
TMDB Rating
6.823
Overview
Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.
Friend Review
This movie should probably be required viewing for most straight men. It's ostensibly about a woman surviving a sexual assault, but it's really about the complex emotional impacts and struggles to rediscover self, connection, humor, and belonging after experiencing trauma. To that end, the filmmaker chooses not to show the actual assault itself on-screen. Instead, Agnes tries to tell her supportive best friend what happened while in a state of shock. In this case, "tell don't show" is undeniably the more powerful and emotionally gut-wrenching choice. Too many media makers end-up unintentionally sensationalizing, eroticizing, or objectifying in their insistence on filming acts of sexual violence. Sometimes it's much more impactful not to show a crime being committed. Sexual violence is one of those crimes. As film critic Renata Adler once observed, the medium of film tends to glorify anything within its frame. It takes a skilled and restrained filmmaker to understand that tendency and to make creative choices to counteract the effect. And writer-director Eva Victor proves they're is an incredibly skilled filmmaker.I also appreciate the decision to remove the perpetrator from the story-line after the attack because it means his prospective is immediately de-centered, he is removed from the frame, allowing the focus to rest squarely on Agnes."Sorry, Baby" is devastating, funny, and heartwarming all at once. Easily one of the best films of the year. The fact that it wasn't nominated for any Oscars should prove the irrelevancy of the Academy once and for all.
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Stalker
watchlist
Criterion Channel, Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Science Fiction, Drama
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ID
1398
Original Title
Сталкер
Year
1979
Runtime
162 min
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer
Arkadiy Strugatskiy
Cinematographer
Aleksandr Knyazhinsky
Cast
Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mykola Hrynko, Natalya Abramova
Studio
Mosfilm
Country
SU
Language
ru
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
8.088
Tagline
There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.
Overview
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
User Review
This movie is like an onion, has multiple layers. To understand it, you have to be very careful and pacient. You have to focus on movie and not doing anything else while you watch it, because if you d…
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Star Wars
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Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
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ID
11
Year
1977
Director
George Lucas
TMDB Rating
8.206
Overview
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
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Stolen Kingdom
watchlist
—
Documentary
—
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ID
1038727
Year
2026
Runtime
74 min
Director
Joshua Bailey
Cinematographer
Brandon Pickering
Cast
Patrick Spikes, Dave Ensign, Leonard Kinsey, Matt Sonswa, Gabrielle Russon
Studio
White Lake Productions
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
0
Tagline
Bad things happen at the Happiest Place on Earth.
Overview
A look into the underground community of rule-breakers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and how their actions led to the disappearance of an Audio-Animatronic named Buzzy.
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Stories We Tell
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Documentary
Maia
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ID
128216
Year
2012
Runtime
109 min
Director
Sarah Polley
TMDB Rating
7.103
Personal Rating
5
Overview
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
Friend Review
I don't know if it's because I'm concussed, or grieving loved ones, or just Canadian but I can't stop crying at this movie. The last time I cried this hard at a movie was Women Talking. The entire film I was also lamenting the fact that my mother was born in a house on stilts and slept on a dirt floor with her siblings and doesn't even know her real birthday let alone have all this beautiful footage from her youth that I could one day cherish. And then it was revealed that the footage was staged (not even a reveal, this should be obvious). I love you Sarah Polley I'm going to go read your book about women with concussions now.
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Superman
network
Amazon Prime, Max, YouTube
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
Pop Detective
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ID
1061474
Year
2025
Runtime
130 min
Director
James Gunn
TMDB Rating
7.339
Overview
Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.
Friend Review
Krypto is a very good very bad boy!
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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
network
—
Drama, Music, History
bkrewind
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ID
1387
Year
1987
Runtime
43 min
Director
Todd Haynes
TMDB Rating
7
Personal Rating
5
Overview
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
Friend Review
Saw the restoration at Metrograph (again) and, after editing footage of so many dupes for a month, it truly almost brought tears to my eyes to see such a pristine copy. What a beautiful film, I feel so lucky to have seen it this way, and to hear Todd Haynes talk about it in person. SHOUT OUT to Christine Vachon, who truly gave a "um actually that's not the truth Ellen..." response to someone who called the film a satire. It's not a satire. Anyway, if you want to know more about how the film was made and Haynes's thinking behind it, I made a video that covers virtually everything he discussed in the q&a afterward. Check it out: youtu.be/jFspT993NDg?si=Pe9pS5naV24_bRz7
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Surviving Earth
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—
Drama, Music
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Kermode & Mayo Film of the Week
ID
1383580
Year
2026
Runtime
96 min
Director
Thea Gajic
Writer
Thea Gajic
Cinematographer
Olan Collardy
Cast
Slavko Sobin, Olive Gray, Ann Ogbomo, Arthur McBain, Brian Bogdanovic
Studio
My Accomplice
Country
GB
Language
en
TMDB Rating
0
Overview
Years after fleeing military conscription during the Yugoslav conflict, Vlad is building a community in Bristol, working as a drugs counsellor and pursuing success with his riotous Balkan band. But integration isn’t as easy as he hoped, and the trauma of his past life is difficult to repress. Can he overcome his demons and create a new life for those he loves the most?
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Suspicion
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Daniel Simpson
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ID
11462
Year
1941
Runtime
99 min
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
TMDB Rating
7.1
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Friend Review
Hitchcock's superior marriage comedy.Full discussion at patreon.com/eyebrowcinema
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Tally Brown, New York
network
Criterion Channel
Documentary
Maia
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ID
344096
Year
1979
Runtime
97 min
Director
Rosa von Praunheim
TMDB Rating
7.5
Personal Rating
5
Overview
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in New York City and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s. In this documentary, Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, and Divine. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and concludes with “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide.” The film captures not only Tally Brown’s career but also a particular New York milieu in the 1970s.
