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La Grazia (2025)
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…
Train Dreams (2025)
Dir. Clint Bentley
Based on the 2011 novella of the same name, Train Dreams depicts the life of Robert Grainier in the first…
The Eternaut
Dir. Bruno Stagnaro
After decades of copyright disputes, The Eternaut finally makes its way on screen, right in time to echo certain worldwide…
Rental Family (2025)
Dir. Hikari
Since the 1990s, Japan has offered the service of pretending to be one’s family, friend, or lover. Rental Family isn’t…
Murder Before Evensong
If I had a nickel for 2025 church-set murder mysteries solved by priests portrayed by handsome English actors, I’d have…
Touch (2024)
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur
With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…
One Day
Dir. Molly Manners
With a film version that didn’t live up to the hype of the original novel, Netflix’s adaptation of One Day…
The Believers
Dir. Wattanapong Wongwan
When people donate to temples, they rarely contemplate the way these donations are used for its upkeep and renovation, and…
Kübra
Saints used to be given divine messages, but in the modern age, what if God, or any higher power, communicated…
The Bequeathed
Dir. Min Hong-nam
Succession, whether that be of family assets or of job titles, is always a tricky situation to navigate– often, those…
Stonewalling (2024)
Dir. Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka
At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…
House of Ninjas
From the fantasy-powered folktales to superhero-like depictions, ninjas have captivated the world, but seem to be a relic of the…
Monsieur Spade
It takes Monsieur Spade some time to settle into its skin. The first few hours are dedicated to introducing as…
Expats
With immigration being a vastly different experience across race, gender, and origin country, it can be easy to dismiss Amazon…
Delicious in Dungeon
When watching fantasy anime, there’s a wonderfully whimsical world that viewers can fully explore. Spectacular magic, brave warriors, and strange…
Penelope
If you’ve seen one too many true crime documentaries, you might shake your head at the things sixteen-year-old Penelope does…
La Chimera (2023)
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
La Chimera is often meandering. Scenes flitter about and move at different paces, resembling dreams more than they do reality,…
The Taste of Things (2023)
Dir. Tran Anh Hung
If it’s true that to cook is to love, then Dodin and Eugenie must be enraptured by one another. They…
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
Dir. Anna Hints
Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
Usually, being swallowed up by a dragon means death. However, for Rentt Faina, The Unwanted Undead Adventurer, becoming a skeleton…
About Dry Grasses (2023)
Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Given the controversial subject matter, there’s something remarkably placid about the way About Dry Grasses proceeds. Amidst the snowy white…
Youth (Spring) (2023)
Dir. Wang Bing
Teenagers forced to grow up quickly and spend their prime years wiling away at garment factories sounds like a grim…
The Lying Life of Adults
Based on a novel, The Lying Life of Adults might feel, at first, like a standard Netflix coming-of-age series, complete…
The Woman in the Wall
On the surface, The Woman in the Wall is immediately scary. It’s riddled with jumpscares, shrieks, haunting Latin songs, blood-hued…
Tell Me That You Love Me
Dir. Kim Yoon-jin
Romantic relationships can come and go, but sometimes, one partner comes along and irrevocably changes your life forever. Tell Me…
Cigarette Girl
Dir. Ifa Isfansyah & Kamila Andini
Netflix is no stranger to adapting novels, nor to period dramas – Cigarette Girl is one of many, but it’s…
Like Flowers in Sand
Dir. Kim Jin-woo
Do we need to convince you about the spectacle of half naked, handsome, buff men wrestling? Like Flowers in Sand…
Trial by Fire
Dir. Avani Deshpande & Prashant Nair
Tragedy can strike at any time, but some instances are preventable, and rare is the instance where people do seek…
Metallic Rouge
Dir. Yutaka Izubuchi
With most of early January 2024’s slate focused on fantasy, Metallic Rouge is a fairly decent cyberpunk refresher. With fantastic,…
A Nearly Normal Family
Any parent would defend their kid in court, though, sometimes it depends on the case. A Nearly Normal Family brings…
Detective Forst
Dir. Daniel Jaroszek
Detective Forst isn’t a mindbending, totally original crime thriller that would revolutionize the detective genre, but sometimes we just want…
The Gene of AI
In a world acclimated to the technological advancements and integration of AI, Sudo Hikaru offers illegal medical procedures in the…
Afire (2023)
Dir. Christian Petzold
There’s something rich at the heart of Afire that, whether intentionally or not, is kept at arm’s length from the…
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