28 Years Later is both a strong revival and promising start to the new trilogy.
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In her follow-up to Past Lives, Celine Song crafts a visually polished rom-com that questions modern dating, ambition, and emotional connection—but struggles to ground its characters in real change.
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Final Destination Bloodlines isn’t just another by-the-numbers franchise money-grabber, but one that’s willing to play around—and have a little fun—with the rules of the game.
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Bring Her Back, directed by Danny and Michael Philippou and written by Bill Hinzman and Danny, finetunes the jumpscares and creeping atmosphere of their debut Talk to Me while offering a storyline that’s both more cogent and emotionally intuitive than its predecessor.
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Where some stories of addiction slip into melodrama and misery, Surviving Earth shows the reality of sobriety as a choice that’s made every single day.
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Slanted does well to avoid the pitfall of many modern satires by avoiding an explicit morality tale or an ending that ties everything up with a bow and a preachy monologue.
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Shuffle adeptly straddles the line between documentarian and subject while uncovering a deep web of fraud and scams at the heart of addiction treatment.
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Filmmaker Elaine Epstein on her SXSW premiere of Arrest the Midwife, a documentary on the plight of three midwives in the Northeast.
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Nicole Kidman is excellent in Holland, the new mystery-thriller from director Mimi Cave (who previously directed Fresh)… However, a stellar performance and quirky setting don’t make up for the fact that Holland has little to say.
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At Sundance 2025, Sorry, Baby is just the kind of independent debut you hope to uncover.
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Brit Chainey’s Rabbit Trap, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, tries to capitalize on the wild and weird beauty of Wales to create a folk horror story with a strong emotional tenor. But clever visual tricks and an evocative setting can’t save Rabbit Trap from its own incoherent plot.
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In her directorial debut Seeds, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary, Brittany Shyne offers an intimate look at the fate of Black farmers in the American South. Shooting in black-and-white with a single-minded focus on her subjects, Shyne creates what feels like an elegy for a way of living on the brink of dying out.
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In her directorial debut Oh, Hi!—which premiered this year at Sundance Film Festival—Sophie Brooks takes the decline of modern dating and mixes it up in a frothy rom-com.
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In her new film Sugar Babies, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Rachel Fleit charts the trajectory of a TikTok sugar baby influencer.
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Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies) brings sex back on screen in a big way with her erotic thriller Babygirl.
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Shot entirely in first-person, RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-prize winning book pushes the boundaries of visual storytelling to create a bold and immersive work of art.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig entwines the real threats of a brutal theocracy with the fictional story of one family’s struggle under its absolutist rule.
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We sat down with Norita producers Sarah Schoellkopf and Melissa Daniels to discuss their connection to Nora Cortiñas and the feminist message at the heart of the film.
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With The Substance, Coralie Fargeat goes beyond surface-level depictions of double standards and female rageto not only show flawed, complex women, but also the social conditions shaping their everyday lives.
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After 25 years of production hell, Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice turns out to be a delightful ride of chaos.
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