No Gods Left Exclusives

Original criticism of motion pictures available here and nowhere else. Frequently writing on non-English film (Baltic, Chinese, & Korean, etc), slow and digital cinemas, and more.

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."

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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.

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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.

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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

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

"I'm so tired of this shit."

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.

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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.

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."

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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.

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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.

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

The Arvo Pärt Trilogy

Part of the 2026 Boston Baltic Film Festival

Baltic Cinema

To Be Continued & To Be Continued. Teenhood

Part of the 2026 Boston Baltic Film Festival

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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

Chinese Cinema(s)

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

An exclusive interview with one of the world's most important filmmakers.

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.