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critic Supergirl

Supergirl Review: Milly Alcock Soars While the Script Stalls

★★★☆☆ 3/5

Milly Alcock's fierce Kara Zor-El and Jason Momoa's scene-stealing Lobo lift a DCU entry that critics find uneven but audiences largely embrace.

Worth seeing for Alcock and Momoa — just manage blockbuster expectations.

critic The Godfather

The Godfather (1972) Review: Why Coppola's Crime Epic Still Reigns Supreme

★★★★★ 5/5

Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 masterpiece turns a mafia saga into the definitive story of American power, family, and corruption — and more than 50 years on, it has never been surpassed.

An essential, five-star cornerstone of cinema — the American crime epic every other has been measured against since.

critic Toy Story 5

Toy Story 5 Review: Pixar's Toys vs. the Tablet Era

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Andrew Stanton sends Woody and Buzz up against a screen-obsessed kid and a frog-shaped tablet, and Pixar finds fresh heart in the oldest fear in the franchise.

Celluloid Pick family viewing — the year's biggest animated event.

critic Young Washington

Young Washington Review: Revolution on the Fourth of July

★★★☆☆ 3/5

Jon Erwin's French and Indian War origin story finds a charismatic George Washington in William Franklyn-Miller, even when the history turns into musket-firing spectacle.

A patriotic crowd-pleaser that critics find uneven — audiences disagree.

critic Caught by the Tides

Caught by the Tides Review: Jia Zhangke's Memory Palace of a Changing China

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Assembled from two decades of Jia Zhangke's own footage, this drifting portrait of love and displacement finds Tao Zhao aging alongside a nation in flux.

Essential viewing for anyone who believes cinema can hold time.

critic Come See Me in the Good Light

Come See Me in the Good Light Review: Love Facing Mortality With Grace

★★★★★ 5/5

Ryan White documents poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing terminal illness with humor and unguarded affection—earned tears, not sentiment.

The year's most honest love story is a documentary.

critic Cover-Up

Cover-Up Review: Seymour Hersh and the Moral Architecture of Investigative Journalism

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Mark Obenhaus traces Seymour Hersh's decades of unwelcome scoops in a documentary that doubles as a masterclass in why dogged reporting still matters.

Essential for anyone who cares about truth in an age of noise.

critic Deaf President Now!

Deaf President Now! Review: A Landmark Documentary of Deaf Resistance

★★★★★ 5/5

DiMarco reconstructs the 1988 Gallaudet protests with formal inventiveness that puts deaf perspective at the center of its own historic telling.

Essential history, told with the urgency it deserves.

critic Eephus

Eephus Review: A Shaggy Elegy for Small-Town Baseball

★★★★★ 5/5

Lund stretches one last amateur ballgame into a shaggy elegy for small-town ritual, finding poignancy in the sport's dead time and enduring friendships.

Patient, shaggy, and unexpectedly moving — if you meet it on its own clock.

critic Ghostlight

Ghostlight Review: Community Theater Becomes a Lifeline for Grief

★★★★☆ 4.2/5

Kelly O'Sullivan's Chicago drama turns a real family cast into something rare — a grief story that earns its Shakespeare without a single false note.

Celluloid Pick and deeply human.

critic Good One

Good One Review: A Camping Trip Where Every Silence Cuts

★★★½☆ 3.9/5

India Donaldson's piercing debut turns a Catskills backpacking trip into a quiet study of how fathers fail their daughters.

A sharp debut that splits audiences and rewards patience.

critic His Three Daughters

His Three Daughters Review: Three Sisters, One Apartment, No Escape

★★★★☆ 4.1/5

Azazel Jacobs traps Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon in a dying father's apartment — and the claustrophobia is the whole point.

Ensemble drama at its most precise.

critic Holy Cow

Holy Cow Review: Rural Cheesemaking and Unexpected Sweetness

★★★★☆ 4.2/5

Louise Courvoisier finds unexpected sweetness in a teenager's clumsy attempt to hold his family together after his father's death.

A gentle French masterwork hiding in plain sight.

critic It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: A Restless Spirit, Fully Rendered

★★★½☆ 3.8/5

Amy Berg's intimate portrait of Jeff Buckley's brief, restless career mourns without wallowing, anchored by home recordings and unguarded interviews.

The definitive Buckley documentary — finally.

critic LaRoy, Texas

LaRoy, Texas Review: John Magaro in a Small-Town Noir of Mistaken Identity

★★★½☆ 3.5/5

Shane Atkinson wrings dark comedy from mistaken identity, with John Magaro's hapless lead giving LaRoy, Texas the jittery energy of small-town noir.

Modest but sharply entertaining indie noir.

critic Lesbian Space Princess

Lesbian Space Princess Review: Lo-Fi Animation With a Big Queer Heart

★★★½☆ 3.5/5

Leela Varghese's gleefully lo-fi animated romp turns a breakup rescue mission into giddy sci-fi comedy that never outruns its sincerity.

