Tag: 2010s
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My Favorite First-Time Watches of 2025
The best movies I saw in 2025 that weren’t released in 2025.
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Odds & Ends: June 2025
Notes from the last month.
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‘Drunktown’s Finest’ is an Affecting Ensemble Drama
Sydney Freeland’s 2014 drama’s realism doesn’t undercut its sensitivity.
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Being Man’s Best Friend is Serious Business in ‘Pick of the Litter’
Following a quintet of puppies as they train to become guide dogs, this 2018 documentary is equal parts fascinating and feel-good.
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‘Kedi’: A Charming, Easygoing Love Letter to Cats
The straightforward 2016 documentary gets to know Istanbul’s eye-poppingly large stray-cat population.
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‘Antiporno’’s Productive Unsexiness
Sion Sono’s sui-generis 2016 feature abrasively and abstractly critiques the cultural and cinematic limitations — particularly as they relate to sexual expression — placed on women.
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‘The Perfect Guy’ Goes Through the Erotic-Thriller Motions
Sanaa Lathan is stranded in David M. Rosenthal’s lethargic ‘Fatal Attraction’ knockoff.
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‘Black Coal, Thin Ice’ is a Smart, Chilly Detective Noir
The way writer-director Diao Yinan manages to spin a potentially lurid murder mystery without a whiff of sensationalism is impressive.
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‘The Thieves’ Charmingly Tweaks the ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Formula
Though a little too long, Choi Dong-hoon’s commercial juggernaut is mostly a blast.
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The Life-Affirming Melancholy of ‘Certain Women’
Kelly Reichardt’s sparse, elliptical drama finds power in what it doesn’t say.
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Specters
On Kristen Stewart’s collaborations with Olivier Assayas.
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‘Girlhood’: A Bracing Coming-of-Age Drama from Céline Sciamma
Sciamma avoids the genre’s fondness for sentimentality.
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