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Is This Thing On?, Good Valley Stories
On new films from Bradley Cooper and José Luis Guerin
Jan 15 • Eric Zhu
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch, 2025), Where to Land (Hal Hartley, 2025)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch, 2025):
Jan 9 • Eric Zhu
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
Although Terence Davies would continue to direct singularly lyrical features over the course of his four decade career, the tender, autobiographical…
Jan 6 • Eric Zhu
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Where to Land: The Best Films of 2025
Dec 25, 2025 • Eric Zhu
The Insert July 2025: The Best Films of the Year (thus far)
Jun 30, 2025 • Eric Zhu
"Your Being Manipulated": On Ari Aster's Eddington
Jul 18, 2025 • Eric Zhu
The Best Films of 2024
Dec 30, 2024 • Eric Zhu
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg, 2024)
Apr 28, 2025 • Eric Zhu
The Hills are Alive: On Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us
Jul 10, 2025 • Eric Zhu
Where to Land: The Best Films of 2025
The Year in Review
Dec 25, 2025 • Eric Zhu
Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron, 2025)
The third entry in James Cameron’s record-setting Avatar franchise is an exciting, if familiar retread of 2022’s The Way of Water.
Dec 16, 2025 • Eric Zhu
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
or Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Dec 1, 2025 • Eric Zhu
EOY: Afternoons of Solitude
On Albert Serra's Cahiers-topping bullfighting doc
Nov 29, 2025 • Eric Zhu
EOY Roundup #2: Nouvelle Vague, Collective Monologue
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater):
Nov 19, 2025 • Eric Zhu
EOY Roundup #1: Peter Hujar's Day, Die My Love
On new films by Ira Sachs and Lynne Ramsay
Nov 12, 2025 • Eric Zhu
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025)
Up to this point, one of the quirks of Yorgos Lanthimos’ cinema has been his aversion to the contemporary.
Oct 31, 2025 • Eric Zhu
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