Adam Meeks filmed inside Ohio's recovery courts, mixing actors with real people who actually appeared in those rooms. The result is a film about addiction that doesn't traffic in redemption. Recovery here is provisional, fragile,…
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Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans construct an indictment of institutional abandonment. Their documentary reexamines the October 1985 assassination of Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh, a murder that echoes in the silence that followed. The film’s…
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Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer's Wicker begins with a strange premise. A lonely fisherwoman commissions a husband made from wicker. Not metaphorically. Actually wicker. And the film takes this seriously. The genius of the…
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Padraic McKinley's feature debut is one of those rare films that justifies its ambitiousness. A depression-era heist with prisoners stealing gold. The film conducts a dialogue with William Friedkin's Sorcerer , matching it on desperation,…
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Macon Blair's The Shitheads announces itself with title and intent: this is cinema willing to treat failure and the criminal underclasses with the same attention cinema usually reserves for the ambitious. Dave Franco and O'Shea…
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Amir Bar-Lev documents the first winter ascent of K2 (2020-2021) and creates a film that's less about reaching the summit than about what happens to mountaineering when every moment becomes content. Between the climbing sequences,…
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Ian Tuason's debut feature Undertone is a formally innovative horror film that makes audio itself the primary site of dread. Distributed by A24, the film tracks podcast hosts investigating inexplicable audio recordings while simultaneously following…
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Sara Dosa's "Time and Water" is a 90-minute meditation on climate catastrophe that locates its emotional center not in urgency but in stillness. Her previous film "Fire of Love" captured the passionate contradictions of volcanologists.…
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Harry is a pickpocket in Manhattan where nobody carries wallets anymore. His skills, the brush pass, the double dip, sleight of hand executed so precisely it becomes invisible, now qualify him for obscurity. John Turturro…
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