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Michael Atkinson

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The Best Movies of an Un-Best Year – and WTF With Just Ten?

The last list of the underrepresented films of 2024, which you likely didn’t hear much about — but need to see, stat.

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Review: ‘Nosferatu’ Arrives Christmas Day as the Perfect Goth Geek Gift

Robert Eggers’s remake of the 103-year-old classic might not be as timeless, but its vision of old-world bloodletting proves timely.

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Review: For Audiences, ‘The Brutalist’ Lives Up to Its Title 

Brady Corbet’s three-plus-hour rise-and-fall-and-then-sideways extravaganza erects an edifice that doesn’t quite stand up. 

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Review: ‘The Girl with the Needle’ is a Chilling Iron Maiden of a Film 

Magnus von Horn and Line Langebek’s World War I–era tale mixes serial killings with foreshadowings of today’s war over reproductive rights.

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The Long Black Friday: Cinematic Gifts You Can Hold In Your Hands

Treat those on your nice — or naughty — list to hard copies of enduring classics, beguiling chills, riot-grrrl ferocity, and earnestly inept porn.

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Review: ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Bears Rebellious Fruit

Mohammad Rasoulof aims his film’s ire squarely at Iran’s theocracy.

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Review: ‘All We Imagine as Light’ Casts Fleeting Shadows

The award-winning film focuses on the wary, the reticent, and the repressed.

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Review: ‘The Graduates’ Carry On, Mourning Classmates Lost to a School Shooting

Hannah Peterson’s first feature relies so heavily on Mina Sundwall’s aching performance, it could’ve been a silent film.

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Review: Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’ Focuses More on Art Than on People

Artifacts speak for themselves as they embark on a long journey home.

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A Guy Maddin Survey Revels in His Dreamy, Deadpan, Dizzying DIY Dramas 

Screening four decades’ worth of the Canadian filmmaker’s celluloid fever dreams at IFC. 

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