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Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “A little too quiescent for my tastes, but Beer and Auer hold the screen like quicksilver and granite respectively.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 94% 4/4 EDIT “Schilinski’s second feature film is a stunner and a harbinger of major work ahead.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 3.5/4 EDIT “Writer-director Lighton, who adapted the script from Adam Mars-Jones' 2020 novel “Box Hill,” manages to make “Pillion” reasonably explicit, unreasonably funny and altogether charming – it’s a kink-fest you could take your grandmother to.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “An amusing little bear trap of a comedy about a corporate mouseburger stranded on a desert island with her boss.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 13, 2026 Full Review Through the Olive Trees (1994) 89% 4/4 EDIT “That romantic stalemate becomes the heart of the movie.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 13, 2026 Full Review And Life Goes On... (1992) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “And Life Goes On is observant of the human dilemma in all its calamity and comedy.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 13, 2026 Full Review Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) 100% 4/4 EDIT “It’s a lovely film, one that reminds us that children are innately moral until life and grown-ups convince them otherwise, and the response from the audience was one of intensely warm gratitude for a story that restores faith in humanity.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 13, 2026 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% 4/4 EDIT “As lengthy as it is, "My Undesirable Friends" flows well. It's an easy watch, if a devastating and cautionary one. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “With “Project Hail Mary” they’ve opted to go Spielberg on us, which is to say soft. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 23, 2026 Full Review The Devil Is Busy (2024) 4/4 EDIT “Directors Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton do their best work profiling the nurses, doctors, and security officers who understand the mission, calculate the dangers and remember who they’re there for day after day after day.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review All the Empty Rooms (2025) 92% 4/4 EDIT “The film's great power comes from naming the dead and briefly bringing each unique child back to life, with tiny details that can wreck you with their specificity. It's a movie to fill a viewer with freshened loss and renewed resolve.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025) 3.5/4 EDIT “A stirring reminder of the increasing threat to journalists around the globe.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Children No More: Were and Are Gone (2025) 3/4 EDIT “A powerful and complex portrait of a society desperately holding its fingers in its ears. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Perfectly a Strangeness (2024) 2.5/4 EDIT “Pretty to look at, evocative in a muzzy way, it vanishes pleasurably from the memory upon viewing.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Two People Exchanging Saliva (2024) 3.5/4 EDIT “Written and directed by the team of Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh, the film gathers strength as it goes and plays like a “Twilight Zone” remake of Todd Haynes’ “Carol.”” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Jane Austen's Period Drama (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Silly and clever in alternating doses, it benefits from pitch-perfect production values and Samantha Smart as the heroine’s panic-stricken sister Labinia.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Butcher's Stain (2025) 3/5 EDIT “ A tough, infuriating tale of a no-win situation.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review The Singers (2026) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Funny, humane and mysteriously potent, this lifts off from a simple premise – a crew of old rummies at a dive bar engage in an impromptu singing contest – and it travels just far enough to linger in the memory. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review A Friend of Dorothy (2025) 2.5/4 EDIT “Overwritten sentimental overkill and a shameless hambone of a performance. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Retirement Plan (2024) 4/5 EDIT “This Irish short about a complacent fellow (voiced by Domhnall Gleeson) who imagines all the things he’ll do when he no longer has to work moves calmly from the mundane to the cosmic and accumulates a sweetly existential power. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Butterfly (2024) 4/5 EDIT “A nearly perfect marriage of subject, style and sound, and an emotional killer.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review The Three Sisters (2024) 3/4 EDIT “It ain’t Chekhov, but it’s fun.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review The Girl Who Cried Pearls (2025) 2.5/4 EDIT ““Girl” offers a harsh Dickensian tale of penury, greed, love and regret, features characters who look like haunted bobbleheads and eventually disappears up its own narrative hindquarters.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Forevergreen (2025) 2/4 EDIT “It’s an independent labor of love that tells a simple, mawkish story with a vague ecological theme.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “The cast of mostly first-time actors is unforgettable, each face elemental in its own way, and it’s wonderful to see López in a sympathetic role.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 12, 2026 Full Review
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