Poetry in an Age of Missiles

Poetry in an Age of Missiles

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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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My Year in Books
A loosely ranked list of books I read in 2024
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The Best Music of 2024
According to Me
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Blitz
“Blitz” is a film that’s easy to take for granted.
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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…
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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…
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Dream Team
Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn’s “Dream Team” is what you might call a “vibes” movie.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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