Bugonia
"All we've lost. All that's been done to us. We're setting that right again."
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New Hampshire Film Festival 2025 Wrap-Up
My time at my favorite film festival was somewhat different this year, partially due to their scheduling, and partially due to my own choices. While my previous three years attending NHFF has always included its share of buzzy titles and works from big name filmmakers, part of what I always
Black Phone 2
"You and me know, Finny, that fear is just the beginning."
Good Boy
Have you ever wondered what it's like to experience a creepy house as a dog?
Tron: Ares
"Maybe what emerges from the unknown isn’t so scary. What if [AI's] major malfunction is just benevolence?"
Roofman
"How many McDonald's robberies would it take to afford a mid-size family home in the suburbs? Turns out, 45."
Anemone
"Romans make Romans."
The Smashing Machine
"Winning is the most incredible feeling in the world."
One Battle After Another
"Every revolution begins fighting demons. The motherfuckers just end up fighting themselves."
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
"You can drive yourself crazy trying to be happy. Be content first."
The Baltimorons
"Well, I guess that makes me the Ghost of Christmas Present. Cliff Cashen, still really really thrilled to be here, gang. Thank you."
Rabbit Trap
Judging purely by scale, Rabbit Trap could have been made during the depths of the COVID pandemic. Set on an isolated Welsh hillside that gives way to a dense and disorienting forest pushes thoughts of the wider world out of your mind. The cast consists of just four people, one
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Lurker
"What's the difference between love and obsession? I can never tell them apart."
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The Long Walk
"Where else would you be given such an opportunity?! Nowhere else, that's the answer!"
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Honey Don't!
"We are not macaroni!"
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Relay
Between the complications inherent in releasing movies during the COVID pandemic, lending his voice to animated features, and the limited theatrical runs enjoyed by most streaming studio fare, Relay marks Riz Ahmed's return to the screen in a starring role. So it's quite bold that for
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The Toxic Avenger (2025)
"Side effects include fever, foolishness, and butt guts."
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Caught Stealing
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth."
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The Roses
Welcome to the year of the romcom! Much has been made of the genre’s disappearance from the theatrical experience. True, they still flood streaming services, with Netflix distributing the best of recent years in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. But with the exception of Anyone But You, few have
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Highest 2 Lowest
"All money ain't good money."
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Jimmy and Stiggs
After a couple of fake trailers for amusingly dumb horror flicks, it was a genuine surprise that the opening of the film was shot from Jimmy's perspective. We're along for the ride in real-time as Jimmy putters and mutters about his apartment, doing coke and smoking
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Strange Harvest
True crime has been around for hundreds of years, arising not long after the invention of the printing press. Whether it serves as a warning to the populace that a pleasant neighborhood is no guarantee of safety, or as pure entertainment designed to satiate our innate curiosity about the unfathomable
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Weapons
The culture war is sustained largely by reducing children to pawns, devices to deflect all criticism, stripping them of their agency and their voice. It's reaching a fever pitch, with the federal government and state administrations pushing various polices under the guise of protecting kids: book bans, barring
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Together
"No dissent, only warmth."