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March 27, 2026
The ‘Dhurandhar’ Duology Review: A Pair of Vicious Action Blockbusters Cement Bollywood’s Bleak Transformation
Upon its December release, Aditya Dhar’s gloomy espionage thriller “Dhurandhar” went on to become the highest grossing Hindi-language film in India. Now in cinemas, its follow-up “Dhurandhar: The R...
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March 18, 2026
‘Brian’ Review: A Hilarious High-School Comedy With Dark Jokes and Multiple Meltdowns
Whether for relatability, or digestibility, the American coming-of-age genre tends to focus on broadly awkward characters with mild social anxiety. Will Ropp’s feature debut “Brian” makes that idea...
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March 17, 2026
‘Wishful Thinking’ Review: Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke Lead a Kooky, Enthralling Romantic Fantasy
The tale of a young couple of whose collective mood manifests in the world around them, “Wishful Thinking” sounds quirky and cutesy on paper. However, the feature debut by Graham Parkes is somethin...
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March 16, 2026
‘DreamQuil’ Review: A Satirical Sci-Fi Soap Opera That Doesn’t Fully Connect
Alex Prager’s debut “DreamQuil” film of whip-smart design that ends up with little to say. Its retro-futuristic setting draws heavily from the 1950s but combines numerous contemporary concerns, res...
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March 15, 2026
‘The Saviors’ Review: A Passable But Timely Genre Mystery Rooted In Islamophobic Fears
A timely dark comedy wrapped in Islamophobic paranoia, Kevin Hamedani’s “The Saviors” has genre twists and turns that ultimately lose steam, but they retain enough symbolic meaning to avoid falling...
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March 15, 2026
‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ Review: A Gentle, Rigorous Queer Coming-of-Age Story
A queer coming-of-age story set in rural New Zealand, Paloma Schneideman’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” is a fantastic feature debut atypical of films on awkward adolescence. Unfolding during an overcast ...
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March 14, 2026
‘#WhileBlack’ Review: A Scattered Documentary on Filming Police Brutality
A documentary about citizen journalism in the digital age, Jennifer Holness and Sidney Fussell’s “#WhileBlack” uses, as its foundation, stories of police violence from the last decade — namely, the...
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March 14, 2026
‘Pretty Lethal’ Review: A Ballet Action Romp With Limited Imagination
What if an American ballerina quintet was dropped into a mob flick in Central Europe? Director Vicky Jewson answers this question in “Pretty Lethal,” at first with aplomb, but eventually with all t...
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March 12, 2026
‘Baby/Girls’ Review: A Gentle Documentary on Teen Pregnancy With Some Strange AI Artifacts
If you could break down the documentary form to a simple formula, it might read something like “Time + Access.” Those are the advantages enjoyed by Alyse Walsh and Jackie Jesko’s “Baby/Girls,” whic...
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February 21, 2026
‘Chronicles From the Siege’ Review: Vignettes of Desperation on the Front Lines Deepen the Depiction of Palestinian Lives
Several interconnected vignettes make up “Chronicles From the Siege,” Abdallah Alkhatib’s harrowing, poignant, sometimes darkly hilarious dispatch from the frontlines of a violent blitz. The drama ...
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February 19, 2026
‘The Loneliest Man in Town’ Review: An Aging Austrian Musician Plays Himself Playing the Blues in a Quietly Moving Portrait
A work of gently enveloping drama that draws from reality, “The Loneliest Man in Town” sees long-time DIY creative pair Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel following and dramatizing the twilight years of...
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February 17, 2026
‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ Review: A Modest True Crime Doc Where the Answers Are Out in the Open
A film of deceptive simplicity, Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’s investigative documentary “Who Killed Alex Odeh?” often struggles against its own straightforward style, but in the process, e...
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February 17, 2026
‘My Wife Cries’ Review: A Wry Relationship Drama Whose Delights Don’t Always Cohere
Angela Schanelec’s wry relationship drama “My Wife Cries” is filled with lengthy conversations delivered in dry, sardonic tones, which secretly brim with withheld emotion. The tale of a couple grow...
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February 17, 2026
‘Queen at Sea’ Review: Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay Lead a Gentle, Shattering Drama About Dementia and Autonomy
“Queen at Sea,” Lance Hammer’s first feature in 18 years, is a work of shattering gentleness and harrowing ethical dilemmas. Navigating such thorny topics as consent and autonomy in the throes of d...
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February 15, 2026
‘Dust’ Review: A Stylish Saga of Friendship and Fraud That Slowly Plateaus
In Anke Blondé’s latest feature, two friends — middle-aged men in expensive suits — walk in step through offices and banquet halls for much of the first act. You might expect their strides to be sc...
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February 14, 2026
‘Heysel 85’ Review: A Real Soccer Riot Becomes a Tense Political Metaphor
Intense and intently observed, Teodora Ana Mihai’s “Heysel 85” chronicles the eruption of violence before a major soccer match in Brussels. Its setting is the real Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985, ...
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February 13, 2026
‘Yellow Letters’ Review: Germany Plays Turkey in a Stirring and Surprising Political Drama
In the riveting family drama “Yellow Letters,” German-born Turkish director İlker Çatak employs a culturally tilt-shifted backdrop for his tale of authoritarian crackdowns. The film announces, upfr...
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January 28, 2026
‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: A Powerful Documentary Uses Animation and New Interviews to Redraw a Decades-Old Injustice
In Dawn Porter’s powerful documentary “When A Witness Recants,” Ta-Nehisi Coates presents — both as an executive producer and occasional subject — a stirring tale of American injustice, which he re...
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January 27, 2026
‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Review: Andrew Stanton’s Sci-Fi Epic Is One Third of a Good Movie
While presented as a trio of interconnected stories, “In the Blink of an Eye,” the latest film from “WALL-E” and “John Carter” director Andrew Stanton, plays more like three disparate TV series smu...
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January 25, 2026
‘Undertone’ Review: Ian Tuason’s Audio-Driven Horror Debut Screams Technical Proficiency
An immense sense of isolation underscores Ian Tuason’s feature debut, the audio-driven horror smorgasbord “Undertone.” Following an exhausted horror podcast host watching over her mother’s deathbed...
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January 23, 2026
‘Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!’ Review: Rinko Kikuchi Dances Through Grief and Uneven Tones
A cross-cultural tale of grief and dance, Josef Kubota Wladyka’s “Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!” stems from an intimate place, but ends up emotionally inert thanks to its style. Its key strength is a ...
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January 15, 2026
‘Honeyjoon’ Review: A Plain Mother-Daughter Vacation in the Throes of Grief
A tale of withdrawal that feels withdrawn in its telling, Lilian T. Mehrel’s debut “Honeyjoon” traces familial relationships in the wake of loss as a mother and daughter find their way back to one ...
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