Alex Gibney's Knife documents the 2022 stabbing that nearly killed Salman Rushdie. It's based on Rushdie's own account. But what matters is how Gibney built it: as elegy, as historical record, as defiance. Rachel Eliza…
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Jeffrey Walker adapts David Walliams' Fing for film. The premise is simple: spoiled 12-year-old Myrtle Meek's parents find a mysterious creature to teach her a lesson. It could be preachy. Instead Walker gets something right.…
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Rachael Morrison's Joybubbles is less biography than séance, an attempt to conjure the consciousness of Joe Engressia (who renamed himself Joybubbles) through archival fragments and audio recordings. The 79-minute runtime doesn't permit comprehensive accounting. Morrison…
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Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's Little Miss Sunshine won Sundance in 2006 and launched a thousand indie imitators. The festival honored it with a legacy screening in 2026 that proved something simple: great storytelling doesn't…
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Michał Marczak's Closure opens with a simple devastation: Father Daniel searches the Vistula River for his teenage son, who vanished from a bridge. The film doesn't resolve anything. It documents a man learning to live…
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Gregg Araki hasn’t made a feature in twelve years. I Want Your Sex announces itself as deliberately shocking, then spends ninety minutes deciding whether to actually go through with it. The film opens well: Olivia…
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Josef Kubota Wladyka's Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a film that kills any easy separation between grief and life. A competitive ballroom dancer loses her husband mid-performance and finds herself navigating the unnavigable: how to…
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Andrew Stanton jumps from prehistoric caves to contemporary life to a distant spaceship bound for Kepler. The goal: find the universal human story threading through all three. Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, and Daveed Diggs anchor…
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Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman position Churchill, Manitoba as ground zero: polar bears forced inland by melting ice encounter a town predicated on their absence. It's not a polemic. It's not a nature film.…
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