Friend Review
New York in the 70s was like a raw wound, made great by its desperation. This documentary is a time capsule of the artists we lost when the wound healed over. Obsessed with miss Tally and her gay lovers.
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Tangerine
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Drama
—
*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
User Review
Filming on consistently overpriced hardware that is a manifest of chokepoint capitalism (term coined by Cory Doctorow) is not enough make great cinema.
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Tank Girl
network
Amazon Prime
Action, Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Hbomberguy
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ID
9067
Year
1995
Runtime
104 min
Director
Rachel Talalay
TMDB Rating
5.51
Personal Rating
5
Overview
After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee, head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government, has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.
Friend Review
Whenever Tank Girl somehow managed to poke itself into a conversation in high school, someone would always feel forced to mention the movie was bad. The person saying this had, invariably, never seen it. They knew it was bad, though. Like an ancestral memory, they knew instinctively the film which came out when they were 2 had sucked. Maybe a parent had seen it, or an uncle. Or they'd been on thatguywiththeglasses.com and seen that man with those glasses shriek that it was bad, while pretending to fire a plastic gun at the screen.I always thought 'that's weird. normally people have seen the movie before they say these things.'One day when I was 17 and I was up late with insomnia yet again, I watched it.My belief in the human spirit was permanently altered, for better and worse.Tank Girl is amazing! It was fun! It was exactly the sort of thing a teenager my age and mindset needed to see in that exact moment. It was, dare I say, completely perfect, for that night in 2010. The idea someone could make a movie like that in 1995, that those people walked among us, brought me no end of joy. You're not alone. Your people are out there. We're going to be okay.Except...that means you spend every day knowing people will lie to your face, and they don't even know it. They don't even watch the things they talk about. They just play word-games with half-remembered rotten tomatoes scores and metacritic summaries. They IMAGINE an opinion at you. And if people can be so obviously wrong about this, how can you trust them to have such certain opinions about economic systems, global conflicts, or medicine? A great maw opens in the Earth and threatens to swallow you whole. It was so easy before, to assume the people around you were generally right. Now you don't know. You don't even know if you can trust yourself any more. How many things did I really form an opinion about, by myself? You have to start from scratch, watch everything, read everything, think about everything.That night, my life started.Was I radicalized by a movie where a girl fucks a talking kangaroo? Oh, I'm sorry, was there a more convenient movie to be radicalized by? Bicycle Thieves? Well, they steal a Tank, in this one, and that's better, in my opinion.Tank Girl remains a testament to the untrustworthiness of the human animal, but also to what we can achieve if we try. It is a total certainty that someone who has seen Tank Girl has blown up an oil pipeline, and I think that's a beautiful thing.
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Ten
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Drama
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A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
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Tenet
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
577922
Year
2020
Runtime
150 min
Director
Christopher Nolan
TMDB Rating
7.176
Overview
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Friend Review
Introduced by Harvard physicist Dr. Jacob Barandes.
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay
Studio
Les Films du Carrosse
Country
FR
Language
fr
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
8.001
Tagline
Angel faces hell-bent for violence.
Overview
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
User Review
Jean-Pierre Léaud is super in this story of a troubled young lad who goes from having troubles at school to petty crime, all under the not so very watchful gazes of his adulteress mother (Claire Mauri…
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The Act of Killing
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime
Documentary, History
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*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
123678
Year
2012
Runtime
117 min
Director
Joshua Oppenheimer
Cinematographer
Lars Skree
Cast
Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno
Studio
Final Cut for Real
Country
DK
Language
da
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
7.667
Tagline
A story of killers who win and the society they build.
Overview
In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.
User Review
The synopsis is available elsewhere and I have no idea how to review a film like this so here are a few simple lines: I have never seen anything remotely like this and would go as far as to say that …
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The Ascent
list
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, War
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Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
ID
50183
Original Title
Восхождение
Year
1977
Runtime
110 min
Director
Larisa Shepitko
Writer
Yuri Klepikov
Cinematographer
Vladimir Chukhnov
Cast
Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul
Studio
Mosfilm
Country
SU
Language
ru
TMDB Rating
7.8
Overview
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
User Review
This starts and finishes with the same shot - a freezing cold snowscape peppered with a few telegraph poles amidst a wilderness that the Soviet population were prepared to to die to protect from the i…
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Drama, Music
KermodeAndMayo's Take
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ID
1122099
Year
2025
Runtime
100 min
Director
James Griffiths
Writer
Tom Basden
Cinematographer
G. Magni Ágústsson
Cast
Tom Basden, Tim Key, Carey Mulligan, Sian Clifford, Akemnji Ndifornyen
Studio
Baby Cow Productions
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
7.272
Personal Rating
5
Tagline
He's getting the band back together.
Overview
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
Network Sources
KermodeAndMayo's Take
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Recapturing the past may be an enticing, seductive prospect, especially when it involves revisiting pleasant memories of days gone by. But is it realistically achievable or just wishful thinking? That…
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The Card Counter
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
643532
Year
2021
Runtime
112 min
Director
Paul Schrader
TMDB Rating
6.118
Overview
William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
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Cinematographer Alexander Dynan joined us for a Q&A moderated by DigBoston's Jake Mulligan.
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The Conformist
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Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube
Drama
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Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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The Conversation
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Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
ID
592
Year
1974
Runtime
115 min
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Writer
Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer
Bill Butler
Cast
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Studio
The Directors Company
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
7.5
Tagline
Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business.
