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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
• Frankenstein (Guillermo Del Toro, US) Cláudio's Review 
• Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, US/France) Cláudio'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 ˚© 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 ReviewCláudio'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 ReviewCláudio 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 CapsuleElisa'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. (US) Not Reviewed DEC 3
† Olivia & Las Nubes ()
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's ReviewBIFA 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 CapsuleBrazilian Oscar Submission 
Sentimental Value (Trier, Norway) Elisa's Capsule, Cláudio's Review, Eurocheese CapsuleNorwegian 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 ReviewGermany'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

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