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Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story (2026) EDIT “ A pure, unfiltered blast of joy.” – Moveable Fest Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Kill Me (2026) 100% EDIT “Externalizing the steps of deeply internal emotional progress Jimmy and Margot make with one another’s help can occasionally seem like a separate pursuit from satisfying genre expectations when it really does appear there’s a killer on the loose.” – Variety Mar 14, 2026 Full Review Beyond the Duplex Planet (2026) EDIT “Beth Harrington's profile of David Greenberger, an artist whose sideline in social work led to a creative breakthrough, rethinks what art is.” – Moveable Fest Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Grind (2026) 90% EDIT “In a world where productivity is desired above all else, righteous fury is channeled towards something useful in what ultimately is a fierce entertainment.” – Moveable Fest Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Phenomena (2026) EDIT “The dazzling display of scientific experiments can often appear as a psychedelic trip, but [the film] is able to convey the physics so they can be easily understood and demystified.” – Moveable Fest Mar 6, 2026 Full Review On a String (2025) EDIT “Uncertainty may reign supreme in "On a String," but the story itself is in assured hands of someone who knows where they’re going.” – Moveable Fest Mar 1, 2026 Full Review Iván & Hadoum (2026) EDIT “Shifting the burden from the people to the places they inhabit to express their experience in ways they might not be able to articulate for themselves proves keenly insightful in this delicate drama about star-crossed lovers.” – Moveable Fest Feb 18, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 35% EDIT “Bringing the truth out isn’t always elegant in "At the Sea," but when presented with this much bravery and personality, it becomes undeniable.” – Moveable Fest Feb 16, 2026 Full Review Mouse (2026) 100% EDIT “O’Sullivan and Thompson may make it look easy themselves to create a world in which no one feels out of place, but "Mouse" sneaks up to pack a wallop because of everything going on below the surface.” – Moveable Fest Feb 16, 2026 Full Review One in a Million (2026) 100% EDIT “"One in a Million" is exceptionally relatable separated from any international context at all in presenting their three main subjects as deeply complicated people whose lives are made only more so by one another as they adjust to a new normal.” – Moveable Fest Feb 11, 2026 Full Review The Friend's House Is Here (2026) 100% EDIT “In a time when the arts are being attacked everywhere, it’s refreshing to be reminded of the danger they pose with as fierce as a defense of them as Ataei and Keshavarz’s lovely portrait of the home proves to be.” – Moveable Fest Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Jane Elliott Against the World (2026) 100% EDIT “The mere example of someone willing to start the conversation in the first place seems to be what will open the door to even more in "Jane Elliott Against the World," where getting loud has a surprising amount of nuance in it.” – Moveable Fest Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Tooth Shop Fiasco (2026) EDIT “For those that enjoy random escapades, especially of the variety that might be mistaken for hallucinations by tuning into Adult Swim in the wee hours of the night, "Tooth Shop Fiasco" has enough laughing gas to keep it going.” – Moveable Fest Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% EDIT “When Greaves and crew were crouched into corners just trying to catch the action, the view can have the same voyeuristic appeal of peeking through a door, only "Once Upon a Time in Harlem" gives a fuller picture than has ever been seen before.” – Moveable Fest Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Wicker (2026) 91% EDIT “There are double entendres a plenty with a narrative built around wood, but "Wicker" operates with a level of sophistication that’s rare.” – Moveable Fest Feb 4, 2026 Full Review To Hold a Mountain (2026) 100% EDIT “"To Hold a Mountain" follows its lead when there are rarely any bold gestures, but the end result is mighty.” – Moveable Fest Feb 4, 2026 Full Review If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026) 96% EDIT “An enthralling expansion of the 2022 short of the same name... elegantly conveying the rocky relationship between a 12-year-old and his father after the latter comes back home to Watts after a prison stretch.” – Moveable Fest Feb 2, 2026 Full Review See You When I See You (2026) 71% EDIT “A touching, heartfelt dramedy.” – Moveable Fest Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Take Me Home (2026) 95% EDIT “Throughout Liz Sargent's heartrending debut," the basic routines of everyday life can be appreciated for how daunting they might be when the body or mind fail you as well as the grace that the people around to lend their support to prevent catastrophe.” – Moveable Fest Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Night Nurse (2026) 76% EDIT “When there’s a great deal of tension generated from what can be known by the characters at their age, whether young or old, the one comfort the film provides throughout is knowing you’re in exceptionally skilled and assured hands yourself.” – Moveable Fest Jan 27, 2026 Full Review American Doctor (2026) 100% EDIT “"American Doctor" is told with the urgency that the humanitarian crisis requires and for all the destruction it depicts, it builds an undeniable portrait of a systematic elimination of an entire culture.” – Moveable Fest Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Shitheads (2026) 72% EDIT “Perhaps a little less audacious than its title might suggest but wonderfully amusing nonetheless, the "I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore" director once again asks how average people might behave if caught up in a world of crime.” – Moveable Fest Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Bedford Park (2026) 96% EDIT “Ahn’s debut may be about how hard it is to see promise in anything once again after a lifetime of heartbreaks, small and big, but it’s easy to see it all over her raw yet radiant drama.” – Moveable Fest Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Nuisance Bear  (2026) 97% EDIT “An unexpected rumination on colonialism and immigration that may be more effective than most when it just hits differently.” – Moveable Fest Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Lake (2026) 100% EDIT “It certainly is of great concern that the lake could erode, but the film powerfully reflects what truly should be feared is end of an open dialogue.” – Moveable Fest Jan 24, 2026 Full Review
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