Overview
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
User Review
Unfortunately, it appears with every passing day that the great American paranoid political thrillers of the 60's and 70's, with its strongest work bookended by 'The Manchurian Candidate' (eerily fore…
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The Death of Robin Hood
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Action
Daniel Simpson
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ID
1284465
Year
2026
Runtime
123 min
Director
Michael Sarnoski
TMDB Rating
6.8
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
Grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.
Friend Review
On the surface, it's hard to think of a more "wrong time wrong place" movie than The Death of Robin Hood in 2026. A movie about how the guy who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor was actually the bad guy? In a time of vast and widespread wealth disparity, a declining middle class, a shrinking of economic opportunity, and a growing hatred for the rich assholes who fuck our world into oblivion? What manufactured consent CEO class approved bullshit is this? Has David Zaslav found his first screenwriting credit? As it turns out though, The Death of Robin Hood isn't so much interested in litigating the socio-economic politics of the character than it is using the myth as an entry into hero deconstruction. And at first brush, it looks like The Death of Robin Hood is setting up a familiar narrative. The much mythologized hero is far less honourable than the legends suggest, and is in fact a violent killer. But he's also old, facing the end, and may well be offered redemption in the form of one final stand, this time for a just cause.But the movie doesn't quite go down this road. In a similar way that Michael Sarnoski's previous film Pig continually suggested it would become an ass-kicking revenge movie at any minute, The Death of Robin Hood gestures towards an outlaw's last stand movie in the vein of The Wild Bunch, Unforgiven, or most tellingly in the casting, Logan, only to go another direction. The thing about those movies - and I do love them all - is that for all their deconstruction, they're also very affirming of the myths they're examining, especially in climaxes which allow the audience to indulge in the thrill of violence. Some times with a layer of criticism or introspection that complicates that enjoyment, but all the same they deliver the goods. The Death of Robin Hood, meanwhile, frontloads its graphic violence to its opening, the rest of the movie being a much slower, much more muted character study.It's not surprising then that film has proven so divisive but I rather enjoyed it. I found that study rewarding, that subversion of expectations refreshing. It's also very well-executed. Hugh Jackman in particular is great, even beyond the performance offering a compelling counterpoint to his work in Logan. The violence in the first act is also very hard hitting. That all said, for as refreshing as the film's narrative proved, it's aesthetic is much more familiar, clearly drying from the likes of Robert Eggers and films like The Green Knight. It achieves that aesthetic pretty well and it's also suited to the material so it's hardly a wrong choice, but it excites me a lot less than it might have five or ten years ago. Overall though, this is a solid movie, much better than appearances first suggested, and a further indicator that Sarnoski is someone to watch.
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The Deserted
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Drama
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*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
476896
Original Title
家在蘭若寺
Year
2018
Runtime
55 min
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Cast
Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching, Ivy Yin
Country
TW
Language
zh
TMDB Rating
7
Overview
Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film. The Deserted stripped away traditional film techniques and is presented in 360 degrees, like a theatre. The viewer is placed in the scene and is allowed to look freely at the construction of the environment. And immersed in the handcraft of the scenes.
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The Devil Wears Prada 2
network
Amazon Prime
Comedy, Drama
Maia
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ID
1314481
Year
2026
Runtime
119 min
Director
David Frankel
TMDB Rating
7.03
Personal Rating
2
Overview
Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect with former assistant Emily Charlton, now the head of a luxury brand that possesses funding which could ensure Runway's survival.
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did a full video essay review of this for patreon! www.patreon.com/broeydeschanel/posts/devil-defanged-2-161970453
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The Drama
list
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Maia
Kermode & Mayo Film of the Week
ID
1325734
Year
2026
Runtime
105 min
Director
Kristoffer Borgli
Writer
Kristoffer Borgli
Cinematographer
Arseni Khachaturan
Cast
Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Jordyn Curet
Studio
A24
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
6.939
Personal Rating
4
Tagline
Witness the wedding of the year.
Overview
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
Friend Review
Kristoffer Borgli has now made two (English language) movies that should be great but fail to stick their landings. Dream Scenario and The Drama both realize their provocative premises by the end of their first acts and then drag those concepts kicking and screaming to the end until they’re barely recognizable. These movies are high in concept but low in octane. The Drama is a solid draft - the range of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s abilities is on full display. Borgli clearly took notes on the rom com formula (gorgeous sets, aspirational jobs, a network of friends, quirked up protagonists) and is doing clever editing work to draw out some really compelling humour. When we cut to a montage of Charlie glancing with dawning horror at his little bespectacled, gun-wielding fiancé, I realized I hadn’t laughed that hard in a theatre since Nicholas Cage fart-jizzed in Borgli’s last feature. Like Dream Scenario, Borgli is once again poking at delicate subject matter. The issue, however, is that he doesn’t poke hard enough. The power of dark comedy is its ability to reveal truths about difficult topics. When Emma reveals in a no-holds-barred dinner conversation about “the worst thing you’ve ever done,” that she planned a school shooting at age fifteen, the movie veers into a troublesome sticky area which it needs to write itself out of. This is an opportunity to dig into Emma’s interiority - how and why a person could slide to such extremes and then slide back into normal life. It’s also an opportunity for insights into her and Charlie’s relationship and the strength of their bond. To ask complicated questions about love and sacrifice. But this requires depths that Borgli is not interested in diving into. His pokes don’t penetrate, they leave the topic wobbling flaccidly. The humour is sapped not from sad truths about the violence that pulsates beneath American life, but simply from endless and increasingly cheap references to guns (images of guns on mugs, a photographer saying "shoot," Emma in a photo with Charlie doing finger guns). Borgli hinges Emma’s motivations on violent aesthetics and the odd body check from a classmate. His questions about love and sacrifice are shoved into a draft wedding speech from Charlie that is deleted as fast as it’s written. And Emma is rendered more or less mute for the rest of the film, while Charlie and the others take centre stage.Worst, Borgli cultivates a universe, much like Dream Scenario, of one-dimensional characters who are set up to be well-rounded but written into stupidity for the sake of the bit. There was a kid at my high school who revealed, in a similar manner to Emma, that he had brought a weapon to his middle school after years of vicious bullying. No one was hurt, but he ended up spending the night in jail. He was by all accounts a gentle kid and extremely remorseful, and when he told this story my class gathered around to hug him. This was a response from a group of fourteen year olds - yet every one of Borgli’s 30-somethings respond to Emma’s confession with the same keyboard warrior sensibility of the characters persecuting Paul in Dream Scenario. It’s cynical, and if your screenplay needs to forgo all reason in order to carry out its premise, then maybe it needs a second look.The absurd escalation of the narrative following Emma’s confession would be more justified if she actually carried out the shooting but, of course, Borgli would be making a very different movie. Instead it's stuck in the sticky area, poking that which it cannot break, asking more questions than it’s interested in answering, and infuriatingly straddling genres that it would absolutely nail if it wasn’t so smugly trying to do it all. Nevertheless, I’m excited for Borgli’s next feature. I think next time he’ll land it.
