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    1. Monthly Roundups
    2. Before We Vanish
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    5. Horizon Line
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    June 2025: Reviews Roundup
    July 2, 2025
    May 2025 — Reviews Roundup
    June 4, 2025
    April 2025 — Reviews Roundup
    May 2, 2025
    March 2025 — Reviews Roundup
    April 4, 2025
    7 Walks with Mark Brown — Pierre Creton, Vincent Barré [Review]
    June 20, 2025
    The Dells — Nellie Kluz [Review]
    June 20, 2025
    Bad Shabbos — Daniel Robbins [Review]
    June 6, 2025
    An Evening Song (for three voices) — Graham Swon [Review]
    May 23, 2025
    Jurassic Park: Rebirth — Gareth Edwards [Review]
    July 3, 2025
    F1 — Joseph Kosinski [Review]
    June 25, 2025
    28 Years Later — Danny Boyle [Review]
    June 20, 2025
    How to Train Your Dragon — Dean DeBlois [Review]
    June 18, 2025
    M3GAN 2.0 — Gerard Johnstone [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    The G — Karl R. Hearne [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    In Vitro — Will Howarth & Tom McKeith [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    Thug Life — Mani Ratnam [Review]
    June 23, 2025
    Sorry, Baby — Eva Victor [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    Hot Milk — Rebecca Lenkiewicz [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    Ponyboi — Esteban Arango [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    Everything’s Going to Be Great — Jon S. Baird [Review]
    June 20, 2025
    Predator: Killer of Killers — Dan Trachtenberg & Joshua Wassung [Review]
    June 16, 2025
    Shifty — Adam Curtis [Review]
    June 13, 2025
    Echo Valley — Michael Pearce [Review]
    June 6, 2025
    Bono: Stories of Surrender — Andrew Dominik [Review]
    May 30, 2025
    Afternoons of Solitude — Albert Serra [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    Meeting with Pol Pot — Rithy Panh [Review]
    June 13, 2025
    Materialists — Celine Song [Review]
    June 12, 2025
    The Life of Chuck — Mike Flanagan [Review]
    June 9, 2025
    Jurassic Park: Rebirth — Gareth Edwards [Review]
    July 3, 2025
    Sorry, Baby — Eva Victor [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    Afternoons of Solitude — Albert Serra [Review]
    June 27, 2025
    M3GAN 2.0 — Gerard Johnstone [Review]
    June 27, 2025
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  • Festival Coverage
    1. 2025 Tribeca Film Festival
    2. 2025 Cannes Film Festival
    3. 2025 New Directors/New Films
    4. 2025 Cinéma du Réel
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    Tribeca Film Festival ’25 — Dispatch 4: The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard, Underland, How to Train Your Dragon
    June 18, 2025
    Tribeca Film Festival ’25 — Dispatch 3: Natchez, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Killer of Killers
    June 16, 2025
    Tribeca Film Festival ’25 — Dispatch 2: Relay, A Bright Future, Gonzo Girl
    June 12, 2025
    Tribeca Film Festival ’25 — Dispatch 1: After This Death, The Travel Companion, Twelve Moons
    June 11, 2025
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  • Kicking the Canon
    1. Film Canon
    2. Album Canon
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    Operatic Emotion & Melodramatic Coincidence: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia
    June 26, 2025
    Take Me There: Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain
    June 24, 2025
    The Movie is Over, the Movie Has Begun: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady
    June 23, 2025
    The Specter of Transaction: Atom Egoyan’s Exotica
    June 13, 2025
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  • Feature Articles
    1. Essays
    2. Interviews
    3. Retrospectives
    4. A Decade Of
    5. Year in Review
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    Man in the Arena: Albert Serra on Afternoons of Solitude
    July 1, 2025
    Wes Anderson Directs: The Itchy and Scratchy Show
    June 27, 2025
    Hopeless Orgy: On Caligula‘s Ultimate Cut
    June 24, 2025
    The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema
    June 19, 2025
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  • Music Archives
- by Matt Lynch

Jurassic Park: Rebirth — Gareth Edwards [Review]

After the vaguely haunted house-esque…

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- by InRO Staff

June 2025: Reviews Roundup

Cannes fatigue is real, and…

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- by Michael Sicinski

Man in the Arena: Albert Serra on Afternoons of Solitude

Following Pacifiction, his seventh and…

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- by Milo Garner

Wes Anderson Directs: The Itchy and Scratchy Show

Socrates: The main question I…

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- by Dhruv Goyal

Operatic Emotion & Melodramatic Coincidence: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia

The purest, and arguably most…

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- by Matt Lynch

F1 — Joseph Kosinski [Review]

Until semi-recently, Formula 1 racing…

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Recent Reviews

Ghost Trail — Jonathan Millet [Review]

