Category: Review
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Next Lifetime
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ is a deceptively serene meditation on mortality.
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Final Hours
Michael Roemer’s ‘Dying’ is breathtakingly honest about the emotional realities of terminal illness.
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‘Southern Comfort’ Compassionately Captures an Extraordinary Life
On Kate Davis’ 2001 documentary.
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Mind Games
Mohammad Reza Aslani’s gorgeously shot melodrama ‘Chess of the Wind’ is a revelation that was very nearly lost forever.
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The Wintry, Melancholy Loveliness of ‘The Dead’
On John Huston’s posthumously released swan song.
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Odds & Ends: 2025 Releases
Notes on a few 2025 releases I got to later than I’d planned on.
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Amanda Seyfried Gives One of the Year’s Great Performances in ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet’s follow-up to ‘The Brutalist’ is characteristically bold and brainy.
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The Hunger
Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1965 black comedy ‘I Knew Her Well’ is one of its decade’s most undersung works.
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Josh O’Connor Makes ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Seem Better Than It Is
The latest ‘Knives Out’ movie is a step down from its predecessors.
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‘The Annihilation of Fish’: Charles Burnett’s Rediscovered Midlife Romance
The filmmaker’s recently rediscovered 1999 movie is amiably off-kilter, but it sometimes seems tonally unsure.
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Parallel Lines
Zeinabu irene Davis’ one and only feature-length movie, 1999’s ‘Compensation,’ has gotten a well-deserved second life this year.
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‘An Autumn’s Tale’ is Perfectly Bittersweet
Mabel Cheung’s 1987 not-quite-romantic comedy celebrates love as a vessel for positive change.
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