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    February 28, 2025
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    February 3, 2025
    Asog — Sean Devlin [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874 — Ali Ray [Review]
    March 28, 2025
    The Heirloom — Ben Petrie [Review]
    March 28, 2025
    Secret Mall Apartment — Jeremy Workman [Review]
    March 21, 2025
    Final Destination Bloodlines — Adam B. Stein & Zach Lipovsky [Review]
    May 16, 2025
    Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning — Christopher McQuarrie [Review]
    May 14, 2025
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    May 1, 2025
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    April 30, 2025
    Hurry Up Tomorrow — Trey Edward Shults [Review]
    May 19, 2025
    Clown in a Cornfield — Eli Craig [Review]
    May 7, 2025
    Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse — Isaac Ezban [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    Wake Up — Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    Friendship — Andrew DeYoung [Review]
    May 9, 2025
    On Swift Horses — Daniel Minahan [Review]
    April 30, 2025
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    April 30, 2025
    The Wedding Banquet — Andrew Ahn [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    Havoc — Gareth Evans [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    Bullet Train Explosion — Shinji Higuchi [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    April ’25 Animal Docs: Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey, Sea Lions of the Galapagos, & Pets [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    Not Just a Goof — Eric Kimelton & Christopher Ninness [Review]
    April 30, 2025
    When Fall is Coming — François Ozon [Review]
    April 30, 2025
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    April 17, 2025
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    March 28, 2025
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    March 21, 2025
    Hurry Up Tomorrow — Trey Edward Shults [Review]
    May 19, 2025
    Final Destination Bloodlines — Adam B. Stein & Zach Lipovsky [Review]
    May 16, 2025
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    May 9, 2025
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    May 19, 2025
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    The Instinctual Lurches of Desire: André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds
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    A World Governed by Inflexible Order: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Innocence
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    Traditional Satire with a Humanist Impulse: Eugene Kotlyarenko on The Code
    May 23, 2025
    Sex, Power, and Gaudy Decor: Josef von Sternberg’s Scarlet Empress
    May 21, 2025
    War is Purgatory: An Interview with Roberto Minervini
    May 20, 2025
    The Lives That We All Share: An Interview with Jia Zhangke
    May 9, 2025
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  • Music Archives
- by Caleb Hammond

Traditional Satire with a Humanist Impulse: Eugene Kotlyarenko on The Code

Eugene Kotlyarenko is a filmmaker…

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- by InRO Staff

Cannes Film Festival 2025 — Dispatch 2: Eddington, The Little Sister, Militantropos

Eddington When the world turned…

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- by Andrew Reichel

Sex, Power, and Gaudy Decor: Josef von Sternberg’s Scarlet Empress

Josef von Sternberg always had…

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- by Zach Lewis

War is Purgatory: An Interview with Roberto Minervini

The soldiers of Roberto Minervini’s…

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- by InRO Staff

Cannes Film Festival 2025 — Dispatch 1: Sound of Falling, Two Prosecutors, I Only Rest in the Storm

Sound of Falling Melancholy, that…

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- by Andrew Dignan

Hurry Up Tomorrow — Trey Edward Shults [Review]

Credit where it’s due: Hurry…

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Hurry Up Tomorrow — Trey Edward Shults [Review]

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Final Destination Bloodlines — Adam B. Stein & Zach Lipovsky [Review]

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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning — Christopher McQuarrie [Review]

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Friendship — Andrew DeYoung [Review]

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Festival Coverage

Cannes Film Festival 2025 — Dispatch 2: Eddington, The Little Sister, Militantropos

May 22, 2025 - by InRO Staff

Eddington When the world turned to shit approximately five years ago, satire marched ahead, determined to outpace the banality of lived reality. Old-school broadcasts and…

Eddington — Ari Aster [Cannes ’25 Review]
May 22, 2025
The Little Sister — Hafsia Herzi [Cannes ’25 Review]
May 22, 2025
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk — Sepideh Farsi [Cannes ’25 Review]
May 22, 2025
Girl on Edge — Jinghau Zhou [Cannes ’25 Review]
May 22, 2025

Interviews

Traditional Satire with a Humanist Impulse: Eugene Kotlyarenko on The Code

May 23, 2025 - by Caleb Hammond
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War is Purgatory: An Interview with Roberto Minervini

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The Lives That We All Share: An Interview with Jia Zhangke

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April Releases

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Freaky Tales — Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden [Review]

Zero — Jean Luc Herbulot [Review]

Sacramento — Michael Angarano [Review]

The Uninvited — Nadia Conners [Review]

Asog — Sean Devlin [Review]

The Ugly Stepsister — Emilie Blichfeldt [Review]

April ’25 Animal Docs: Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey, Sea Lions of the Galapagos, & Pets [Review]

Queens of Drama — Alexis Langlois [Review]

Striking Rescue — Siyu Cheng [Review]

The Wedding Banquet — Andrew Ahn [Review]

iHostage — Bobby Boermans [Review]

On Swift Horses — Daniel Minahan [Review]

Magic Farm — Amalia Ulman [Review]

Bullet Train Explosion — Shinji Higuchi [Review]

Tendaberry — Haley Elizabeth Anderson [Review]

G20 — Patricia Riggen [Review]

One to One: John & Yoko — Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards [Review]

A Ghost in New York: Chantal Akerman’s News from Home

Warfare — Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza [Review]

Sinners — Ryan Coogler [Review]

The Shrouds — David Cronenberg [Review]

The Accountant 2 — Gavin O’Connor [Review]

Havoc — Gareth Evans [Review]

Hell of a Summer — Billy Bryk & Finn Wolfhard [Review]

When Fall is Coming — François Ozon [Review]

Eric Larue — Michael Shannon [Review]

825 Forest Road — Stephen Cognetti [Review]

The Luckiest Man in America — Samir Oliveros [Review]

Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse — Isaac Ezban [Review]

Wake Up — Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell [Review]

A Minecraft Movie — Jared Hess [Review]

The Legend of Ochi — Isaiah Saxon [Review]

Feature Articles

Sex, Power, and Gaudy Decor: Josef von Sternberg’s Scarlet Empress

May 21, 2025 - by Andrew Reichel
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Something Like Hamlet: Revolution and Ivan the Terrible

April 16, 2025 - by Milo Garner
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What Kind of Tony Are You: On an Insignificant Character in Alex Garland’s Civil War

April 10, 2025 - by Tony Yang
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A Sequence of Hackings: James Benning’s Breathless

April 9, 2025 - by Dan Ziegler
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Kicking the Canon

The Instinctual Lurches of Desire: André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds

May 16, 2025 - by Chris Cassingham

Coming-of-age films are rarely as frank about the relationship between sex and politics as André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds. The film traces the lives of students…

Birth of the Cool: Takeshi Kitano’s Violent Cop
May 14, 2025
A World Governed by Inflexible Order: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Innocence
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Possession’s Inevitable Violence: Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing
April 8, 2025
A Ghost in New York: Chantal Akerman’s News from Home
April 4, 2025

Monthly Roundups

April 2025 — Reviews Roundup

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