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The Plague (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “I admired The Plague but I confess that after a while it got repetitive, having run out of things to say. Still, it’s a slick and nasty piece of work—and I mean that in the best possible way.” – Baltimore Magazine Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “Chalamet is fantastic in this role. It may very well be his best work yet, in a career filled with excellent performances. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 29, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Secret Agent is a feast of sorts, overstuffed and beautiful, funny and sad.” – Baltimore Magazine Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3/4 EDIT “There’s excellent here work from Clooney, who gives arguably his best performance ever in this a meta dissection of his own career and of the strange paradox of having a life that belongs to everyone but yourself. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film’s final scenes, the ones that take us out of the awe and fury of nature and depict the premiere of Hamlet that Agnes reluctantly attends with her brother, Bartholomew (Joe Alwyn), are its best—stirring and literary and meaningful.” – Baltimore Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Trier, who has two young daughters himself, directs the whole affair with beauty and pathos and wit. His deeply humane film is an object lesson: You don’t need to be monomaniacal to make great art.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 20, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4/4 EDIT “It’s impossible to overstate how much fun this thing is, with twists and welcome detours along the way.” – Baltimore Magazine Oct 6, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “An underdog romance for an underdog city. Baltimoreans (or Baltimorons, if you prefer) will fall in love with it.” – Baltimore Magazine Sep 4, 2025 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, is a moving, if somewhat standard documentary featuring archival interviews with Buckley himself, lots of captivating footage of Buckley singing and recording, and a good number of intimate photos and recordings. ” – Baltimore Magazine Aug 11, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 2.5/4 EDIT “He wants us to feel uncomfortable (he succeeds) and he wants us to reflect on the craziness that we collectively experienced. I buy into the “tragedy plus time equals comedy” formula.” – Baltimore Magazine Jul 21, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% 2/4 EDIT “Although its unusual structure and smidge of Stephen King weirdness (it’s based on one of his novellas) saves it from being a complete washout.” – Baltimore Magazine Jun 23, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 2/4 EDIT “Despite good acting across the board, I never bought it. ” – Baltimore Magazine Jun 16, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “I was thoroughly entertained and left a bit cold. ” – Baltimore Magazine Jun 4, 2025 Full Review On Swift Horses (2024) 53% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film is too obsessed with surfaces to be particularly deep, but Daisy Edgar-Jones is especially good as a woman longing for something just out of her grasp and Will Poulter is a heartbreaking everyman. ” – Baltimore Magazine Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “It’s an example of my favorite genre—Manhattan intellectuals in life and love, dressed in lots of wool blends and tweed.” – Baltimore Magazine Apr 4, 2025 Full Review The Assessment (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “A provocative and sometimes squirm-inducingly funny sci-fi that gives its three leads lots of juicy material to chew on, with Vikander, in particular, turning her Virginia into a compellingly inscrutable, but not entirely unsympathetic, antagonist.” – Baltimore Magazine Mar 24, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “I feel like it has the makings of a cult classic—a dystopian space comedy/adventure with shades of Terry Gilliam. ” – Baltimore Magazine Mar 14, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 4/4 EDIT “A deeply personal story told on a grand scale. ” – Baltimore Magazine Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 3.5/4 EDIT “The funny thing about Babygirl is that, despite its taboo subject, it’s actually a very sweet film. ” – Baltimore Magazine Jan 6, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 3/5 EDIT “The film’s biggest thrill is watching the formation of an uncompromising artist and getting a little taste of what it must’ve been like to wander into Gerde’s Folk City on a random night and see a young man in a snap cap who was about to change the world.” – Baltimore Magazine Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Directed and performed with flair and obvious affection for the source material, Wicked is a wickedly good time at the movies. ” – Baltimore Magazine Nov 25, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 4/4 EDIT “All the acting is top notch, but Ralph Fiennes is nothing short of masterful as Lawrence, a good man caught in the maelstrom of these red-robed men and their outsized ambition, all while grieving the pope and suffering his own crisis of faith.” – Baltimore Magazine Oct 28, 2024 Full Review We Live in Time (2024) 79% 2/4 EDIT “It’s muddled and half-baked, even though the two actors give it their all and, yes, do convince us they’re an actual couple. ” – Baltimore Magazine Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Will & Harper (2024) 99% 3.5/4 EDIT “It broadens one’s understanding of the world and the humans who populate it. And it makes everyone feel good.” – Baltimore Magazine Oct 7, 2024 Full Review Between the Temples (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Between the Temples is often funny, sometimes uncomfortable to watch, and, despite its flaws, quite moving.” – Baltimore Magazine Sep 3, 2024 Full Review
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