The Wild Robot
Sci-Fi, Animation · 1h 55m
89%
Celluloid Score Fresh 98% Audience
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It Was Just an Accident
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Celluloid Score Fresh 88% Audience
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All reviews → critic All We Imagine as Light
All We Imagine as Light Review: Payal Kapadia's Tender Mumbai Masterpiece
★★★★★
Kapadia's Cannes Grand Prize winner maps three Mumbai nurses' loneliness with tender precision—a landmark of working-class Indian cinema.
Essential viewing for anyone who believes cinema can hold ordinary lives with grace.
critic Caught by the Tides
Caught by the Tides Review: Jia Zhangke's Memory Palace of a Changing China
★★★★½
Assembled from two decades of Jia Zhangke's own footage, this drifting portrait of love and displacement finds Tao Zhao aging alongside a nation in flux.
Essential viewing for anyone who believes cinema can hold time.
critic Come See Me in the Good Light
Come See Me in the Good Light Review: Love Facing Mortality With Grace
★★★★★
Ryan White documents poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing terminal illness with humor and unguarded affection—earned tears, not sentiment.
The year's most honest love story is a documentary.
critic Cover-Up
Cover-Up Review: Seymour Hersh and the Moral Architecture of Investigative Journalism
★★★★½
Mark Obenhaus traces Seymour Hersh's decades of unwelcome scoops in a documentary that doubles as a masterclass in why dogged reporting still matters.
Essential for anyone who cares about truth in an age of noise.
critic Deaf President Now!
Deaf President Now! Review: A Landmark Documentary of Deaf Resistance
★★★★★
DiMarco reconstructs the 1988 Gallaudet protests with formal inventiveness that puts deaf perspective at the center of its own historic telling.
Essential history, told with the urgency it deserves.
critic Eephus
Eephus Review: A Shaggy Elegy for Small-Town Baseball
★★★★★
Lund stretches one last amateur ballgame into a shaggy elegy for small-town ritual, finding poignancy in the sport's dead time and enduring friendships.
Patient, shaggy, and unexpectedly moving — if you meet it on its own clock.
critic Ghostlight
Ghostlight Review: Community Theater Becomes a Lifeline for Grief
★★★★☆
Kelly O'Sullivan's Chicago drama turns a real family cast into something rare — a grief story that earns its Shakespeare without a single false note.
Certified Fresh and deeply human.
critic Girls Will Be Girls
Girls Will Be Girls Review: A Himalayan Coming-of-Age With Real Bite
★★★★★
Talati turns a Himalayan boarding-school romance into a sly study of inherited shame, with a mother-daughter rivalry that gives the genre real teeth.
The coming-of-age film India needed — sharp, sensual, and unsparing.
critic Good One
Good One Review: A Camping Trip Where Every Silence Cuts
★★★½☆
India Donaldson's piercing debut turns a Catskills backpacking trip into a quiet study of how fathers fail their daughters.
A sharp debut that splits audiences and rewards patience.
critic His Three Daughters
His Three Daughters Review: Three Sisters, One Apartment, No Escape
★★★★☆
Azazel Jacobs traps Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon in a dying father's apartment — and the claustrophobia is the whole point.
Ensemble drama at its most precise.
critic Holy Cow
Holy Cow Review: Rural Cheesemaking and Unexpected Sweetness
★★★★☆
Louise Courvoisier finds unexpected sweetness in a teenager's clumsy attempt to hold his family together after his father's death.
A gentle French masterwork hiding in plain sight.
critic It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: A Restless Spirit, Fully Rendered
★★★½☆
Amy Berg's intimate portrait of Jeff Buckley's brief, restless career mourns without wallowing, anchored by home recordings and unguarded interviews.
The definitive Buckley documentary — finally.
critic LaRoy, Texas
LaRoy, Texas Review: John Magaro in a Small-Town Noir of Mistaken Identity
★★★½☆
Shane Atkinson wrings dark comedy from mistaken identity, with John Magaro's hapless lead giving LaRoy, Texas the jittery energy of small-town noir.
Modest but sharply entertaining indie noir.
critic Lesbian Space Princess
Lesbian Space Princess Review: Lo-Fi Animation With a Big Queer Heart
★★★½☆
Leela Varghese's gleefully lo-fi animated romp turns a breakup rescue mission into giddy sci-fi comedy that never outruns its sincerity.
