No Gods Left Exclusive Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning This is Tom Cruise at this best, at his most vulnerable, and at his most ambitious.
Reviews Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk — Sepideh Farsi Fatima Hassouna might have had the brightest smile and biggest eyes in all of Gaza.
Reviews Dandelion’s Odyssey Yes, you read that right: this is an animated film without words about dandelion seeds traversing the cosmos in search of a new home.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Hilde Warren and Death The classic Langian game theory with fate expresses itself through Weimar-era anxieties about corrupted blood.
Baltic Cinema GO TO: Faithful unto Death (2024) dir. Ivars Zviedris Faithful unto Death will be having its North American premiere this Saturday, May 17, at the West Newton Cinema.
No Gods Left Exclusive Sinners Ryan Coogler gets dangerously close to the horrifying center of American culture over the course of the single night — close enough for Sinners to dance with America’s original sin.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: The Blue Gardenia The Blue Gardenia challenges this narrative of complacency and Lang’s supposed wont to “sleepwalking through history.”
Chinese Cinema(s) Striking Rescue — Siyu Cheng [Review] Striking Rescue cinematographer Ai Yanjie loses sight of much of the action and regrettably tempers the blows of the stunt team.
Reviews The Little Brother (Bratan) The Little Brother is a travel film with a defying political undercurrent
Palestinian Cinema Leila and the Wolves — Heiny Srour [Review] Leila and the Wolves ... holds a special place within that tradition of boundary-pushing Leftist filmmaking from the Arab Levant.
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Harakiri (1919) One of the most underappreciated legacies of Fritz Lang’s career was his star-making power.
No Gods Left Exclusive In The Lost Lands The sort of world one wishes they could give Ted Cruz a one-way ticket to.
Essays Libera te Tutamet: Pompeii (2014) One of the greatest cinematic achievements of the 21st century.
Reviews BBFF Dispatch #2: Two Baltic Movies Prominently Featuring Lakes Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025
Reviews BBFF Dispatch #1: Three Highlights from Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania The following dispatch features reviews of Podnieks on Podnieks. A Witness to History; Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania; & Lioness.
Reviews Death Education Chinese teacher introduces the topic of death education to his students... by experiencing it firsthand - poetic documentary premiered at Sundance
Reviews Fritz on Fridays: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is more sadistic than bleak.
Reviews Orenda — Pirjo Honkasalo [IFFR ’25 Review] Orenda is by no means a bad film and in fact mightily impresses in moments, its inconsistency undermines testimony of any genuine orenda.
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