User Review
i think it is a lovely movie about finding love, in the shadow of guns though.
love is when you do not need a reason to forgive.
sweet and amusing!
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The Electric State
network
Netflix
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Pop Detective
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ID
777443
Year
2025
Runtime
125 min
Director
Joe Russo
TMDB Rating
6.491
Overview
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
Friend Review
I’d love to see a de-Netflixed edit of this movie where 90% of the totally unnecessary dialogue is removed.
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The Empire Strikes Back
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
Daniel Simpson
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ID
1891
Year
1980
Runtime
124 min
Director
Irvin Kershner
TMDB Rating
8.392
Personal Rating
5
Overview
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Friend Review
Despite being an "Empire is the best Star Wars" guy since I was a teenager when it came time to actually make my Top 100 Movies video, I ultimately put the first film in the list instead. Part of that might just be a by-product of how auteur-centric that whole endeavor was, and putting a Star Wars directed by anyone other than George Lucas just felt wrong. It was also in part about looking beyond Star Wars and to the broader world of cinema. In that context, the original film is the best, the most creative, most inspired, and most innovative. In an alternate universe where it spawned no sequels, Star Wars would still stand tall as an exquisite fusion of disparate genres and styles, blended together and bound by an archetypal adventure, resulting in a pitch-perfect piece of escapism, a movie that both feels cutting-edge and classical at the same time. But it did spawn sequels, it spawned a whole saga in fact, and if The Empire Strikes Back has a claim to being the best one, it's for enriching that saga. New additions like Cloud City, Yoda, and a greater education on The Force expand the world, making it feel even vaster than we first knew. Our returning characters are also given new depths, especially Luke, who remains something of an impulsive youth, but carries a greater maturity. Then there's Darth Vader, who is simultaneously made more frightening and omnipotent than the elevated heavy he was in the last movie, and more vulnerable, with more glimpses of the man behind the machinery. Even the film's visual style feels more honed and disciplined. Gone is the scrappy charm of George Lucas's serial matinee throwback, Empire is austere and imposing.In the context of cinema, Star Wars is the best Star Wars movie. In the context of The Saga, however, it might still be The Empire Strikes Back. If nothing else, Empire is the movie that evokes an epic sense of mythos that none of the future Star Wars films, for all their strengths, have ever really come close to again.
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, History
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
601470
Year
2021
Runtime
126 min
Director
Michael Showalter
TMDB Rating
6.446
Overview
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
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Opened on Friday, September 17.
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The Farewell
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Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Drama
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*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
565310
Year
2019
Runtime
100 min
Director
Lulu Wang
Writer
Lulu Wang
Cinematographer
Anna Franquesa Solano
Cast
Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen, Hong Lu, Hong Lin, Tzi Ma
Studio
Big Beach
Country
CN
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
7.415
Personal Rating
3
Tagline
Based on an actual lie.
Overview
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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When a Chinese family finds out that the family’s matriarch is dying of lung cancer, complications arise. In Chinese culture, there is a saying that when you get cancer, you die. This actually boils d…
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Review (nyt)
A.O. Scott · The New York Times — "Awkwafina stars in Lulu Wang’s latest feature, a fictionalized account of her family’s efforts to shield her grandmother from a grim diagnosis."
The Final Girls
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy, Horror
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
293970
Year
2015
Runtime
91 min
Director
Todd Strauss-Schulson
TMDB Rating
6.4
Overview
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
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Double feature in the Rocky Woods.
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The Furious
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Action, Crime
Thomas Flight
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ID
1280738
Year
2026
Runtime
113 min
Director
Kenji Tanigaki
TMDB Rating
7.7
Overview
After Wang Wei's daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network and he receives no help from the corrupt police, Wei sets out to find her himself. His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled by a furious vengeance, the unlikely duo ruthlessly battle the kidnappers in this explosive martial arts showdown.
Friend Review
You know exactly what kind of movie you're watching when bro gets absolutely clocked by a truck in the first set piece, walks it off, sticks his limbs in some ice water, and is ready to go harder than ever in the next scene.
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The Holdovers
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Comedy
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ID
840430
Year
2023
Runtime
133 min
Director
Alexander Payne
Writer
David Hemingson
Cinematographer
Eigil Bryld
Cast
Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner
Studio
Miramax
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.643
Tagline
Discomfort and joy.