May 30, 2025 - by Travis DeShong
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Steppenwolf — Adilkhan Yerzhanov [Review]

May 30, 2025 - by Daniel Gorman
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Bring Her Back — Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou [Review]

May 29, 2025 - by Alexander Mooney
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Fountain of Youth — Guy Ritchie [Review]

May 24, 2025 - by Matt Lynch
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Festival Coverage

First Person Plural — Sandro Aguilar [IFFR ’25 Review]

February 12, 2025 - by Justine Smith

In Sandro Aguilar’s 2015 short film, Undisclosed Recipients, two lovers meet at the Paredes de Coura Festival in Portugal. The night is a liquid black,…

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible — Rajee Samarasinghe [IFFR ’25 Review]
February 12, 2025
The Last Dance — Anselm Chan Mou Yin [IFFR ’25 Review]
February 12, 2025
De Idylle — Aaron Rookus [IFFR ’25 Review]
February 12, 2025
Kajolrekha — Giasuddin Selim [IFFR ’25 Review]
February 12, 2025

Interviews

Movies for a Free Person: A Conversation with the Cast & Crew of The Sweet East

December 2, 2023 - by Conor Truax
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Stitching Realities: An Interview With Eduardo Williams

October 23, 2023 - by Jesse Catherine Webber
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A Contract with the Audience: An Interview with James Benning

October 13, 2023 - by Zach Lewis
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June Releases

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Next Sohee — July Jung

Next Sohee — July Jung [Review]

Bad Shabbos — Daniel Robbins [Review]

I Don’t Understand You — Brian Crano & David Joseph Craig [Review]

11 Rebels — Kazuya Shiraishi [Review]

Sex — Dag Johan Haugerud [Review]

Diablo — Ernesto Díaz Espinoza [Review]

Prime Minister — Michelle Walshe & Lindsay Utz [Review]

Shifty — Adam Curtis [Review]

Killing Mary Sue — James Sunshine [Review]

Echo Valley — Michael Pearce [Review]

The Dells — Nellie Kluz [Review]

Two race car drivers standing side by side and looking off screen.

F1 — Joseph Kosinski [Review]

Hot Milk — Rebecca Lenkiewicz [Review]

M3GAN 2.0 — Gerard Johnstone [Review]

The G — Karl R. Hearne [Review]

In Vitro — Will Howarth & Tom McKeith [Review]

Emmanuelle — Audrey Diwan [Review]

The Ritual — David Midell [Review]

Dangerous Animals — Sean Byrne [Review]

Ponyboi — Esteban Arango [Review]

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire — Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich [Review]

7 Walks with Mark Brown — Pierre Creton, Vincent Barré [Review]

Escape from the 21st Century — Yang Li [Review]

Afternoons of Solitude — Albert Serra [Review]

Familiar Touch — Sarah Friedland [Review]

Meeting with Pol Pot — Rithy Panh [Review]

Sorry, Baby — Eva Victor [Review]

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina — Len Wiseman [Review]

A man in a suit and glasses stands outside at night, illuminated by colorful neon lights and a glowing sign, creating a dramatic, cinematic atmosphere.

The Life of Chuck — Mike Flanagan [Review]

Three well-dressed people pose at an elegant indoor event with white decor, one man in a suit sits, a woman in a blue dress stands center, and another man with a loosened tie stands to the left. A red balloon is on the right.

Materialists — Celine Song [Review]

An image of the titular Predator from the Predator film franchise.

Predator: Killer of Killers — Dan Trachtenberg & Joshua Wassung [Review]

A young boy hesitantly petting the nose of a green-eyed dragon.

How to Train Your Dragon — Dean DeBlois [Review]

A young boy, a woman, and a shirtless, dirt-covered man stand amidst grass, vines, and trees.

28 Years Later — Danny Boyle [Review]

Two men, one with his hand on the other's shoulder, stand side by side and look offscreen.

Thug Life — Mani Ratnam [Review]

Everything’s Going to Be Great — Jon S. Baird [Review]

Feature Articles

There is No Future, There is Only the Past: A Critical Survey of the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival

May 23, 2024 - by Zachary Goldkind
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The Image and the Afterglow: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow

May 22, 2024 - by Frank Falisi
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The Joy of Their Making: The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi

May 14, 2024 - by Andrew Reichel
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Magnifying The Quince Tree Sun

May 8, 2024 - by Milo Garner
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Kicking the Canon

Hard Boiled — John Woo

February 10, 2023 - by Greg Cwik

For this writer, a personal cinematic pet peeve is when characters fire guns only for the bullets to seem to dissipate, never hitting anything. John…

The Harder They Come — Perry Henzell
February 10, 2023
Videodrome — David Cronenberg
February 4, 2023
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — Tope Hooper
January 27, 2023
The Last Days of Disco — Whit Stillman
January 20, 2023

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