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20-10-2025 Vol 19

Day: August 31, 2025

Moviehouse on the Edge: IFC Center Picks 20 Films to Commemorate 20 Years in New York

The IFC Center, a five-screen art house cinema in New York’s West Village, is celebrating its 20th anniversary by showing…

Venice Film Festival 2025: Ghost Elephants, Jay Kelly, Bugonia, Cover-Up, After the Hunt

Once again it is my pleasure and my privilege to be reporting to you from Venice, where the Cinema Biennale,…

Caught Stealing Review: Darren Aronofsky Blends a Zany Caper with His Customary Brutality

Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was born and bred San Francisco Giants baseball. Named after one of the most significant Giants…

Telluride Review: This is Not a Drill Offers a Sharp Highlight of Climate Activists Who Still Fight

About an hour into This is Not a Drill, the new documentary from director Oren Jacoby, comes a moment that…

Telluride Review: Ballad of a Small Player is a Delicious, Nasty Exuberance

In Ballad of a Small Player, we are given the gift of Colin Farrell overdoing it. Nobody overdoes it like…

Telluride Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Features Great Performances Inside Stagnant Frames

The line “you did the best you could” is spoken at a crucial moment in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.…

Venice Review: Cover-Up Is the Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Three years after Venice welcomed (and awarded the Golden Lion to) Laura Poitras’s documentary about artist and activist Nan Goldin, All…