Overview
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
User Review
Never finished it. Really disappointing compared to the hype.
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
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Criterion Channel
War, Drama, History
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ID
31217
Original Title
人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇
Year
1959
Runtime
204 min
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Masaki Kobayashi
Cinematographer
Yoshio Miyajima
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, So Yamamura
Studio
Ninjin Club
Country
JP
Language
ja
TMDB Rating
8.128
Tagline
The Immortal Story.
Overview
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
User Review
I'm finally through watching this mammoth of an epic (for several days) and I'm beyond impressed! When I think of a great movie, this trilogy comes very close is what I typically have in mind: A well-…
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The Intruder
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Drama
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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time – 2022
Your worst enemies are hiding inside, in the shadow, in your heart.
Overview
An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
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The Invite
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Drama, Comedy
Thomas Flight
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ID
950028
Year
2026
Runtime
107 min
Director
Olivia Wilde
TMDB Rating
7.826
Overview
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.
Friend Review
Walking a tightrope but gets to where it’s going surprisingly deftly. The cast navigates the shifts between comedy and drama well, with a special shoutout to Edward Norton who plays the driest character of the bunch and still manages to be hilarious. Not actually that much about sex and much more about the impact of self-image on relationships. (But aren’t those two things more intertwined than we like to think anyway?). Some of Wilde’s best work as a director. I sometimes wish Rogen didn’t switch on caps lock as much, but he ends up in a place on this that I haven’t really seen from him before which is refreshing.
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The Lost Leonardo
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Documentary, History
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
822099
Year
2021
Runtime
95 min
Director
Andreas Koefoed
TMDB Rating
7.2
Overview
London, England, 2008. Some of the most distinguished experts on the work of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) gather at the National Gallery to examine a painting known as Salvator Mundi; an event that turns out to be the first act of one of the most fascinating stories in the history of art.
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Opened on Friday, August 27, and closed on Thursday, September 9.
A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.
User Review
We used to have loads of this author’s books at home when we were kids, and I always thought her signature on the cover said Gnid, rather than Enid. Now fifty years or so later, her stories don’t alwa…
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The Magnificent Ambersons
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Plex, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Romance
Daniel Simpson
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ID
965
Year
1942
Runtime
88 min
Director
Orson Welles
TMDB Rating
7.333
Personal Rating
4.5
Overview
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Friend Review
On my prior watches of The Magnificent Ambersons I focused on what was missing from the movie, the fabled 43 minutes of footage deleted and eventually destroyed by the fools at RKO. But on this viewing, I focused on what still remains, and what remains is pretty extraordinary. Even if obviously incomplete, the rise and fall of the Amberson family (and especially the comeuppance of spoiled George) is very much in tact and still moving. The sweep of the story is at once sprawling and intimate. More crucial still is Orson Welles' awesome presence behind the camera. Ambersons may be less grandiose than Citizen Kane but it is nonetheless visually spellbinding, with fluid camera movement, a gorgeous central set, and especially beautiful interplay of light and darkness. The layers of light and shadow Welles and cinematographer Stanley Cortez accomplish here is amazing. There's also the wonderful energy and wit to the film's prologue, which sets so much of this story in motion with the lightest and most charming touch. More than anything, all of the film's formal elements are overflowing with Welles' sheer playfulness, his sense of wonder at what is possible with a camera and with images.The film of course remains imperfect. Much as the first half is actually quite strong, by the back half it's glaringly obvious that massive chunks of the story are missing. Granted, there is still a kind of power here. It's fitting that so much of the talk about automobiles concerns their potential to accelerate the pacing of every day life, and that progress in the story is marked by an acceleration of the film's pacing too. I am less able to rationalize the happy ending RKO filmed without Orson's involvement. It sucks. The film has not been building to an ending of any sort so a sudden stop feels abrupt but the stop we get is also especially incongruous from everything else we've seen. It's also clearly lacking the visual imagination that has fueled every other frame. I hate that it's here and that it's how the film closes out.Still, I can't deny how utterly enthralled I was on this go-around. I was wrapped up in Joseph Cotten and Dolores Costello's gentle romance, in Agnes Moorehead's twisting jealousy and sadness, and in Anne Baxter's quiet wisdom beyond her years. And then there's Tim Holt, clearly outclassed by the rest of the cast, but that's perfect for George's stubborn ignorance, and his lack of worthiness to the Amberson name. Scene after scene, I was in heaven, even as the film's structure started to fall apart. Welles himself believed the completed Ambersons was superior to Citizen Kane, and subsequent scholars, critics, and fans have made similar arguments. Now, as someone who thinks Kane is exactly as good as its reputation suggests (if not a little bit better) I tend to bristle at such sentiment, but given how astonishing The Magnificent Ambersons is even in this butchered state, who knows?
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The Night House
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Amazon Prime, YouTube
Horror, Mystery
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
547565
Year
2021
Runtime
107 min
Director
David Bruckner
TMDB Rating
6.553
Overview
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Friend Review
Opened Friday, August 20, and closed on Thursday, September 2.
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The Odyssey
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Adventure, Action, Fantasy
Thomas Flight
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ID
1368337
Year
2026
Runtime
173 min
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer
Hoyte van Hoytema
Cast
Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Himesh Patel
Studio
Universal Pictures
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.9
Tagline
Defy the gods.
Overview
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.
