There Were No Gods Left

Baltic Cinema

The Way We Are Living: A Conversation with Andrius Blaževičius on How to Divorce During the War

After Latvia became the first Baltic country to win an Academy Award with Flow in 2025, Conan O’Brien joked, “Ball’s in your court, Estonia!” The innocent omission of Lithuania, the region’s most populous country and thus theoretically most likely to actually produce an Oscar-worthy film, left

Korean Cinema

Colony

One of the best films of the year.

In Review Online

Insidious: Out of the Further

There is nothing new under the Further’s sun.

Japanese Cinema

Cocoon - One Summer of Girlhood

Schoolgirl crushes amid wartime

Baltic Cinema

Wartime Affairs: An Interview with Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė on How to Divorce During the War

"I'm very happy to be living at this moment and to see Lithuanian cinema succeed."

Baltic Cinema

How to Divorce During the War

Life moves on even when innocent eyes are met by the angel of history’s glare.

Japanese Cinema

Sheep in the Box

The future already looks bleak at times. It may get bleaker yet if our most humanistic artists continue to capitulate to their humanism.

Korean Cinema

Bias Wrecker: KATSEYE: Wild Hearts

Best watched with a six-inch rectangular distraction in hand.

The Odyssey

Fritz on Fridays: Lang as Odysseus in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt

Fritz Lang was cinema’s original Odysseus.

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Korean Cinema

Veteran

The revelation of the truth [is] as inevitable as a peaceful peninsula and gun taekwondo in the films of Ryoo Seung-wan.

François Arnaud

Fucktoys

Fucktoys doesn’t fuck around either.

Baltic Cinema

Born in the Jungle

The film’s beautiful animation truly romances with style. It’s just a shame it’s all in service of romanticizing the colonialist European exploration of the Americas.

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Japanese Cinema

Bullet Train Explosion

Following his recent successes with Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman, director Shinji Higuchi takes on another franchise with Bullet Train Explosion (2025), a galvanizing legacy sequel to the 1975 Japanese film The Bullet Train.

Streaming Wars

The Dink

Pickleball is a fundamentally silly sport. There is no sidestepping this sporting reality...Hollywood’s first pickleball comedy, director Josh Greenbaum’s The Dink, named after a shot type unique to the sport, understands this quite well.

The Rapidian

The Odyssey

On the belligerent poetry of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

Bay Area Reporter

Jewel’s Catch One

The 2016 documentary of a black gay dance bar in Los Angeles by the same name, “Jewel’s Catch One” is a hagiographic portrait of Jewel Thais-Williams, the bar’s founder and owner.

The Dink

Pickleball’s big streaming break: Mary Steenburgen and Producer Mike Witherill on ‘The Dink’

An inside look into Hollywood’s first A-list pickleball film

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Korean Cinema

The Fertilizer Home

Part of the 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Korean Cinema

Savon

Part of the 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

No Gods Left Exclusives

“Everyone Has Destructive Thoughts”: An Interview with Tamiris Zhangazinova

"I'm so tired of this shit."

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.