Genre January brings three interesting and highly variable new crime films: “No Other Choice,” “The Rip” and “Dead Man’s Wire.”
“The Secret Agent” and “Father Mother Sister Brother” are family trees by two major filmmakers.
Institutional fallacy and brutal power plays in “The Plague” and “Cover-Up.”
Table tennis and Neil Diamond karaoke as respective vision quests in “Marty Supreme” and “Song Sung Blue.”
Our regular film critic looks back at his top 25 picks for '25.
Inept men, and the women who suffer them, in “The Mastermind” and “Keeper.”
Lost souls abound in the surprisingly soulful “Predators” and “Baltimorons.”
“Sentimental Value” and “Train Dreams” are bleak and worthy family dramas, just in time for the holidays.
“Nouvelle Vague” celebrates artistic triumph, while the swaggering “King Ivory” dramatizes domestic warfare.
“It Was Just an Accident” and “Die My Love” offer ferocious stories of home and hearth in peril.
Aliens, fascists, and alien fascists in “Bugonia” and “Anniversary.”
The struggles of the theater in “Blue Moon” and “Queens of the Dead.”
