Tag: december 2025
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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 Mastermind’ and ‘The Secret Agent’ Aren’t What You Think
For 425: New movies from Kelly Reichardt and Kleber Mendonça Filho, reviewed.
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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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‘Jay Kelly’ and ‘Hamnet’ Want You to Cry
For South Sound: New movies from Noah Baumbach and Chloé Zhao, reviewed.
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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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Afterwords
‘It Was Just an Accident’ and ‘Rebuilding,’ reviewed.