Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet 2023
THE TRUTH, APPROXIMATELY
Anatomy of a Fall
A man falls. A marriage is put on trial. Justine Triet’s razor-sharp courtroom drama knows the verdict was never really the question.
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
Dune: Part Two
Villeneuve turns Herbert’s warning into the most beautiful trap ever projected — a holy war scored to the sound of your own awe betraying you.
- Dir.
- Denis Villeneuve
- Year
- 2024
- Genre
- Sci-Fi · Adventure
- Words
- Ian
Dune: Part Two
Denis Villeneuve 2024
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The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer 2023
THE WALL
The Zone of Interest
Glazer builds a horror film out of a happy family and a garden wall. What lives on the other side of that wall, you are never shown — and never allowed to forget.
Past Lives
Celine Song 2023
IN-YUN
Past Lives
Celine Song’s debut is a quiet devastation — a film about the lives we don’t live, told with the patience of someone who has already grieved them.
Features
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniels 2022
BE A ROCK
Everything Everywhere All at Once
A laundromat, a multiverse, and a mother who can’t talk to her daughter. The Daniels throw everything at the wall — and somewhere in the chaos, find the most generous film of its year.
The Vault
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-wai 2000
THAT ERA HAS PASSED
In the Mood for Love
Twenty-five years on, Wong Kar-wai’s masterpiece of restraint and longing has only sharpened. The great film about the love that never happens.
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