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Sunday
Apr272025

2025 Films (Alphabetically)

NEW IN THEATERS
• Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) Cláudio's Review
• Wake Up Dead Man (Johnson, US) Cláudio's Review 
• Wicked For Good (Jon Chu, US) Cláudio's Review 

NEW TO STREAMING
• Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, US/France) Cláudio's Review 
• Oh. What. Fun. (Michael Showalter, US) Nathaniel's Review
• Train Dreams (Clint Bentley, US)  Eurocheese Capsule,

 

2025 RELEASES IN US (REVIEWS & WRITE-UPS)
Alphabetical Order / †= Qualifying Release Only´

Emma Stone in "Bugonia" Atsushi Nishijima หš© 2025 Focus Feature LLC. All Rights Reserved

• 28 Years Later (Boyle, UK) Not Reviewed

• After the Hunt (Guadagnino, US) Elisa's Review, Eurocheese Capsule 
• † All That's Left of You () Jordan's Oscar Submission
• † Alpha (France)
• Anemone (UK) Eurocheese Capsule 
• April (Kulumbegashvili, Georgia) Cláudio's Review 
• † Arco (France) Not Reviewed 
• Avatar: Fire and Ash (Cameron, US) Not Reviewed

• Baby (Marcelo Caetano, Brazil)  Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• Bad Shabbos (Robbins, US)  Not Reviewed
• Ballad of Wallis Island (Griffiths, UK)  Not Reviewed
• Björk Cornucopia (Uggadóttir, Iceland)  Not Reviewed
• Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, US) Cláudio's Review
• Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
• Blue Sun Palace Nick's Review
• Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, US) Elisa's Review, Eurocheese Capsule

• Cactus Pears (India) Not Reviewed
• † Calle Malaga  (Touzani, Morocco) Cláudio's Review 
• Captain America: Brave New World (Onah, US) Nathaniel's Review
• Caught by the Tides (Zhangke) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
• † ChaO 
• † The Chronology of Water (Stewart)
• Cloud (Kurosawa, Japan 2024 OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Companion (Hancock, US) Not Reviewed
• The Conjuring Last Rites (Chaves, US) Nick's Review 


• † Dead Man's Wire (Gus Van Sant, US) Not Reviewed
• Die My Love (Ramsay, UK) Elisa's Review 
• Dog Man (Hastings, US)  Not Reviewed
• Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight (Davidtz, South Africa) Abe's Review 
• Dreams (Sex Love) (Haugerud, Norway) Elisa's Review 
• Eddington (Aster, US) Elisa's Review

• Eephus () Nick's Review
• Eleanor the Great (Johansson, US) , Eurocheese Capsule
• Elio (Molina, Shi, Sharafian, US)  Not Reviewed
• Eternity (US) Not Reviewed
• Extremely Unique Dynamic (Leung, Xu, and Dudas, US)  Not Reviewed

• F1: The Movie (Kosinski, US) Not Reviewed
• Familiar Touch (Friedland, US) Nick's Review 

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Matt Shankman, US)  Not Reviewed
• Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch, US) Elisa's Review DEC 24
• Fixed (Genndy Tartakovsky, US)  Not Reviewed
• Frankenstein (Guillermo Del Toro) Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese Capsule
• † Franz (Holland, Poland) Polish Oscar Submission
• Freakier Friday (Nisha Ganatra, US)  Not Reviewed

• Goodbye June (Winslet, UK) Not Reviewed DEC 24
• The Gorge (Scott Derrickson) Nathaniel's Review
• Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, Portugal Oscar Submission 2024) Cláudio's Review 
• La Grazia (Sorrentino, Italy) Elisa's Review DEC 5

• Hamnet (Zhao, US) Not Reviewed
• Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece) Cláudio's Review 
• Hedda (Nia DaCosta, US) Cláudio's Review 
• The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus) Elisa's Review, Eurocheese's Review 
• Honey Don't! (Ethan Coen, US)  Not Reviewed
• Holland (Mimi Cave, US)  Not Reviewed
• Hot Milk (Rebecca Lenkiewicz) Elisa's Review 
• A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow, US) Elisa's Review, Lynn's Defense 


