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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) 91% 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) 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) 91% 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 Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% 2.4/4 EDIT “There are some wild melodramatic curve balls along the way, and the actors are committed.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 2, 2026 Full Review KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “A cheeky fusion of anime and American animation with a fascinating, Myazaki-esque overlay of Korean folklore.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Bride of Re-Animator (1990) 56% C+ EDIT “The original Re-Animator was made by an artist working on a wicked, energetic high. Bride of Re-Animator is a smart piece of hack work. In the end, it’s best left standing at the altar.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “Anyway, the parts that are good are quite good – agreeably silly while freighted with emotional weight – and I’ll watch Kikuchi in anything, as should you. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 95% EDIT “I say stick with it, for writer-director Beth de Araújo’s subtle, pointillistic filmmaking, for Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan’s performances as the parents , and especially for Mason Reeves as Josephine.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Feb 9, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/4 EDIT “The Secret Agent is about loss – specifically, the loss of connection, of community, that accompanies the coming of tyranny, and about the communities that form in secret as a result. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “The guiding intelligence and pervading mournfulness is all Pasha’s as he watches the light in his students' eyes slowly dim to darkness.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “I was entertained, even if for the longest stretches I couldn’t have told you who was doing what to whom. Chalk it up as yet another twist in the tale of Matt ‘n’ Ben – two Yin/Yang talents who will be yoked together for eternity.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Zelig (1983) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Zelig is a movie that will remain timeless as long as people are willing to sell their souls to be part of something. It’s very funny until the laughs stick in your throat.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review
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