Tag: 2020s
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Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Aims to Please
For South Sound: Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s space-set adventure wants to be an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser — sometimes to its detriment.
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‘Undertone’: Horror for the Filmed-Podcast Era
Plus: ‘Young Mothers’ is a typically unvarnished, compassionate movie from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. (For 425)
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‘A Poet’ is No Redemption Story
Simón Mesa Soto’s tragicomedy, about a failed poet who finds something to live for in a talented young student, seems poised to be conventionally uplifting before taking some knottier turns.
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Arrangements
‘Pillion’ and ‘Mistress Dispeller,’ reviewed.
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Recent History
‘The Moment’ and ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ reviewed.
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Life During Wartime
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ and ‘Atropia,’ reviewed.
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Survivors
‘All That’s Left of You’ and ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,’ reviewed.
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All in the Family
‘The Chronology of Water,’ ‘Father Mother Sister Brother,’ and ‘Rosemead,’ reviewed.
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Desperados
‘Marty Supreme,’ ‘No Other Choice,’ and ‘Dead Man’s Wire,’ reviewed.
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My 10 Favorite Movies of 2025
In alphabetical order.
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Odds & Ends: 2025 Releases
Notes on a few 2025 releases I got to later than I’d planned on.