• The Ice Tower Claudio's Review
• If I Had Leg's I'd Kick You (US) Claudio's Review
• I'm Your Venus (Kimberly Reed, US)  Not Reviewed
• In Your Dreams (US) Not Reviewed
• Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper, US) Eurocheese's Review DEC 19
• It Was Just As Accident (Jafar Pahani) Elisa's Review, Eurocheese Capsule

• Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Story (Laurent Bouzerau, US)  Not Reviewed
• Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach, US) Elisa's Review 
• Jurassic Word Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, US)  Not Reviewed

• Kill the Jockey (Ortega, Argentina) Abe's Review, Cláudio Capsule,  Halfway Mark Best List
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (Condon, US) Eurocheese Capsule
• † Kokohu (Japan) Claudio's Review, Japanese Oscar Submission
• Köln 75 (Ido Fluk, Germany) Elisa's Review 
• KPop Demon Hunters (Maggie Kang and Chris Applehans, US)  Not Reviewed

• Last Breath (Parkinson, US/UK)  Not Reviewed
• † Late Shift (Switzerland) Swiss Oscar Submission 
• Left-Handed Girl () Cláudio's Review 
• Lilies Not For Me (Seefried, UK)  Not Reviewed
• Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Klein, US) Not Reviewed
• Lost in Starlight (Han, South Korea) Not Reviewed
• Love ( Haugerud, Norway) Nathaniel's Capsule, Halfway Mark Performances  
• † The Love That Remains (Palmarson, Iceland) 

• Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum, US) Not Reviewed
• † Magellan (Diaz, Philippines) 
• † Magnificent Life (Chomet, France) Not Reviewed
• Marty Supreme (Safdie, US) Not Reviewed DEC 19
• The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, US) Elisa's Capsule, Cláudio's Review , Eurocheese Capsule
• Materialists (Celine Song, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• McVeigh (Mike Ott, US) Abe's Review 
• Meeting with Pol Pot (Rithy Panh, Cambodia) Cláudio's Review
• Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho, South Korea) Elisa's Review, Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists 
• Misericorida (Alain Guirardie, France) Not Reviewed
• † Mr Nobody Against Putin 
• † My Father's Shadow (UK) Nick's Review
• My Mom Jayne (Mariska Hargitay, US) Not Reviewed

VIET & NAM

• A Nice Indian Boy (Roshan Sethi, US) Nathaniel's Halfway Mark Lists 
• No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) Nathaniel's Capsule, Elisa's Review, Oscar Submission, Blue Dragon Win DEC 25
• Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, US/France) Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese Capsule
• Novocaine (Dan Berk & Robert Olsen, US) Nathaniel's Review


• Oh. What. Fun. (Michael Showalter, US) Not Reviewed Nathaniel's Review
• † Olivia & Las Nubes ()
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's Review, BIFA Nominations
• One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards) Elisa's Review
• One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, US) Eric's Review, Eurocheese Capsule

• Paddington in Peru (Dougal Wilson, US) Nathaniel's Review
• † Palestine 36
• The Parenting (Craig Johnson, US) Not Reviewed
• Pee Wee As Himself (Matt Wolf, US) Not Reviewed
• Peter Hujar's Day (Sachs, US) Claudio's Review
• Pets (Howard, US) DOC Not Reviewed
• The Phoenician Scheme (Anderson, US) Not Reviewed
• † Pillion (Lighton, UK) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese's Capsule, BIFA Nominations
• Plainclothes (US) Not Reviewed
• The Plague (US) Not Reviewed
• † A Poet () Cláudio's Review, Oscar Submission
• Presence (Soderbergh, US) Cláudio's Review 
• † The President's Cake 
• † A Private Life (Vie Privée) 

• Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Cattet & Forzani, Belgium) Elisa's Review 
• Riefenstahl () Nick's Review 


