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Baltic Cinema

The Corridor

A series of self-estranging images that rupture the past with the present.

End of Year Lists

The 10 Best Films of 2025

2025 was exactly like every year in the history of cinema in its quality. The only variable every year is whether or not one watched the best the year had to offer.

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“The Blind Witness to Our End”: Ruminations on James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash

To feel important is to feel loved.

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Baltic Cinema

The Beauty

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Avatar: Fire and Ash

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Korean Cinema

No Other Choice

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Chinese Cinema(s)

Slow Cinema, Male Nudity, & Censorship: An Interview with Wang Bing

Baltic Cinema

Radical Filmmaking & Killing Penises: An Interview with Miguel Llansó on Infinite Summer

"I first wanted to kill the penis."

Baltic Cinema

Infinite Summer

Perfectly fits into the contemporary Estonian film landscape with its ironic genre play, strange sexual verve, and popping embrace of quirky digital visuals.

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Sholay

Experiences like Sholay are why we go to the movies.

Baltic Cinema

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel resists the ordinary in favor of the idiosyncratic and renegade.

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The Penguin Lessons

An "anti-fascism" historical film whose idea of resisting demagogues is limited to letter writing and asking the paramilitary enforcer agents to kindly return the civilians they kidnap.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the most Kirbyesque the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever felt.

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The Invisibles

There is something a little charming about [Andrew] Currie’s direction in its ability to maintain optimism and hope in Charlie’s darkest moments. Hopefully, that quality is contagious.

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Baltic Cinema

Motorcycle Summer

James Gunn

Superman

[James Gunn is] the last director standing in the superhero factory with anything left in a vision of heroism to tap into.

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28 Years Later

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Jurassic World Rebirth

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Into the Labyrinth

Chinese Cinema(s)

Shanghai Blues

Shanghai Blues will always be a brilliant romantic comedy.

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Spanish Language Cinema

Vera and the Pleasure of Others

Vietnamese Cinema

Detective Kien: The Headless Horror

Ugly people don’t exist in Victor Vu's worlds, for better and worse.

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Mickey 17

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Ash

Ash is the vision of a filmmaker reared on the hectic images of music videos. The ambition gets swallowed by its derivativeness.

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Final Destination Bloodlines