Messy, horny, sincere — and proudly so.
critic Little Trouble Girls
Little Trouble Girls Review: Desire in a Convent Choir
★★★½☆
Urška Djukić sets a shy teenager's first stirrings of desire against a convent choir retreat — piety and longing in quiet friction.
A quietly charged Slovenian coming-of-age gem.
critic LOLA
LOLA Review: A Wartime Sci-Fi That Curdles Beautifully
★★★½☆
Andrew Legge's found-footage WWII sci-fi asks what two sisters would do with a radio that hears tomorrow — and the answer turns alarming.
Inventive, chilly, and divisive in the best way.
critic Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore Review: A Deaf Icon on Her Own Terms
★★★★☆
Shoshannah Stern's insider portrait lets Marlee Matlin speak for herself, avoiding hagiography while honoring a groundbreaking career.
Essential viewing on Deaf representation and resilience.
critic Megadoc
Megadoc Review: Coppola's Obsession, Unfiltered
★★★½☆
Mike Figgis turns Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis gamble into a riveting study of creative hubris and self-financed ambition.
Essential for anyone who cares how movies get made.
critic Minions & Monsters
Minions & Monsters Review: Illumination's Love Letter to Hollywood Horror
★★★★☆
The Minions crash a monster-movie lot in the year's most affectionate animated comedy — funny, fast, and surprisingly sincere about classic Hollywood craft.
The best Minions movie since the original — ideal family viewing with genuine cinephile Easter eggs.
critic Molli and Max in the Future
Molli and Max in the Future Review: DIY Sci-Fi Romance With Real Gravity
★★★½☆
Michael Lukk Litwak's lo-fi cosmic rom-com proves charm beats budget, though its 175-minute sprawl tests even patient viewers.
Inventive, uneven, and genuinely romantic.
critic No Other Choice
No Other Choice Review: Park Chan-wook's Unemployment Nightmare
★★★★½
Lee Byung-hun gleefully unravels as a laid-off company man in Park Chan-wook's pitch-black comedy — unemployment anxiety turned into a musical nightmare.
Dark, daring, and darkly funny.
critic Nowhere Special
Nowhere Special Review: James Norton's Quiet Devastation
★★★★★
Pasolini resists melodrama, trusting Norton's tender performance to carry a dying father's impossible search for his son's future family.
A weepie that earns every tear through restraint.
critic On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Review: Rungano Nyoni's Devastating Zambian Satire
★★★★★
Nyoni folds dark family secrets into wry, surreal Zambian funeral satire—confirming her gift for finding pointed comedy inside grief.
A bold, uncomfortable, and brilliantly controlled second feature.
critic Robot Dreams
Robot Dreams Review: A Wordless Friendship That Will Break Your Heart
★★★★☆
Pablo Berger's silent animated gem about a dog and his robot companion says more about friendship and loss than most films manage with dialogue.
A modern animated classic — bring tissues.
critic Santosh
Santosh Review: Shahana Goswami's Seething Police Drama
★★★★★
Goswami anchors Suri's tense police procedural, using a rural murder case to expose the caste and gender fault lines running through India's system.
A procedural that understands justice and power are never the same thing.
critic Secret Mall Apartment
Secret Mall Apartment Review: The Ultimate Mall Rat Documentary
★★★★☆
Jeremy Workman turns an absurd Rhode Island squat into a sharp, affectionate critique of consumerist sprawl and DIY ingenuity.
Funny, smart, and sneakily subversive.
critic Souleymane's Story
Souleymane's Story Review: A Desperate Race Through Paris
★★★★★
Lojkine follows a delivery cyclist's frantic asylum deadline with urgent handheld immediacy, turning bureaucratic dread into pure cinematic tension.
A thriller where the clock is immigration policy — and it never stops ticking.
critic The Crime Is Mine
The Crime Is Mine Review: Ozon's Parisian Farce Has Huppert and Style to Spare
★★★½☆
François Ozon's 1930s murder farce pairs gorgeous production design with Isabelle Huppert in scene-stealing form — frothy, fun, and slightly slight.
Stylish entertainment that critics prefer to audiences.
critic The Perfect Neighbor
The Perfect Neighbor Review: Bodycam Footage Becomes a Stand Your Ground Horror Story
★★★★½
Geeta Gandbhir assembles bodycam and interrogation footage into a slow-burning indictment of Florida's stand your ground culture without ever raising its voice.