• † Scarlet (Hosada, Japan) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
• The Secret Agent (Mendonça, Brazil) Elisa's Capsule, Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese Capsule, Brazilian Oscar Submission 
• Sentimental Value (Trier, Norway) Elisa's Capsule, Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese Capsule, Norwegian Oscar Submission 
• Sex (Haugerud, Norway) Nathaniel's Capsule, Halfway Mark Performance Notes 
• The Shrouds (Cronenberg, Canada) Cláudio's Review
• Silent Friend () Not Reviewed
• Sinners (Coogler, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• † Sirât (Laxe, Spain) Elisa's Review, Spanish Oscar Submission
• The Smashing Machine (Safdie, US) Elisa's Review , Eurocheese Capsule 
• Snow White (Webb, US) Cláudio's Review 
• Song Sung Blue (US) Not Reviewed DEC 25
• † Sound of Falling (Schilinksi, Germany) Elisa's Review, Germany's Oscar Submission
• Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Cooper, US) Eurocheese Capsule
• Steve (Meilants, UK) Cláudio's Review 
• Superman (Gunn, US) Not Reviewed

• Tale of the Silyan (Kotevska, North Macedonia) Cláudio's Review, North Macedonian Oscar Submission
• The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold) Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese Capsule
• Thunderbolts* (Jake Schreier, US) Halfway Mark Performance Notes 
• Train Dreams (Clint Bentley, US) Eurocheese Capsule
• Twinless (James Sweeney, US) Not Reviewed

• The Ugly (South Korea) Cláudio's Review 
• The Ugly Stepsister (Blichfeldt, Norway) Nathaniel's Halfway Mark Lists 
• Urchin (Dickinson, UK) Nick's Review, BIFA Nominations

• Viêt and Nam (Qúy, Vietnam) Cláudio's Review, Nathaniel's Halfway Mark Lists 

• Wake Up Dead Man (Johnson, US) Cláudio's Review 
• Weapons (Cregger, US) Nick's Review, On Amy Madigan's Performance
• † We Shall Not Be Moved (Mexico)
• The Wedding Banquet (Ahn, US) Not Reviewed
• Wicked For Good (Chu, US) At the Premiere, Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese Capsule
• Wild Diamond (Riedinger) Elisa's Review
• William Tell (Hamm, UK/Switzerland) Abe's Review 

• Zootopia 2 (US) Not Reviewed


AWAITING DISTRIBUTION / US RELEASE DATE

• Brides (Fall, UK) Abe's Review
• Couture  (Winocur, France) Claudio's Review
• Das Licht (Tykwer, Germany) Elisa's Review
• Didn't Die (Menon) Abe's Review
• Dreams (Franco) Elisa's Review
• Dry Leaf  () Claudio's Review
• Eagles of the Republic (Salah, Sweden) Cláudio's Review, Sweden's Oscar Submission
• Forestera () Claudio's Review
• Hamlet (Karia, UK) Cláudio's Review
• Heightened Scrutiny (Feder, US) DOCUMENTARY Abe's Review
• I Only Rest in the Storm (Portugal) Claudio's Review
• Islands (Gerster, Germany) Elisa's Review
• It Would Be Night in Caracas (Rondón & Ugás, Mexico/Venezuela) Cláudio's Review
• The Little Sister (France) Claudio's Review
• Living the Land (Meng, China) Elisa's Review
• Marama () Claudio's Review
• Middletown (McBain & Moss, US) DOCUMENTARY Abe's Review
• Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Cespedess, Chile) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
• Nomad Shadow ( ) Cláudio's Review
• Nino (Loquè, ) Cláudio's Review
• Noviembre (Corredor, Colombia) Cláudio's Review
• Sukkwan Island (De Fontenay, France/Norway) Abe's Review 
• Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Island) (Falconer, US) Abe's Review  
• The Sun Rises On Us All () Claudio's Review
• Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Miyake, Japan) Cláudio's Review

Saturday
Oct262024

2024 Films (Alphabetically)

RELEASED AND REVIEWED BY THE TEAM

 

• Alien: Romulus (Fede Álvarez, UK/US) Cláudio's Capsule 
• All We Imagine as Light (Paual Kapadia, France/India) Cláudio's Review
• Anora (Sean Baker, US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review, Gotham Nominations
• Argylle (Matthew Vaugh, UK) Abe's Review

• Babygirl (Halina Reijn, Netherlands/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule , Gotham Nominations
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, US) Elisa's Review
• The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols, US) Chris's Review
• Bird (Andrea Arnold, UK) Elisa's Review
• The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, US/UK/Hungary) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule

 

• Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) Cláudio's Review , Gotham Nominations
• Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice, Spain) Cláudio's Review

