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A New Love in Tokyo (1994) EDIT “While honesty dictates that this movie, directed by Banmei Takahashi, be classified first and foremost as erotica, it is erotica that finds room for real sweetness and intellectual pretensions along with its kink.” – New York Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Deepfaking Sam Altman (2025) 91% EDIT “Give Bhala Lough credit: His film simultaneously illustrates the deficiencies of generative A.I. and the dangers of investing in it emotionally, while remaining annoying and self-amused in a distinctly human way. ” – New York Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “When “Dead Man’s Wire” ends with footage of the real Kiritsis and Hall, it is hard not to conclude that a much crazier, livelier film could have been made.” – New York Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “It’s a wondrous interlude, and Jarmusch at his best.” – New York Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “Visually, this widescreen film is a virtuoso exercise in (mostly) single-location filmmaking. ” – New York Times Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The King of Color (2025) EDIT “One interviewee suggests that Herbert has had a greater impact than Steve Jobs or Ray Kroc; he just isn’t as widely known. “The King of Color,” directed by Patrick Creadon (“Wordplay”), aims to offer a corrective. ” – New York Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Happy Holidays (2024) 94% EDIT “The movie favors an unflashy presentation that allows its themes to emerge organically.” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Teenage Wasteland (2025) 100% EDIT “This crowd-pleasing documentary, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, caters to multiple niches of moviegoer who enjoy rooting for the underdog.” – New York Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Age of Disclosure (2025) 27% EDIT “Question the film and you’re a chump, it implies. But anyone who sits through its nearly two hours of unprovable claims is a chump of a different sort.” – New York Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Things You Kill (2025) 95% EDIT “Debts to Luis Buñuel and David Lynch are obvious, but “The Things You Kill” has its own way of getting inside its protagonist’s head space — and yours.” – New York Times Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “Nuremberg struggles to make dramatic sense of an even denser mass of material.” – New York Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Caterpillar (2023) 100% EDIT “Some of what Mandelup captures is the result of sharp observation, and some of it is incredible chance. ” – New York Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Coexistence, My Ass! (2025) 92% EDIT “The film leaves the impression that, sadly, comedy may be one of the only paths to peace left in the region.” – New York Times Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) 93% EDIT “While some of the intra-family chats can seem self-indulgent or repetitive, there is real poignancy in hearing Amy, an actress herself, talk about the years she waited tables while her brother was becoming famous.” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Köln 75 (2025) 88% EDIT “A movie that’s a little too eager to be liked. But it’s also tough to resist.” – New York Times Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (2024) 90% EDIT “Its subject is not only the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also how the news was mediated for Swedish viewers by a dominant broadcaster with a mandate for impartiality.” – New York Times Oct 9, 2025 Full Review The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (2025) 81% EDIT “It would be easy to dismiss the movie’s perspective as limited and jingoistic, but “The Road Between Us” never pretends to offer more than an in-the-moment chronicle of a violent clash. ” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Are We Good? (2025) 97% EDIT “Maron comes across as someone with a well-hidden tender side. His work ethic, which finds him still doing standup when he could be hiding from audiences, is impressive. Like it or not, Maron is putting himself out there. ” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review French Lover (2025) EDIT “It’s an open question as to whom the film insults the most: the principals; the public; or you, the viewer, from whom so little has been demanded. ” – New York Times Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Predators (2025) 97% EDIT “What gives the documentary an added edge is that the director implicates himself in the proceedings. ” – New York Times Sep 19, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% EDIT “While the film has clear affection for its Baltimore locations, considerably less thought has gone into creating convincing situations for those backdrops.” – New York Times Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Stranger Eyes (2024) 82% EDIT “Always intriguing, “Stranger Eyes” proves stronger on concept than coherence. Perhaps the loose ends are Yeo’s way of suggesting that a film director, too, lacks omniscience.” – New York Times Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% EDIT “Covino and Marvin continue to forge a distinct comic sensibility — and, what’s rarer these days, they know how to make the camera work for the humor. ” – New York Times Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Americana (2025) 63% EDIT “A slick and skillful debut feature from the writer-director Tony Tost.” – New York Times Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Sketch (2024) 95% EDIT “While the children are permitted a measure of psychology, the older characters, especially Amber and Jack’s mopey, klutzy father (overplayed by Tony Hale), are treated as earnest mouthpieces for the story’s morals. ” – New York Times Aug 7, 2025 Full Review
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