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Rock Springs (2026) EDIT “Miao has a brisk, tingling command of atmosphere, and if she occasionally seems still in search of a style all her own, this promising debut has a human touch and point of view that are rather more distinctive within the genre.” – Variety Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Frank & Louis (2026) 87% EDIT “For stars Rob Morgan and Kingsley Ben-Adir, meanwhile, it’s a pleasingly patient and generous showcase: Both give performances of exquisite composure, with roiling anguish beneath the stillness.” – Variety Jan 26, 2026 Full Review zi (2026) EDIT “If the film weren’t so arresting to look at, it could often be absorbed with eyes closed: If its larger message is elusive, “Zi” advocates for taking the world in at your own sensory pace.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Musical (2026) EDIT “A Tony-winning stage actor who has long been a trusty indie ensemble player, Brill seizes his most substantial film role to date with sneering relish.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review One in a Million (2026) EDIT “One in a Million is one of those close-quarters character-study docs filmed with such intimate fluidity that you almost forget the complexities of inserting a camera in this fraught domestic space.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Lady (2026) EDIT “In some ways, Nwosu’s script subverts expectations. In others, it traces a classic, bittersweet arc of growth and self-realization even when plans are thrown off course. ” – Variety Jan 23, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 75% EDIT “What keeps things diverting, and sometimes even interesting, is the genuine but necessarily tentative chemistry between its stars, one staging an all-out charm offensive and the other projecting a flintier allure. ” – Variety Jan 9, 2026 Full Review David (2025) 76% EDIT “A proficient family entertainment that’s nonetheless a little too precision-engineered to feel truly stirring. Faith, “David” has in spades; soul, not so much.” – Variety Dec 23, 2025 Full Review The Outrun (2024) 82% EDIT “As an inward study of self-redemption, however, The Outrun has a defiant, angular power – and, in Ronan, the right actor to convey it. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) 97% EDIT “Once Dantès’s daft, years-in-the-making prison break gets under way, however, it’s off to the races, as the film breathlessly fills its three hours with so much domino-stacked incident that we scarcely have a moment to think about it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% EDIT “The film never quite locates the heart, in large part because it never cracks its collective of variously dissatisfied characters -- all of whom want for interior life and detail beyond their present unhappy circumstances.” – Variety Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Remake (2025) EDIT ““Remake” is extraordinarily clear-eyed for a work so broken-hearted.” – Variety Dec 9, 2025 Full Review When a River Becomes the Sea (2025) EDIT ““When a River Becomes the Sea” sets out to be an imposing and even testing work, but it’s also an emotionally involving one -- warmed by the intimately drawn relationship between Gaia and her desperately aggrieved single father.” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Yakushima's Illusion (2025) EDIT ““Yakushima’s Illusion” can feel structurally fussy... But it’s genuinely moving, in large part because Krieps’ performance gives it such a steady, stoic undertow of unspoken sorrow.” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Mortician (2025) EDIT “It’s a premise that leans toward dystopian satire, but Kahani plays it mostly straight and humane, albeit with flickers of dry behavioral humor as this awkwardly matched pair gradually grow to understand each other.” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review On the Sea (2025) EDIT ““On the Sea” may not set out to surprise, but it traces the expected, anguished coming-out arc with rare honesty and frank, bristly sensual abandon -- both actors committing with equal parts vulnerable yearning and terse emotional avoidance. ” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review In-I In Motion (2025) EDIT “The documentary affords viewers raw access to the creation process, and the rare fascination of watching two leading artists at times out of their depth, figuring out new dimensions to their craft on the hoof, so to speak.” – Variety Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Ice Storm (1997) 86% EDIT “It’s breath-catchingly pained and delicate in articulating estrangements and losses, aggravated by a November cold snap so tangibly felt in Frederick Elmes’s crisp, brittle cinematography and the icicle-tapping tones of Mychael Danna’s score.” – Observer (UK) Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Juror #2 (2024) 93% EDIT “It’s hardly the most vigorous filmmaking of his career, but it’s been a while since Eastwood – albeit in his typically brisk, terse fashion – had quite this much to say.” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “Eddington strikes me as the US film of the year: a powder keg and a time capsule reflective of a senseless moment in time. May its cultish second life begin now.” – Observer (UK) Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% EDIT “Delivering repackaged goods with a soldierly sense of duty, Gladiator II could stand to go a little more off-kilter. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Here (2024) 36% EDIT “Rather than a paean to the passage of ordinary life, it becomes a relentlessly extraordinary imitation of reality, offering much to gawk at but little to feel.” – Sight & Sound Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Belén (2025) 95% EDIT “ “Belén” might never regain the vivid rage and terror of its opening minutes, but Fonzi’s film ends up carrying viewers on its own wave of pride and upright conviction, ultimately delivering the hope its promises.” – Variety Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Winter of the Crow (2025) EDIT “Manville carries the film with an air of increasingly raw determination... It’s bracing to see the star at the centre of a story that would more commonly take the form of a wrong-man noir.” – Variety Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Bulk (2025) 83% EDIT “There’s more energy and wit in this hybrid of conspiracy thriller, time-bending sci-fi and goofy genre parody than we’ve seen from the director in a while.” – Variety Oct 27, 2025 Full Review
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