Messy, horny, sincere — and proudly so.

critic Little Trouble Girls

Little Trouble Girls Review: Desire in a Convent Choir

★★★½☆ 3.9/5

Urška Djukić sets a shy teenager's first stirrings of desire against a convent choir retreat — piety and longing in quiet friction.

A quietly charged Slovenian coming-of-age gem.

critic LOLA

LOLA Review: A Wartime Sci-Fi That Curdles Beautifully

★★★½☆ 3.6/5

Andrew Legge's found-footage WWII sci-fi asks what two sisters would do with a radio that hears tomorrow — and the answer turns alarming.

Inventive, chilly, and divisive in the best way.

critic Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore Review: A Deaf Icon on Her Own Terms

★★★★☆ 4/5

Shoshannah Stern's insider portrait lets Marlee Matlin speak for herself, avoiding hagiography while honoring a groundbreaking career.

Essential viewing on Deaf representation and resilience.

critic Megadoc

Megadoc Review: Coppola's Obsession, Unfiltered

★★★½☆ 3.7/5

Mike Figgis turns Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis gamble into a riveting study of creative hubris and self-financed ambition.

Essential for anyone who cares how movies get made.

critic Minions & Monsters

Minions & Monsters Review: Illumination's Love Letter to Hollywood Horror

★★★★☆ 4/5

The Minions crash a monster-movie lot in the year's most affectionate animated comedy — funny, fast, and surprisingly sincere about classic Hollywood craft.

The best Minions movie since the original — ideal family viewing with genuine cinephile Easter eggs.

critic Molli and Max in the Future

Molli and Max in the Future Review: DIY Sci-Fi Romance With Real Gravity

★★★½☆ 3.5/5

Michael Lukk Litwak's lo-fi cosmic rom-com proves charm beats budget, though its 175-minute sprawl tests even patient viewers.

Inventive, uneven, and genuinely romantic.

critic No Other Choice

No Other Choice Review: Park Chan-wook's Unemployment Nightmare

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Lee Byung-hun gleefully unravels as a laid-off company man in Park Chan-wook's pitch-black comedy — unemployment anxiety turned into a musical nightmare.

Dark, daring, and darkly funny.

critic Nowhere Special

Nowhere Special Review: James Norton's Quiet Devastation

★★★★★ 5/5

Pasolini resists melodrama, trusting Norton's tender performance to carry a dying father's impossible search for his son's future family.

A weepie that earns every tear through restraint.

critic On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Review: Rungano Nyoni's Devastating Zambian Satire

★★★★★ 5/5

Nyoni folds dark family secrets into wry, surreal Zambian funeral satire—confirming her gift for finding pointed comedy inside grief.

A bold, uncomfortable, and brilliantly controlled second feature.

critic Robot Dreams

Robot Dreams Review: A Wordless Friendship That Will Break Your Heart

★★★★☆ 4.3/5

Pablo Berger's silent animated gem about a dog and his robot companion says more about friendship and loss than most films manage with dialogue.

A modern animated classic — bring tissues.

critic Secret Mall Apartment

Secret Mall Apartment Review: The Ultimate Mall Rat Documentary

★★★★☆ 4.1/5

Jeremy Workman turns an absurd Rhode Island squat into a sharp, affectionate critique of consumerist sprawl and DIY ingenuity.

Funny, smart, and sneakily subversive.

critic Souleymane's Story

Souleymane's Story Review: A Desperate Race Through Paris

★★★★★ 5/5

Lojkine follows a delivery cyclist's frantic asylum deadline with urgent handheld immediacy, turning bureaucratic dread into pure cinematic tension.

A thriller where the clock is immigration policy — and it never stops ticking.

critic The Crime Is Mine

The Crime Is Mine Review: Ozon's Parisian Farce Has Huppert and Style to Spare

★★★½☆ 3.8/5

François Ozon's 1930s murder farce pairs gorgeous production design with Isabelle Huppert in scene-stealing form — frothy, fun, and slightly slight.

Stylish entertainment that critics prefer to audiences.

critic The Perfect Neighbor

The Perfect Neighbor Review: Bodycam Footage Becomes a Stand Your Ground Horror Story

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Geeta Gandbhir assembles bodycam and interrogation footage into a slow-burning indictment of Florida's stand your ground culture without ever raising its voice.

Devastating true-crime cinema with civic urgency.

critic The Plague

The Plague Review: A Boys' Camp Becomes a Pressure Cooker

★★★★★ 5/5

Charlie Polinger transforms a 2003 swim camp into a nightmare of cruelty and shame — Joel Edgerton anchors a debut that critics call near-perfect.

Queasy, precise, and unforgettable.

critic The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent Review: Wagner Moura in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Brazilian Paranoia Epic

★★★★★ 5/5

Kleber Mendonça Filho folds pulpy genre thrills into a pointed reckoning with Brazil's dictatorship years, anchored by Wagner Moura's haunted performance.

A sprawling political thriller that earns its ambitions.

critic The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot Review: DreamWorks Delivers Pixar-Level Heart

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Christopher Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's novel pairs lush animation with Lupita Nyong'o's voice work in a survival story that earns every tear.

Essential family viewing — a modern animated masterpiece.

critic Thelma