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What Does That Nature Say to You 2025
From Berlinale 2025:
If you’re familiar with Hong Sangsoo, you might think you know what to expect from “What Does that Nature Say to You.” The Korean DIY extraordinaire pumps out new movies practically between meals, each with its own naturalistic observations about characters engaging in casual chatter, but whose disarming malaise resides deep within. His 33rd feature holds true to that broad approach, with soothing conversations eventually giving way to a handful of revelations stemming from repressed opinions. However,…
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The Monkey 2025
Wind up a sinister toy primate and someone dies. That rule ought to be simple and streamlined enough to follow, but in Osgood Perkins' The Monkey, it makes for a scattershot narrative conceit, swinging quickly from humorous, Rube Goldberg-ian kills, to some kind of spiritual possession, to unfortunate medical emergencies — all with no explanation. This is, on the surface, "like life" — the phrase branded on the old-fashioned hatbox in which the cursed trinket is discovered — but the…
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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
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The stars have aligned politically for Marvel Studios. The promise of Captain America: Brave New World is not unlike that of Donald’s Trump’s destructive new presidency: you could have the lowest of expectations and still be miserable and disappointed. It’s a movie that has a lot on its tongue and nothing on its mind, and while many have speculated about its reshoots, the result doesn’t so much feel overstuffed as it does like…
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Mickey 17 2025
From Berlinale 2025:
The uniquely bleak Mickey 17 has chosen its cultural moment with precision (and a little bit of serendipity). After numerous delays – it was originally set to open in March 2024 – Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to Parasite debuts as the first proper Trump Era 2.0 movie. It's a jet-black, mean-as-hell sci-fi comedy about a near future in which life itself has been corporatized and reduced in value by a foppish upper class that hides its totalitarian aims…
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