• La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacious) Elisa's Review, Abe's Review

• Conclave (Edward Berger, UK/US) Matt's Review
• Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, Germany/US) Elisa's Review

• Daaaaaalí (Quentin Dupiex, France) Cláudio's Review
• Dahomey (Mati Diop, Senegal OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, US) Elisa's Review 
• Dune Part Two (Denis Villenuve, US/Canada) Cláudio's Review

• Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard, France) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan) Ben's Review, Nick's Review, Abe's Review (2023)

 

• The Fall Guy (David Leich, US) Chris's Review
• Fancy Dance (Erica Tremblay, US) Cláudio's Review
• The Fire Inside (Rachel Morrison, US) Eurocheese's Review 
• The First Omen (Arksaha Stevenson) Cláudio's Capsule
• Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• The Girl with the Needle (Magnus Van Horn, Denmark OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, UK) Eurocheese's Review, Cláudio's Review

• I'm Still Here (Walter Salles, Brazil OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review 
• In A Violent Nature (Chris Nash) Cláudio's Capsule
• I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoerunbrun) Cláudio's Review, Gotham Nominations, On Bridget Lundy-Paine
• It's What's Inside (Greg Jardin, US) Abe's Review

• Joker Folie A Deux (Todd Philips, US) Cláudio's Review

 

• Karaoke (Moshe Rosenthal, Israel) Abe's Review (2022) 
• Kneecap (, Ireland OSCAR SUBMISSION) BIFA Nominations

• Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, France) Cláudio's Review 
• Longlegs (Osgood Perkins) Cláudio's Capsule
• Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, US) Elisa's Review, BIFA Nominations

• Maria (Pablo Larrain, Chile/Germany/Italy) Elisa's Review
• Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US) Elisa's Review
• Monkey Man (Dev Patel, US/India) Cláudio's Review

• Nickel Boys (Ramell Ross, US) , Gotham Nominations
• No Other Land (various, Palestine) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Nowhere Special (Uberto Pasolini, UK/Italy) Cláudio's Review

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• Oddity (Damian McCarthy) Cláudio's Capsule
• Oh Canada(Paul Schrader, US/Israel) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl(Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's Review , BIFA Nominations
• The Outrun (), BIFA Nominations

• The People's Joker (Vera Drew, US) Nick's Review
• Power (Yance Ford, US) Abe's Review

• Queer(Luca Guadagnino, US/Italy) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule 
• A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski, US) Cláudio's Capsule

• The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Rumours (Guy Maddin, Canada/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 

 

• Santosh (, UK) , BIFA Nominations
• Sasquash Sunset (Nathan and David Zellner, US) Elisa's Review
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Small Things Like These (Tim Mielant, Ireland) Elisa's Review
• Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat (Johan Grimonprez) Cláudio's Review, EFA Nomination
• Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, US) Abe's Review 
• The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Trap (M Night Shyamalan, US) Cláudio's Review

• Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, Italy OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Interview, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Wild Robot (Chris Sanders, US) Cláudio's Review

• Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review
• Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review

 

STILL AWAITING U.S. DISTRIBUTION AT THIS WRITING

 

CLOUD

 

• 7 Keys (Joy Wilkinson, UK) Abe's Review
• Addition (Marcelle Lunam, Australia) Abe's Review
• Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) Cláudio's Review
• All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake, Japan) Elisa's Review
• Another End (Piero Messina, Italy/France/UK) Elisa's Review
• April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia) Cláudio's Review
• Audrey (Natalie Bailey, Australia) Abe's Review
• The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeline Hunt-Ehrlich) Cláudio's Review
• Beacon (Roxy Shih) Abe's Review
• Beloved Tropic (Ana Endara Mislov) Cláudio's Capsule
• Bliss (Shemi Zarhin, Israel) Abe's Review
• bluish (Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner) Nick's Review
• Boong (Lakshmipriya Devi, India) Cláudio's Capsule
• Carnival is Over (Fernando Coimbra) Cláudio's Review
• Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Christmas Eve at Miller's Point (Tyler Taormina) Elisa's Review
• Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland) Cláudio's Review
• The Courageous (Jasmin Gordon) Cláudio's Capsule

