One Life Anthony Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, the “British Schindler” who rescued 669 Jewish children from the Nazis, alongside Helena Bonham Carter on mighty form.
The film does justice to this overwhelmingly moving event in British public life, capturing a quietly affecting drama.
Richly Enjoyable Documentary
This one charts the rise and fall of a unique alt-cinephile repertory house that inspired countless generations of filmmakers, artists and musicians.
Poor Things
Emma Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance as Bella Baxter, the experimental subject of a troubled Victorian anatomist in Yorgos Lanthimos’s toweringly bizarre comedy. Everything in it – every frame, every image, every joke, every performance – gets a gasp of excitement
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The End We Start From
All too believable disaster drama with Jodie Comer as a young woman whose baby arrives just as environmental crisis begins to break society around her. It is all the more disturbing when the narrative isn’t heading for an abyss of unknowable chaos
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Cantankerous Teacher Gets Lead Role
Alexander Payne’s tale features a cantankerous teacher holed up for Christmas with a wayward teen and the school cook.
Fantasy-Romance Heartwarming Tale
Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott are tremendous in Andrew Haigh’s film about a screenwriter who finds his parents still living at their home despite passing away years before.What superb performances from all four actors; Andrew Haigh brings style to this movie, merging themes from his earlier works Weekend and 45 Years
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The Brutality in The Zone of Interest
A Holocaust film ten years in the making, it has been winning acclaim as one of the most starkly chilling depictions of human brutality ever created. This leading awards contender might just take home the top prize.
Writers Face Off
This adaptation tackles black-victimhood stereotypes with Jeffrey Wright and Issa Rae playing rival writers. Their confrontation reveals the limits of Monk’s blinkered worldview. As director Cord Jefferson explains, it’s easy to start looking at him as a hero, at Sintara as a villain.
Dune Expands Extrordinary World
The second part of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya trying to save Arrakis. It’s another shroom of a film, an epic sci-fi hallucination depicting fascism, guerrilla resistance, and romance.
Meditative Journey Through Eureka
Eureka is described as a complex meditation on Indigenous living through its enigmatic switching gears and perspectives. Viggo Mortensen plays a significant role in this fascinating experimental enigma by Lisandro Alonso.
The Wrestling Saga Unfolds
Zac Efron stars alongside Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson as the Von Erich brothers who were wrestling superstars battered by trauma both inside and outside the ring.
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