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Top Films of 2025
Every year, I go into the month of December determined to keep my list of the year’s best movies limited to only ten picks.
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Three by Jerzy Skolimowski
EO (2022), The Shout (1978), and Deep End (1970)
Dec 7, 2025
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Michael Clawson
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Materialists (Celine Song, 2025)
On one hand, Celine Song’s sophomore feature repeatedly pulled me in through its lead actress, the always appealing Dakota Johnson.
Jul 7, 2025
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Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
A masterpiece from one of Classical Hollywood's finest dramatists.
Jun 24, 2025
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Recent Highlights
Things I've enjoyed from my watching, listening, and reading... in a few pairings.
Jun 21, 2025
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My Year in Books
A loosely ranked list of books I read in 2024
Jan 20, 2025
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Michael Clawson
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The Best Music of 2024
According to Me
Jan 1, 2025
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Michael Clawson
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Blitz
“Blitz” is a film that’s easy to take for granted.
Dec 1, 2024
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Armand
The closest thing to last year’s schoolroom thriller “The Teacher’s Lounge” that 2024 has had to offer, “Armand” is a gloomier kind of parent-teacher…
Nov 11, 2024
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Black Dog
A film of expansive visual power, of so many rolling desert vistas and desolate townscapes coated in metallic gray, “Black Dog” depicts the…
Oct 3, 2024
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Dream Team
Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn’s “Dream Team” is what you might call a “vibes” movie.
Oct 1, 2024
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Michael Clawson
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Measures of a Funeral
Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz has spent the better part of a decade making short and medium-length films as a means of excavating her own…
Sep 27, 2024
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Michael Clawson
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Red Rooms
“Red Rooms” is a striking departure in tone and atmosphere from the one other Pascal Plante film I’ve seen, 2020’s “Nadia Butterfly.” That movie, set…
Sep 21, 2024
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Michael Clawson
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Pictures of Ghosts
In “Pictures of Ghosts,” Kleber Mendonça Filho does for the Brazilian city of Recife what Terence Davies did for Liverpool in “Of Time and the City…
Sep 3, 2024
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