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20-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Critic’s Pick

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The Encampments Review: An Inspiring, Essential Portrait of Collective Action

A group of students, primarily led by minority voices, launched encampments in protest of Columbia University’s financial ties to companies…

Việt and Nam Review: A Swooning, Stirring Slow Cinema Romance

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 New York Film Festival coverage. Việt and Nam opens…

Grand Tour Review: An Enchanting Return for Miguel Gomes

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Grand Tour opens in theaters on March…

SXSW Review: Francis Ford Coppola-Backed Brother Verses Brother is a Small Miracle of “Live Cinema”

A tiny miracle of a movie, Ari Gold’s deeply personal Brother Verses Brother is a whimsical musical à la John…

Misericordia Review: A Galvanizing Ode to the Power and Subversiveness of Desire  

Note: This review was originally published as part of our Cannes 2024 coverage. Misericordia will be released in theaters on…

Black Bag Review: Steven Soderbergh Delivers Slick, Barbed Spy Thriller

If a James Bond or Mission: Impossible film excised all its action scenes––save a stray explosion or gunshot––while employing a…

In the Lost Lands Review: Paul W.S. Anderson Finds Poetry In the Fantasy Epic

“The world is a vampire” –– Billy Corgan, 1995 Before jumping directly into the action, Paul W.S. Anderson’s In the…

Berlinale Review: Two Times João Liberada Explores the Limits of Representation

Amongst the debut features populating Berlinale’s new section called Perspectives, none presented so admirably fresh take on fiction and political…

Berlinale Review: What Does That Nature Say to You is Hong Sangsoo’s Meet the Parents

The last time Hong Sangsoo failed to feature in a Berlinale program, Childish Gambino’s “This is America” was in the…

Berlinale Review: Denis Côté’s Paul is a Strikingly Moving Portrait of a Cleaning Simp

Consider the logline: a 34-year-old, pre-diabetic, 250-pound, extremely anxious loner finds respite as a cleaning simp for dominatrices eager to…