Devastating true-crime cinema with civic urgency.
critic The Plague
The Plague Review: A Boys' Camp Becomes a Pressure Cooker
★★★★★
Charlie Polinger transforms a 2003 swim camp into a nightmare of cruelty and shame — Joel Edgerton anchors a debut that critics call near-perfect.
Queasy, precise, and unforgettable.
critic The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent Review: Wagner Moura in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Brazilian Paranoia Epic
★★★★★
Kleber Mendonça Filho folds pulpy genre thrills into a pointed reckoning with Brazil's dictatorship years, anchored by Wagner Moura's haunted performance.
A sprawling political thriller that earns its ambitions.
critic The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot Review: DreamWorks Delivers Pixar-Level Heart
★★★★½
Christopher Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's novel pairs lush animation with Lupita Nyong'o's voice work in a survival story that earns every tear.
Essential family viewing — a modern animated masterpiece.
critic Thelma
Thelma Review: June Squibb Turns Aging Into an Action Hero Origin Story
★★★★☆
Josh Margolin's scam-fueled action-comedy gives June Squibb a rare starring turn — and she plays every stunt for real emotional stakes.
A crowd-pleaser with genuine heart.
critic Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Review: Aardman's Triumphant Return
★★★★★
Park and Crossingham needle smart-home gadgetry and AI anxieties without losing stop-motion's cozy handmade charm—Wallace and Gromit still deliver.
The year's best family film is also its smartest tech satire.
critic The Invite
The Invite Is the Funniest, Most Uncomfortable Dinner Party of the Year
★★★★½
Olivia Wilde's English-language remake turns one noisy apartment building into a showcase for four actors at the top of their game.
Sharp, uncomfortable, and very funny.
critic Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day Is Spielberg in Restrained, Slow-Burn Mode
★★★★☆
A stacked ensemble cast carries a sci-fi thriller more interested in fallout and control than spectacle.
Tense, deliberate, and well-acted.
critic Rose
Rose Review: Sandra Hüller Is Extraordinary in a Nearly Flawless Period Drama
★★★★½
Markus Schleinzer's black-and-white Thirty Years' War drama is a masterclass in control, led by a career-best performance from Sandra Hüller.
Austere, immaculate, quietly devastating.
critic Ghost in the Cell
Ghost in the Cell Review: Joko Anwar's Bloody, Brilliant Prison Nightmare
★★★½☆
A notorious prison becomes a pressure cooker of gore, gallows humor, and institutional rot in Joko Anwar's most purely entertaining film in years.
Splattery, savage, and a lot of fun.
critic Wait Until I Make It
Wait Until I Make It Review: The Lebaran Comedy That Actually Gets It
★★★★☆
A three-years-unemployed man's race to prove himself before his family's Eid gathering turns into one of the year's most quietly honest comedies.
Funny, sincere, and uncomfortably relatable.
critic Yellow Letters
Yellow Letters Review: The Golden Bear Winner That Makes Censorship Personal
★★★★☆
İlker Çatak follows The Teachers' Lounge with a Golden Bear-winning drama about a Turkish artist couple crushed by state retaliation.
Urgent, gripping, occasionally overextended.
critic Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes Review: A Box-Office Juggernaut With a Thin Script
★★½☆☆
Funke Akindele's record-breaking family drama connects with audiences even as its glossy staging and telegraphed twists frustrate critics.
Crowd-pleasing but creatively cautious
critic My Father's Shadow
My Father's Shadow Review: Nigeria's Cannes Breakthrough Is a Quiet Marvel
★★★★½
A single day in 1993 Lagos becomes a devastating portrait of fatherhood, memory, and a nation on edge.
A near-perfect debut
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Celluloid Score Fresh 92% Audience
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Celluloid Score Fresh 85% Audience
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Comedy, Drama · 1h 55m
87%
Celluloid Score Fresh 90% Audience
It Was Just an Accident
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87%
Celluloid Score Fresh 88% Audience
Robot Dreams
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87%
Celluloid Score Fresh 89% Audience
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87%
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No Other Choice
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86%
Celluloid Score Fresh 90% Audience
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Drama · 2h 40m
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