Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing

Hadn’t seen any of Devor’s films before and while I was familiar with Moore’s attempt this did do a great deal to capture everything that surrounded it; some especially good drone shots, and the limitations indicated in the opening title cards makes this all the more impressive.

SUBURBAN FURY: Generates a wonderful amount of tension from both Devor’s wittily eerie settings and the amazing truculence and irascibility of his subject; captures the paranoia of a nation’s past and present without offering any solutions, for the better.

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The Best Films of 2025 Our critics rank their favorite movies of the year.

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The 50 best films of 2025 Our annual international critics’ poll of 2025's best movies shows cinema thriving in a year of troubles

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics

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“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off from the modern world.

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Haven’t read the Johnson novella but the narration feels constantly intrusive even from Patton, and everything involving the Chinese worker is clumsy at best; felt similarly negative about Bentley and Kwedar’s previous effort SING SING but oddly for quite different reasons.

TRAIN DREAMS: Has little of either the filmmaking rigor or the imaginative freedom to really summon the kind of expansive portrait of a quiet life fully lived that Bentley is trying to go for; rushes where it should linger, plods along when it should fly.

For a variety of reasons (save cinematography) this is much closer to THE BRUTALIST than THE WORLD TO COME which doesn’t seem to suit Fastvold’s strengths, though Blumberg’s score is pretty spectacular; Seyfried does her best to sell her character’s otherworldly qualities.

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE: The general fairy tale quality that Fastvold attempts to conjure here doesn’t harmonize well with the often bludgeoning approach to character and setting, though the ambition and willingness to take faith on its own terms is admirable; of interest.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Plays It Too Safe The Netflix movie, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, is lavish and meticulous—and strangely hollow.

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Very unfortunate last RT with this context

me: “today i will be helping to cook thanksgiving dinner and spending time with my friends and family.” 🍽️

also me: “hopefully i will have the chance to watch some football as well.” 🏈

it’s impossible to make your own pasta from scratch at home. no one has ever done it

every thanksgiving, me and my family eat thanksgiving dinner

the license plate on my $1000 sports car says “MR THANKSGIVING” because i celebrate thanksgiving each and every year

i'm way better than all of the dogs in the dog show. i can ride a bike, i can cook meals, and i'm very familiar with computers. i can do all kinds of things that they will never be able to do

College Football Time Remaining57m College football teams from around the country will intensely compete against one another, as expert analysts give play-by-play commentary.

Very good guide description written by @jonbois.bsky.social

tonight was the night the legend of arch manning began. this was his moment. sorry, i don't really watch college football that much, i didn't watch this game, and i don't even know if he's good or not. i just felt like saying some stuff

@jonbois.bsky.social watching football

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here is THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, episode 2:
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@jonbois.bsky.social watching football

BEST FILM: One Battle After Another

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