• The Damned (Roberto Minervini) Elisa's Review
• Darkest Miriam (Naomi Jaye) Abe's Review
• Desert Road (Shannon Triplett) Abe's Review
• L'Empire (Bruno Dumont, France) Elisa's Review
• The Exiles (Belén Funes) Cláudio's Capsule
• Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, Slovenia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Abe's Review
• Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus, Portugal) Cláudio's Review
• The French Italian (Rachel Wolther) Abe's Review
• The Freshly Cut Grass (Celina Murga) Abe's Review
• From Ground Zero (various, Palestine OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• From Hilde With Love (Andreas Dresen) Elisa's Review
• Gülizar (Belkis Bayrak, Turkey/Kosovo) Cláudio's Capsule
• Happy Holidays (Scandar Copti, Palestine / Israel/ Germany) Abe's Review
• Horizonte (César Augusto Acevedo) Cláudio's Review
• Hunting Daze (Annick Blanc) Abe's Review

• Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End (Michael Johathan, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• The Knife (Nnamdi Asomugha, US) Abe's Review
• Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (The Agbajowo Collective) Cláudio's Review
• Liminov: The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov) Elisa's Review
• Malta (Natalia Santa) Abe's Review
• A Mistake (Christine Jeffs) Abe's Review
• Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo) Cláudio's Review
• The Mountain (Rachel House, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• My Favourite Cake (Behtash Saneeha & Maryam Moghadda, Iran) Elisa's Review
• Nonostante (Feeling Better) (Valerio Mastandrea, Italy) Elisa's Review
• On Falling (Laura Carreira) Cláudio's Review

• The  Party's Over (Elena Manrique, Spain) Cláudio's Capsule
• Pepe (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Perfumed with Mint (Muhammad Hamdy) Cláudio's Review
• Plastic People (Ben Addelman & Ziya Tong) Abe's Review
• Pooja Sir (Deepak Rauniyar, India) Elisa's Review
• Queen of My Dreams (Fawzia Mirza, Pakistan/Canada) Abe's Review
• Quisling - The Final Days (Erik Poppe, Norway) Abe's Review
• Restless (Jed Hart) Abe's Review
• Roleplay (Kate Lyn Matthew) Abe's Review

• The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux, France) Elisa's Review
• Shepherds (Sophie Deraspe, Canada/France) Cláudio's Capsule
• Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor, US) Cláudio's Review
• Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas, France) Elisa's Capsule
• Three Kilometres to The End of the World (Emanuel Pârvu, Romania OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review
• Triumph (Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing) Nick's Review

 

• The Village Next to Paradise (Mo Harawe) Cláudio's Capsule 
• We Strangers (Anu Valia, US) Abe's Review
• We Were Dangerous (Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• Wolves Always Comes At Night (Gabrielle Brady, Mongolia/Australia) Cláudio's Review 


NATHANIEL'S 2024 RANKING, GENERALIZED
(alphabetized by categories)

 

Loved. Think of Them Often
Anora, Armand, The Brutalist, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Flow, Housekeeping for Beginners, Problemista, The Room Next Door, Saturday Night, Vermiglio , and Wicked.

Good Stuff. See Them!
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Brats, Conclave, Didi, Dune Part Two, Femme, Fly Me To the Moon, The Last Showgirl, Nightbitch, Outstanding A Comedy Revolution, Queer, A Real Pain, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Thelma, The Thicket , and The Wild Robot

Recommended albeit with Major or Minor Quibbles:
Alien Romulus, The Bikeriders, Big Boys, Blitz, The Critic, Damsel, Emilia Perez, Fancy Dance, Gladiator II, Hit Man, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Idea of You, Inside Out 2, I Saw the TV Glow, Janet Planet, Late Night with the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding, Merchant Ivory, Nosferatu, Orion and the Dark, The Outrun,  Outstanding A Comedy Revolution, Road House, Santosh, Sebastian, Sing Sing, The Substance,  Unstoppable, Wicked Little Letters,  and Woman of the Hour

Whatever Their Qualities -- They'll Have Their Fans -- But I Was Never Fully On Board
The Beast Within, Between the Temples, Code 8 Part II, Deadpool & Wolverine, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Mean Girls, Monkey Man, Piece by Piece, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Unstoppable

Make It Stop!
Atlas, A Family Affair, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, IF, and Madame Web