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There’s something quietly magical about a documentary that doesn’t try to dazzle you, but instead invites you in like a warm bowl of something familiar. The Golden Spurtle isn’t loud, flashy, or world…
We’ve all been there — that bittersweet moment when you reconnect with an old friend. Maybe it’s someone you thought you’d never lose touch with, someone who once felt like your closest ally through l…
It’s rather strange to think of the video store as extinct. For American filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry, the video store’s death knell coincided well before the 2012 release of This Means War; where…
There’s a quiet intensity to Scrap that sneaks up on you. At first glance, it might seem like another indie drama following a woman through a rough patch in Los Angeles, but this film is so much more…
The blazing opening scene of the McManus Brothers’ science fiction thriller Redux Redux promises a white-knuckle ride: a promise that it keeps while revealing a deep sense of humanity and longing whic…
Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, Donne-moi un Titre) is a sweet and imaginative film about the intersection of art and parenthood. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry combines a s…
There’s something quietly shattering about GEN_, something that lodges under your skin and hums there for days. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese, this deeply intimate documentary slips past rhetoric and…
New Year’s Eve 1999 and anaesthetist Minnie (Emily Browning) starts her day with a reminder that she’s not got her life together in the manner she thought she would have. Her patient in obstetrics tur…
Exit 8 is an inventive and repetitive exercise in expanding what was once a simple video game into a character-driven psychological horror. Based on the 2023 adventure game The Exit 8 by developer Kot…
First Light is an astonishing debut feature from acclaimed Australian photographer James J. Robinson, and a film perfectly placed in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Bright Horizons competi…
She Rides Shotgun isn’t your typical action thriller, and thank god for that. It’s not flashy or overstuffed with gunfire just for the sake of spectacle. Instead, it’s grounded — raw, even — and it hi…
There’s a special kind of horror that doesn’t scream or slash—it creeps up on you in the form of unchecked ambition, of algorithms, of the unshakable feeling that someone’s always watching. Kiyoshi Ku…