Friend Review
Saw this in 70mm IMAX, which I mention not for bragging rights but simply because it does significantly effect the experience for me. I find the format itself, when experienced in full, beautiful enough that I would contentedly sit and watch 3 hours of unedited dailies projected this way and have a great time. This being the first narrative project shot entirely in the format also further enhanced this experience, gone are the distracting format and aspect ratio changes that interrupted scenes in Nolan's previous work. Overall I would say getting to watch the movie this way probably gives the film a +1 star buff for me. This is by my estimation easily Nolan's best film in years. I was a little concerned in the first act by the amount of yapping, but it settles into a more dramatically interesting space with each progressive set piece. The 3rd act is the best and most satisfying. Some of my usual Nolan gripes linger; there's still some annoyingly unnecessary exposition, and perhaps most bothersome it's like the film is afraid of lingering in the very sublime the format, locations, and cinematography are working overtime to capture. There are absolutely stunning shots and views that flit past so quickly it's frustrating. I want to linger and breath for a moment. I want to feel the weight of passing time. I know it's already a 3 hour film, but cut out some of the exposition and I think the space would be there.BUT! There's enough done very well here that my quibbles are forgotten in the sheer force of each sequence that really works, where the images get to speak for themselves. And it all built towards a finale that actually worked for me. Grand spectacle. P.S. I like it when he gets a little freaky. More Nolan body horror!
User Review
only One word " Masterpiece "
every department at its finest
Direction top notch
screenplay top notch
Music and Background Tracks Top notch
cinematography top notch
totally a typical Nolan's film
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The Red Shoes
list
Max, Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Plex, YouTube
Drama, Romance
—
Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
ID
19542
Year
1948
Runtime
133 min
Director
Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Michael Powell
Cinematographer
Jack Cardiff
Cast
Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine
Studio
The Archers
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
7.979
Tagline
Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!
Overview
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
User Review
Moira Shearer is just excellent in this fine example of the cinematographer and choreographer's arts - all under the able and inspired direction of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. She is the as…
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The Road to Freedom
watchlist
Amazon Prime
Adventure, Drama, War
—
—
ID
72844
Year
2011
Runtime
93 min
Director
Brendan Moriarty
Cast
Joshua Fredric Smith, Scott Maguire, Tom Proctor, Nhem Sokun
Language
en
TMDB Rating
0
Overview
About two Photo Journalists that risk their lives by going into a War torn Cambodia in an effort to bring the worlds attention to this region.
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Review (nyt)
Jeannette Catsoulis · The New York Times — "“The Road to Freedom” stars Joshua Fredric Smith as Errol Flynn’s son, Sean, a photojournalist who disappeared in Cambodia during the Vietnam War."
Review (rt)
Ethan Gilsdorf · Boston Globe — "Unfortunately, beyond orchestrating crane shots sweeping over lush jungles and rice paddies, newcomer Brendan Moriarty is fairly clueless as a director."
Review (rt)
Jeannette Catsoulis · New York Times — "Drags us through miles of jungle and reams of stilted, soul-sucking dialogue."
Review (rt)
Walter V. Addiego · San Francisco Chronicle — "The problem is that the film, though heartfelt, isn't very good."
The Room
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Drama, Romance
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
17473
Year
2003
Runtime
100 min
Director
Tommy Wiseau
Writer
Tommy Wiseau
Cinematographer
Todd Barron
Cast
Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott
Studio
Chloe Productions
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
4.001
Tagline
Can you ever really trust anyone?
Overview
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Friend Review
With Greg Sestero in person!
User Review
After seeing the Disaster Artist, I had to see this movie! HORRIBLE! Laughing my ass off but HORRIBLE! Good for you Tommy! Live thendream!!! Still laughing that I'm really watching this! Kind of like a porn movie without the porn!!!
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The Sheep Detectives
network
Amazon Prime
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Daniel Simpson
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ID
1301421
Year
2026
Runtime
109 min
Director
Kyle Balda
TMDB Rating
7.841
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
George Hardy is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realize they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.
Friend Review
I can't say I had the slightest iota of interest in The Sheep Detectives when I first saw the trailer. Live action talking animal movies are just about the least dignified genre of cinema around. You're better off being caught watching hentai than one of these flicks. "From the director of several Minions movies" would seemingly confirm my own biases about this movie. But the film has been quite successful, shockingly well-reviewed across general audiences, professional critics, and even the broad Letterboxd community. The film has also been a modest but impressive hit. In my own neck of the woods, the film has been playing at the indie cinema for months and can still pull dozens of people even though it's now streaming on Prime. So, what the hell, I gave it a shot, and what do you know, it is good. The mystery is pretty well-constructed and engaging and the talking animal hijynx that would seemingly be my kryptonite were also good fun. When the MGM lion roared only for a sheep's baaa to be audible, I laughed. When it happened on the second roar, I laughed again. The film is also more concerned with mortality than I would have guessed from the marketing. This is very much a film about contending with death, not just dealing with it emotionally, but conceptually, wrapping one's head around what death even is. For adults it's nothing mind blowing, but it's surprising stuff for a kids movie and its conveyed pretty well.More common is all the material about winter lambs being discriminated against for no real reason. This starts as just a subplot and while it does become more fully integrated with the rest of the movie, it's still well-worn territory and way less interesting than mortality aspects. Still, this is a cute movie. The cast is good, the jokes mostly work, the mystery is well-designed and laid out. "Fun for the whole family" is often the kiss of death, but The Sheep Detectives really is.
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The Siege of Paradise
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Documentary
—
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ID
1632613
Year
2026
Runtime
82 min
Director
Gar O'Rourke
Writer
Gar O'Rourke
Cinematographer
Lukas Gut
Cast
Gar O'Rourke
Country
IE
Language
en
TMDB Rating
0
Overview
In Cinque Terre on Italy’s northern Riviera, fewer than 3,000 locals endure over four million tourists each summer. Across one chaotic season, six very different lives play out in parallel, revealing a sharply funny and surprisingly tender story of paradise under pressure in the age of social media driven tourism.
