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January 9 2025, 7:45 p.m....

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RASHID MASHRAWI (et al.): FROM GROUND ZERO: STORIES FROM GAZA (2024)

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Self portrait of a genocide

From Ground...

I'M STILL HERE (Walter Salles 2024)

It's now coming to US theaters. It comes to NYC at AMC Lincoln Square 13 Jan. 15, 2025


In California: It opens January 24, 2025 AT AMC Kabuki 8, San...

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BARRY KEOGHAN AND NYKIYA ADAMS IN BIRD

ANDREA ARNOLD: BIRD : (2024)

Order in disorder in the wilds of northern Kent

Andrea Arnold creates a...

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ADRIEN BRODY IN THE BRUTALIST

The current top ten pre-Oscar feature films (as of Jan. 6) according to Gold Derby:

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ANORA was no. 1...

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BIRD (Andrea Arnold 2024). A teen girl wandering a slummy rural area between two parents, searching security that's lacking, naturalism winding up...

[revised review]
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ETHAN HENRISSE, BRANDON WILSON IN NICKEL BOYS

A powerful reshuffling of Colson Whitehead's prizewinning novel

Award winning ...

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ETHAN HENRISSE, BRANDON WILSON IN NICKEL BOYS

A powerful reshuffling of Colson Whitehead's prizewinning novel

Award winning documentary filmmaker...

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NICKEL BOYS (RaMell Ross). See my revised review of this powerful reimagining of the Colson Whitehead novel. The POV shooting somewhat in a Terrence...

More of the French promo for BABYGIRL. The film opens in Paris Wednesday, January 15th:

Early January 2025:

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LOVE SONGS/LES CHANSONS D'AMOUR (Christophe Honoré (2007). On my own DVD. Though Manohla Dargis later called this an "odd,...

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WERNER HERZOG: THEATER OF THOUGHT (2022)

Herzog asks: is it all in our brain? in another of his quick tours of a deep subject

Werner Herzog is...

[French promo for BABYGIRL features pull-quote from TIME "Best film of the year"]

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ROBERT EGGERS: NOSFERATU (2024)

Eggers' world of gorgeous, reverent scares

Robert Eggers (The Witch, 2015; The Lighthouse, 2019; The Northman, 2022)...

Continued... (details later)

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BABYGIRL (Halina Reijn 2024). The brilliant new film of a 50-something woman CEO (Nicole Kidman) involved in a highly...

JAMES MANGOLD: A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (2024)

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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET IN A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

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Bob Dylan: the first flowering of a songwriting genius...

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NICOLE KIDMAN, HARRIS DICKINSON IN BABYGIRL

HALINA REIJN BABYGIRL (2024)

A shimmering tale of erotic role reversal is a triumph for Halina Reijn...

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BIRDER (Nate Dushku 2023). A sort of bad, creepy, less cinematic version of Giraudie's many times better STRANGER BY THE LAKE (NYFF 2013). Watched...

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DEMI MOORE IN THE SUBSTANCE

Peter Travers' Ten Best of 2024

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A longtime film criic, Travers reviews on Good Morning. America for ABC. He...

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JOANNA ARNOW IN THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED

From Esquire: 'The 14 Best Sex Movies of 2024'

What is a "sex movie" anyway?...

End of year movie journal, cont'd

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REMEMBER THE NIGHT (Mitchell Leison 1939). Watched this Christmastime rom-com about love and forgiveness penned by...

New New Yorker chief film critic Justin Chang's 2024 best movies list


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MANOLO SOLO IN CLOSE YOUR EYES

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After Brendan Gill (1960-1967) came...

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OF DOGS AND MEN

New York Jewish Film Festival 2025
January 15 - 29, 2025

Midas Man
Joe Stephenson 2024 U.K. 112 minutes
Opening Film | New...

End of the Year 2024 Movie Journal

Not in NYC this time, but watching a bunch of movies I won't have time to review. Part of year's end catch-up and final 2024 releases. Just trying to keep track...

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IndieWire Critics' Poll (177 critics)

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This is a collective opinion, but of people who know a little more about movies and have seen more of...