There Were No Gods Left

Fritz on Fridays

Fritz on Fridays: Destiny

My best friend recently told me about the Benadryl Hat Man.

Baltic Cinema

Song Sources 1866

The lone film event at the festival was a screening of the new documentary Song Sources 1866 (Dziesmu Avoti 1866), a 33-minute short from first-time director Dace Micāne-Zālīte about the first Latvian youth choir festival in Lazdona and its legacy in the present.

Korean Cinema

Bias Wrecker: MAMAMOO: My Con the Movie & Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience

A better propaganda film about power than Melania.

The Rapidian

Leviticus

Chiarella shows promise as a maker of symbols.

The Rapidian

Girls Like Girls

Both summer and the past must come to an end.

Josh O'Connor

Disclosure Day

A boomer’s hopeful, naive dream in the power of moving image-based media.

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Bodies Bodies Bodies

The most resonant slasher of the decade.

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Code of Misconduct

Alternative programming for hockey spectators disturbed by the game’s troubled legacy of rewarding misogynistic and sexually abusive behavior.

Fritz on Fridays: Voyage to Metropolis

Fritz on Fridays: Voyage to Metropolis

Cookie-cutter material as far as Blu-ray behind-the-scenes documentaries go.

Eiza González

I Love Boosters

A special film from a filmmaker we ought to treasure.

2026 Cannes Film Festival

Che Guevara: The Last Companions

Isn’t too far removed from any soulless Che Guevara T-shirt that reduces revolutionary politics to marketable heroes of the past.

Baltic Cinema

Valdis Celmiņš on Digital Cinema, Documentary Filmmaking, and the Passing of Time: An Interview with the Latvian Answer to Roger Deakins

"I want to try to find the poetry in the small details."

Lukita Maxwell

An Autumn Summer

Regardless, it’s still fun to see the Sleeping Bear Dunes in a real movie playing in real Michigan theaters.

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Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon

The introduction to the music of Y Vân is reason enough to catch The Lost Sounds of Saigon.

Baltic Cinema

Inmates running an asylum: on Kaljo Kiisk’s cult Estonian satire Madness

A fitting North Star for Estonian cinema

Fritz on Fridays

Fritz on Fridays: Ministry of Fear

Fascists being everywhere in (formerly) Allied territory and secret international rings of fucked-up criminal elites no longer feel that farfetched. The clandestine seance of the fascist Mothers of Free Nations members could have taken place on Little St. James or North Fox Island.

David Lowery

Mother Mary

David Lowery doesn’t give easy answers, and that’s part of what makes the film special.

In Review Online

Desert Warrior

The marketing touts Desert Warrior as the film to finally put Saudi Arabia on the map of global cinephilia. It certainly is the biggest.

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“I Played with the Devil Inside Me”: An Interview with Raitis Stūrmanis on Red Code Blue

Bombs, mustaches, and a journey into acting.

Palestinian Cinema

Q&A with Director Annemarie Jacir on Palestine 36

"I hope that connection is the light in all this darkness."

Fritz on Fridays

Fritz on Fridays: The Science-Fiction Films of Fritz Lang with Ayesha Khan

"Metropolis not only brought this to life for the moving pictures, it also stretched the idea of what cinema is about and capable of."

Russian cinema

A Russian Winter

Destined for controversy.

The Rapidian

Project Hail Mary

Just like the prayerful title, “Project Hail Mary” is incredibly optimistic.

Baltic Cinema

Political Filmmaking, Ex-Boyfriends, and Gay Propaganda: An Interview with Alise Zariņa on Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart

"No need to hit somebody with an axe."

Baltic Cinema

Boston Baltic Film Festival: Q&A Panels & Interview on Lithuanian Films

Videos from the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2026