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SIFF 2026: The Friend’s House is Here
Written by Eric Zhu
“Centered on the friendship between two female artists Hanna and Pari, the film opens on one of Pari’s shows, a piece of Brechtian performance art where actors enact their daily routines within a white soundstage. This prefaces a fizzy hangout film about cosmopolitan urban…”
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Cannes 2026: 9 Temples to Heaven
Written by Eric Zhu
“…tensions surface in the merit ceremonies, where some temples have been refashioned to appeal to a modern audience and nearly all leverage spirituality as a means to earn donations. At the second temple, a monk stresses the importance of mindfulness, warning against the temptations of…”
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SIFF 2026: Barbara Forever
Written by Eric Zhu
“Many cinema-goers, even serious cinephiles, have little context for avant-garde cinema. It’s easy to understand the impetus behind a documentary like “Barbara Forever,” which provides a rare introduction to a towering figure in the field.”
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Cannes 2026: La Perra (2026)
Written by Eric Zhu
“Dominga Sotomayor’s “La Perra” is both perfectly judged and ravishingly beautiful. Set on a remote island in the South of Chile, the film is situated within a community of seaweed harvesters, one of whom, Silvia, has her regimented lifestyle disrupted when…”
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SIFF 2026: Assets & Liabilities
Written by Eric Zhu
“In a better world, we’d have many more independent films like Zach Weintraub’s “Assets & Liabilities.” This is a film that’s formalist but not over-directed, funny and anxious, but not solipsistic. It’s set in a specific time and place (a present-day gentrified Tacoma), with people and places that feel real rather…
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SIFF 2026: EIGHT BRIDGES
Written by Eric Zhu
“The evocation of 16mm, which once seemed inextricable from Benning’s blue-collar class background, has an obvious connection to these hollowed-out landscapes. These resonances are enhanced by…”
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Season 1)
Written by Anna Harrison
“Adaptations of George R. R. Martin’s work have been, historically, uneven. “Game of Thrones” works for at least four seasons as a television series, but fundamentally fails to understand the thematic thrust of Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. “House of the Dragon,” on the other hand, understands the…
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Project Hail Mary
Written by Taylor Baker
“Lord and Miller, after being away for 12 years, have made an exceptionally broad and watchable film with a star (Ryan Gosling) whose affability and vulnerability find a serviceable home in…”
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Game of Thrones Retrospective: “Lord Snow”
Written by Anna Harrison
““Lord Snow” lets us take our time, smell the roses, and is all the better for it. With each episode, we grow closer to the characters and the world becomes more understandable; luckily, Benioff and Weiss take their time in this first season, and the show is all the richer for…
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Written by Livvy O’Brien
“The star of the film might just be the Baker house itself, a space that feels so authentically cluttered and lived-in. The walls are a curated gallery of the children’s paintings and artwork and the windows bear the faint smudges of little hands. There are no matching dish sets, instead…”
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The Smashing Machine
Written by Patrick Hao
“Kerr is a hulking man, mainly torso, who spoke softly and thought deeply – the antithesis of the macho confident image that you would associate with a man of his size, or, in this case, the Hollywood star that would play him, Dwayne Johnson.”
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Game of Thrones Retrospective: “The Kingsroad”
Written by Anna Harrison
“In this single cut from the condemned direwolf to Bran’s opened eyes, we see the benefits of a filmed adaptation. Within Martin’s limited POV structure in “ASOIAF,” this moment cannot exist; while he positions these chapters (Eddard III and Bran III) side-by-side, the juxtaposition is not nearly as strong…”
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Written by Anna Harrison
“For the first time, Blanc encounters someone who challenges him; while Blanc scoffs at church and religion, Jud forces him to recognize the good it can do…”
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Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad)
Written by Eric Zhu
“Shot in telephoto long takes with little to no acknowledgment of an outside world, Serra once again works in the present, but molds reality into something elemental and timeless. In a way, the film is…”
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Game of Thrones Retrospective: “Winter Is Coming”
Written by Anna Harrison
“Being one of those annoying people who have complexes about reading the source material before watching the adaptation, I simply had to read Martin’s work before dipping my toe into the show. I devoured them with a passion I had scarcely felt from my “Harry Potter” days, and then attempted to…
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