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The Souvenir
list
Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Romance, Drama
—
*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
473019
Year
2019
Runtime
120 min
Director
Joanna Hogg
Writer
Joanna Hogg
Cinematographer
David Raedeker
Cast
Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Ariane Labed
Studio
BBC Film
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
6.072
Tagline
The past never stays in focus.
Overview
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
User Review
masterpiece
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The Stranger
watchlist
Amazon Prime, Plex, YouTube
Thriller, Crime
—
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ID
20246
Year
1946
Runtime
95 min
Director
Orson Welles
Writer
Anthony Veiller
Cinematographer
Russell Metty
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long
Studio
International Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
TMDB Rating
7.217
Tagline
The most deceitful man a woman ever loved!
Overview
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
User Review
Excellent cinematography and camerawork as can be expected from Welles. Entertaining throughout. Watch if you're a fan of film noir
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Family, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
Pop Detective
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ID
1226863
Year
2026
Runtime
98 min
Director
Aaron Horvath
TMDB Rating
8.3
Overview
Having thwarted Bowser's previous plot to marry Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi now face a fresh threat in Bowser Jr., who is determined to liberate his father from captivity and restore the family legacy. Alongside companions new and old, the brothers travel across the stars to stop the young heir's crusade.
Friend Review
Kids deserve so much better than this slop, which fails at the most basic level of emotional literacy. This movie doesn't respect its audience. It doesn't respect Nintendo fans. And it doesn't respect children's intelligence. It's a cynical insulting cash grab, and not even one with the decency to pretend its anything else.
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The Sweet East
network
Amazon Prime
Comedy
Maia
—
ID
1010639
Year
2023
Runtime
104 min
Director
Sean Price Williams
TMDB Rating
6.5
Personal Rating
3.5
Overview
A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.
Friend Review
SPW is one of the few (if not the only) who can win me over on the basis of cinematography alone…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Drama, Romance
—
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ID
10644
Year
1988
Director
Philip Kaufman
TMDB Rating
6.865
Personal Rating
5
Overview
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
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false
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The World Will Tremble
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, War, History
KermodeAndMayo's Take
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ID
1419826
Year
2025
Runtime
109 min
Director
Lior Geller
Writer
Lior Geller
Cinematographer
Ivan Vatsov
Cast
Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Charlie MacGechan, Michael Epp, David Kross
Studio
Lorton Entertainment
Country
US
Language
en
TMDB Rating
7.469
Personal Rating
5
Overview
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
Network Sources
KermodeAndMayo's Take
User Review
The unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust never cease to leave audiences aghast and speechless, particularly when it comes to wondering how something like this ever could have been allowed to happen in…
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There's Always Tomorrow
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Romance
bkrewind
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ID
37637
Year
1956
Runtime
84 min
Director
Douglas Sirk
TMDB Rating
7.144
Personal Rating
4
Overview
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Friend Review
cracking my knuckles and writing an essay about why you should double feature this with Safe here's me fangirling over barbara stanwyck for 2+ hours: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMtLXA-E8Q
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Throne of Blood
list
Max, Apple TV, Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime
Drama, History
—
Sight and Sound's Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
User Review
One of a number of films that Akira Kurosawa made in the 1950s and which have become classics, Throne of Blood is the director's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan but showing th…
When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
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Thunderbolts*
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Pop Detective
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ID
986056
Year
2025
Runtime
127 min
Director
Jake Schreier
TMDB Rating
7.293
Overview
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
Friend Review
It's a Marvel movie which means face punching is the de-facto solution to every problem, even when the problem is depression. That absurdity aside, this was one of the better installments in the MCU, largely thanks to the humor and acting chops of Florence Pugh and David Harbour.
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Titicut Follies
watchlist
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Documentary, Drama
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ID
41212
Year
1967
Runtime
84 min
Director
Frederick Wiseman
Writer
Frederick Wiseman
Cinematographer
John Marshall
Studio
Zipporah Films
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
7.24
Tagline
Don't turn your back on this film if you value your mind or your life.
Overview
A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.
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TRON: Ares
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
Pop Detective
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ID
533533
Year
2025
Runtime
119 min
Director
Joachim Rønning
TMDB Rating
6.493
Overview
A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.
Friend Review
How many hundreds of people had to green-light this absolute trainwreck and then keep pouring millions upon millions of dollars into it all along the way? This really should be a career killer for Jared Leto.
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Urchin
list
Amazon Prime, YouTube, Plex
Drama
—
Kermode & Mayo Film of the Week
ID
1283320
Year
2025
Runtime
99 min
Director
Harris Dickinson
Writer
Harris Dickinson
Cinematographer
Josée Deshaies
Cast
Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Karyna Khymchuk, Shonagh Marie, Amr Waked
Studio
Devisio
Country
GB
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
6.6
Tagline
You're going to be just fine.
Overview
Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Along the way, he encounters unexpected chances for a fresh start.
User Review
“Mike” (Frank Dillane) isn’t a bad man, he’s just an addict, down on his luck and living on the streets of an unforgiving London. The social services manage to find him a room in an hostel and even a …
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Vagabond
network
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama
Maia
—
ID
44018
Year
1985
Runtime
106 min
Director
Agnès Varda
TMDB Rating
7.35
Personal Rating
5
Overview
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
Friend Review
there are many ugly qualities in Mona I was displeased to recognize in myself, which makes her journey all the more affecting. this movie is the perfect distillation of "wherever you go, there you are"...so beautiful
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Videoheaven
watchlist
Criterion Channel
Documentary
—
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ID
1387976
Year
2025
Runtime
172 min
Director
Alex Ross Perry
Writer
Alex Ross Perry
Cast
Maya Hawke
Studio
Cinema Conservancy
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
NR
TMDB Rating
6
Personal Rating
4
Overview
Since the 1980s, the video shop has been a desperately necessary space for film culture. In Videoheaven, Alex Ross Perry tells the story of the neighbourhood video shop to consider wider, changing social histories, using appropriated footage from the high and lowbrow.
