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Christy (2025) 100% EDIT “It internalizes the "it takes a village" approach that blends community support with state-provided assistance. Boys like Christy need both to succeed, a hard truth that is both a challenge and opportunity.” – Washington City Paper Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Aontas (2025) EDIT “A backward screenplay comes with risks; Aontas sidesteps them with a sharp attention to detail. Some images or details might seem inconsequential, but their importance are made clear as it hurdles toward the "beginning." ” – Washington City Paper Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Horseshoe (2025) EDIT “Horseshoe is ultimately a stinging illustration of how the death of a parent—even when you’re well past middle age—is another kind of coming-of-age. ” – Washington City Paper Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man (2025) EDIT “It’s up to the viewer to determine how much of Adams’ commentary they accept, but on a subtextual level, it’s fascinating to watch a politician grapple with his commitment to the truth while indulging in utterly human delusions of grandeur. ” – Washington City Paper Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Girls & Boys (2025) EDIT “Secrets and revelations heighten the drama, while the actors keep the story grounded. Hannon is a striking performer, whose mix of vulnerability and defiance showcase her star material.” – Washington City Paper Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 93% EDIT “Maybe you won’t need to re-litigate the incident like an Irish soccer supporter, but then again, digging into someone else’s real-life drama is a delicious pleasure that never gets old.” – Washington City Paper Feb 26, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 46% 2/5 EDIT “Watching a criminal get away with theft and murder can be funny, as long it arrives with the requisite charm. Powell and Ford never find that, and we are left with wooden performance surrounded by incomplete subplots. Where did it all go wrong?” – Spectrum Culture Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Mimics (2025) 1/5 EDIT “The biggest testament to this film’s overwhelming ineptitude is how the unintentional anti-climax barely registers as a problem because much of what preceded it is already that much worse.” – Spectrum Culture Feb 17, 2026 Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% EDIT “The desire to educate increases the potential for sanctimony. Dabis nearly gets into that territory, then relents by finally following the nature of her characters. Parts of the film, especially the quieter final messages, are genuinely moving.” – Washington City Paper Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “Send Help is more akin to a dark comedy with a lot of blood and guts. So much blood and guts, in fact, that there are moments where you won’t know whether to laugh or puke.” – Washington City Paper Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “Pillion is easily the more satisfying film because it avoids cliches for something more psychologically astute. Colin and Ray’s relationship is depicted with real poignance because the film respects who they are as individuals without judgment.” – Washington City Paper Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% 2/5 EDIT “Does Mercy really expect us to accept that an AI’s pursuit of justice – something it manifestly cannot care about, since it has no values – will lead it toward human personality traits? ” – Spectrum Culture Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Dead Man’s Wire more than a portrayal of vintage eccentricity. It is a deeply political drama, using a strange historical, occasionally funny, incident to make sense of institutional rot that persists today.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “The Plague is not looking for your pity: it is an unblinking portrayal of bullying’s cascading effect, and how the line between victim and perpetrator is sometimes not so obvious.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “Safdie's film is less of a sports drama and more of an anxiety-fueled nightmare, a sustained effort to put the audience into the mental and physical space of a fast-talking operator who only tells the truth when it is convenient. ” – Spectrum Culture Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 73% EDIT “Feig could have easily cut an hour to make a breezy, nasty work that would scarcely give anyone time to breathe. Instead, The Housemaid plods along, inspiring more of a shrug than the catharsis it dearly craves.” – Washington City Paper Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “This kind of singular experience has impact and value, just an ephemeral one, and that phenomenon is more noticeable now than with the previous two movies. Fire and Ash is not the best Avatar, just the MOST Avatar.” – Spectrum Culture Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Atropia (2025) 41% 1/5 EDIT “Inert and tedious, it is a dark comedy that lacks a firm sense of reality or history. No one who lived through the period it depicts will recognize it or think to themselves, "Wow, they really captured what it was like."” – Spectrum Culture Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s the lively, freewheeling quality of The Secret Agent that makes it so compelling. Its characters find passion and community amid a state that seeks absolute control because, after years under a dictatorship, dignity is its own kind of rebellion.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “It is the kind of parody that is perfect for long-suffering spouses and significant others who have no choice but to watch Masterpiece Theater with their partners, and even longtime Downton devotees may be surprised by how much they chuckle along.” – Spectrum Culture Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 88% EDIT “The Stranger is a minor triumph of style serving substance. The gorgeous depiction of mid-century Algiers, coupled with Voisin’s screen presence, are absorbing because Meursault’s conduct remains tantalizingly elusive—at least until the defiant climax. ” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 95% EDIT “There is a lot to consider and debate in this film, but it ultimately unfolds like a thought exercise. With its deadpan comic discursions and romantic trysts, Jude has created the kind of art-house fare that’s more fun to discuss than it is to experience.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “Raw emotion defines the untrained actor’s performance and offers a reminder of what the Dardennes can achieve when their unique storytelling method reaches its high point.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% EDIT “Splitting the difference between Whiplash and Call Me By Your Name, the Slovenian coming-of-age drama Little Trouble Girls is sharply observed and sincere. ” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Case 137 (2025) 92% EDIT “To watch how bad cops lie and distort the truth is to share Stéphanie’s simmering rage. Only then can we see the film’s provocative thesis: Good cops are secretly idealistic, no matter their taciturn, borderline cynical exterior.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review
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