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Apr272025

2025 Films (Alphabetically)

2025 RELEASES IN US*, REVIEWS
(*includes titles scheduled for release)

NEW IN THEATERS 
• The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus) Elisa's ReviewEurocheese's Review 
• Dreams (Sex Love) (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Elisa's Review 
• The Conjuring Last Rites (US) Nick's Review 
Twinless (James Sweeney, US) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, NOT YET REVIEWED

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

• 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, UK) Not Reviewed

After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 10
• April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia) Cláudio's Review

Baby (Marcelo Caetano, Brazil)  Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• Bad Shabbos (US)  Not Reviewed
• Ballad of Wallis Island ()  Not Reviewed
• Björk Cornucopia ()  Not Reviewed
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, US) Cláudio's Review
• Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review - OPENS OCT 17
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, US) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 24

Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah, US) Nathaniel's Review
• Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) Elisa's ReviewCláudio's Review 
• Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan 2024 OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Companion (Drew Hancock, US) Not Reviewed
The Conjuring Last Rites (US) Nick's Review 

Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay) Elisa's Review OPENS NOV 7
• Dog Man (Peter Hastings, US)  Not Reviewed
• Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight (Embeth Davidtz, South Africa) Abe's Review 
• Dreams (Sex Love) (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Elisa's Review 
Eddington (Ari Aster, US) Elisa's Review

• Elio (US)  Not Reviewed
• Extremely Unique Dynamic (Ivan Leung, Harrison Xu, and Katherine Dudas, US)  Not Reviewed

• F1: The Movie (Joseph Kosinski, US)  Not Reviewed
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Matt Shankman, US)  Not Reviewed
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch, US) Elisa's Review OPENS DEC 24
• Fixed (Genndy Tartakovsky, US)  Not Reviewed
• Freakier Friday (Nisha Ganatra, US)  Not Reviewed

The Gorge (Scott Derrickson) Nathaniel's Review
• Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, Portugal Oscar Submission 2024) Cláudio's Review 

 Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece) 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 OPENS OCT 10 

• I'm Your Venus (Kimberly Reed, US)  Not Reviewed
• It Was Just As Accident (Jafar Pahani) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 15

• Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Story (Laurent Bouzerau, US)  Not Reviewed
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach, US) Elisa's Review OPENS NOV 14
• Jurassic Word Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, US)  Not Reviewed

Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega, Argentina) '24 OSCAR SUBMISSION Abe's ReviewCláudio Capsule,  Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• Köln 75 (Ido Fluk, Germany) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 17
KPop Demon Hunters (Maggie Kang and Chris Applehans, US)  Not Reviewed

• Last Breath (Alex Parkinson, US/UK)  Not Reviewed
Left-Handed Girl () TAIWAN OSCAR SUBMISSION Cláudio's Review OPENS NOV 14
• Lilies Not For Me (Will Seefried, UK)  Not Reviewed
• Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Bruce David Klein, US) Not Reviewed
• Lost in Starlight (Han Ji-Won, South Korea) Not Reviewed
Love (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Nathaniel's Capsule, Halfway Mark Performance Notes 

• Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum, US) Not Reviewed
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, US) Elisa's Capsule OPENS OCT 17
Materialists (Celine Song, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
 McVeigh (Mike Ott, US) Abe's Review 
Meeting with Pol Pot (Rithy Panh, Cambodia) INTL 2024, 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
• My Mom Jayne (Mariska Hargitay, US) Not Reviewed

VIET & NAM

A Nice Indian Boy (Roshan Sethi, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists 
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) Elisa's Review, South Korea's Oscar Submission OPENS DEC 25
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, US/France) Cláudio's Review OSCAR SUBMISSION FINALIST FOR FRANCE, OPENS OCT 31
Novocaine (Dan Berk & Robert Olsen, US) Nathaniel's Review


• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's ReviewBIFA Nominations
 One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards) Elisa's Review

Paddington in Peru (Dougal Wilson, US) Nathaniel's Review
• The Parenting (Craig Johnson, US) Not Reviewed
• Pee Wee As Himself (Matt Wolf, US) Not Reviewed
• Pets (Bryce Dallas Howard, US) DOC Not Reviewed
• The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson, US) Not Reviewed
Presence (Steven Soderbergh, US) Cláudio's Review

Scarlet (Mamoru Hosada, Japan) Elisa's Review OPENS
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonca Filho, Brazil) Elisa's Capsule BRAZIL OSCAR SUBMISSION FINALIST, OPENS NOV 26
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier, Norway) Elisa's Capsule, Cláudio's Review, Norway's Oscar Submission OPENS NOV 7
Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Nathaniel's Capsule, Halfway Mark Performance Notes 
 The Shrouds (David Croneberg, Canada) Cláudio's Review
Sinners (Ryan Coogler, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
Sirat (Oliver Laxe, Spain) Elisa's Review SPAIN OSCAR SUBMISSION FINALIST, OPENS NOV 14
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie, US) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 3
Snow White (Marc Webb, US) Cláudio's Review 
• Superman (James Gunn, US) Not Reviewed

Thunderbolts* (Jake Schreier, US) Halfway Mark Performance Notes 
• Twinless (James Sweeney, US) 

The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfeldt, Norway)  Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists 

• Viêt and Nam (Truong Minh Qúy, Vietnam) Cláudio's Review, Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists

Wake Up Dead Man (US) Cláudio's Review OPENS NOV 26
Weapons (Zach Cregger, US) Nick's Review, On Amy Madigan's Performance
The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn, US) Not Reviewed
Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger) Elisa's Review
• William Tell (Nick Hamm, UK/Switzerland) Abe's Review


AWAITING DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE DATE

Brides (Nadia Fall, UK) Abe's Review
Das Licht (Tom Tykwer, Germany) Elisa's Review
Didn't Die (Meera Menon) Abe's Review
Dreams (Michel Franco) Elisa's Review
Eagles of the Republic (Tarek Salah, Sweden) Cláudio's Review, Sweden's Oscar Submission
The Grace (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy) Elisa's Review
Heightened Scrutiny (Sam Feder, US) DOCUMENTARY Abe's Review
• Islands (Jan Ole Gerster, Germany) Elisa's Review
It Would Be Night in Caracas (Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás, Mexico/Venezuela) Cláudio's Review
Living the Land (Huo Meng, China) Elisa's Review
Middletown (Amanda McBain & Jesse Moss, US) DOCUMENTARY Abe's Review
Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Cespedess, Chile) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
Nino (Pauline Loquè, ) Cláudio's Review
Noviembre (Tomas Corredor, Colombia) Cláudio's Review
Pillion (Harry Lighton, UK) Elisa's Review
Reflections in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium) Elisa's Review 
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinksi, Germany) Elisa's Review, Germany's Oscar Submission
Sukkwan Island (Vladimir De Fontenay, France/Norway) Abe's Review 
The Sun Also Rises () Cláudio's Review
Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Island) (Sierra Falconer, US) Abe's Review  
Tale of the Silyan (Tamara Kotevska, North Maceonia)  Cláudio's Review, North Macedonian Oscar Submission
Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Shô Miyake, Japan) Cláudio's Review

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