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
network
Netflix
Thriller, Mystery, Comedy
Pop Detective
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ID
812583
Year
2025
Runtime
145 min
Director
Rian Johnson
TMDB Rating
7.211
Overview
When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.
Friend Review
This is my favorite movie of 2025! Absolutely fantastic. Heartfelt. As good as the original and unexpectedly funny in perfectly timed moments. The whole theater was laughing. Try to see it in an actual theater if you can before it gets downgraded and relegated to Netflix screens. It's worth it, promise.
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Wanda
network
Apple TV, Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, Max
Drama, Crime
Maia
—
ID
80560
Year
1970
Runtime
103 min
Director
Barbara Loden
TMDB Rating
6.801
Personal Rating
5
Overview
After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
Friend Review
mesmerizing and brutal
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false
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War for the Planet of the Apes
list
Apple TV, Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Science Fiction, War
—
*UPDATED!* Every film in Mark Cousins' The Story Of Film: An Odyssey and The Story Of Film: A New Generation
ID
281338
Year
2017
Runtime
140 min
Director
Matt Reeves
Writer
Matt Reeves
Cinematographer
Michael Seresin
Cast
Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Steve Zahn
Studio
20th Century Fox
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG-13
TMDB Rating
7.221
Personal Rating
2
Tagline
For freedom. For family. For the planet.
Overview
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
User Review
Excellent trilogy
Most Hollywood remakes/reboots are failed cash grabs. They are pale imitations of the superior originals. But the new Planet of the Apes trilogy surprises in that it trumps all th…
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Wet Hot American Summer
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Comedy
Coolidge Corner Theatre
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ID
2171
Year
2001
Runtime
97 min
Director
David Wain
TMDB Rating
6.249
Overview
It's the last day of Camp Firewood's season, but there's still time for the big talent show, a little romance… and for everyone to be wiped out by the piece of NASA's Skylab that's hurtling toward Earth.
Friend Review
Double feature in the Rocky Woods.
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Where Is The Friend's House?
watchlist
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama, Adventure
—
—
ID
49964
Original Title
خانهی دوست کجاست؟
Year
1987
Runtime
83 min
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematographer
Farhad Saba
Cast
Babek Ahmadpour, Ahmed Ahmadpour, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari, Ait Ansari
Studio
Kanoon
Country
IR
Language
fa
TMDB Rating
7.9
Overview
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
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Whiplash
network
Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Plex
Drama, Music, Thriller
Thomas Flight, Maia
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ID
244786
Year
2014
Runtime
107 min
Director
Damien Chazelle
Writer
Damien Chazelle
Cinematographer
Sharone Meir
Cast
Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell
Studio
Bold Films
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
8.375
Personal Rating
4
Tagline
The road to greatness can take you to the edge.
Overview
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Network Sources
Thomas Flight, Maia
User Review
crazy 100%
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Wicked: For Good
list
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
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Kermode & Mayo Film of the Week
ID
967941
Year
2025
Runtime
137 min
Director
Jon M. Chu
Writer
Winnie Holzman
Cinematographer
Alice Brooks
Cast
Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey
Studio
Universal Pictures
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
PG
TMDB Rating
6.6
Personal Rating
4
Tagline
You will be changed.
Overview
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
User Review
Cynthia Erivo's outstanding perfomance and the part of dividing critics and fans on how dark it is, because it is dark, it is the second act of the musical of course. The No Good Deed one of Cynthia is SO SO GOOD
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Wild
network
Amazon Prime, YouTube
Drama
Maia
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ID
228970
Year
2014
Runtime
115 min
Director
Jean-Marc Vallée
TMDB Rating
7.008
Personal Rating
3
Overview
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Friend Review
I like what they were going for but woof dialogue is brutal
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Wild at Heart
watchlist
Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, YouTube
Crime, Thriller, Romance
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ID
483
Year
1990
Runtime
125 min
Director
David Lynch
Writer
David Lynch
Cinematographer
Frederick Elmes
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton
Studio
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Country
US
Language
en
MPAA Rating
R
TMDB Rating
7.038
Tagline
A wild and crazy love story.
Overview
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
User Review
"Wild at Heart" quickly becomes completely incomprehensible and mired down in David Lynch's typical quagmire of self indulgence which successfully aggravates, alienates and frustrates mainstream audie…
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Review (nyt)
Caryn James · The New York Times — "Perky, disreputable housemaid in 1935 Georgia. Honest and engaging."
Review (rt)
Steve Murray · Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "Wild, yes. But not much heart."
Review (rt)
Jonathan Rosenbaum · Sight & Sound — "Perhaps the major problem is that despite Cage and Dern's best efforts, Lynch is ultimately interested only in iconography, not characters at all."
Review (rt)
Scott Tobias · The Dissolve — "There's a spontaneous, anything-can-happen feeling to it that's the primary appeal of any road movie."
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Friend Review
I could see either Bette Davis (who originally wanted the role) or Vivien Leigh (who Olivier wanted) playing Cathy—both clearly can nail the bratty girl bopping around in a Mary Todd Lincoln becurled wig...but I quite like Oberon's performance here. Something very childlike about her impetuousness and panic that works really well for Cathy. She embodies Cathy's aspirations and ambitions so well, because she understood them herself.More about Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8ic1r3fXw