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Mercy (2026) 24% 2/5 EDIT “Does Mercy really expect us to accept that an AI’s pursuit of justice – something it manifestly cannot care about, since it has no values – will lead it toward human personality traits? ” – Spectrum Culture Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Dead Man’s Wire more than a portrayal of vintage eccentricity. It is a deeply political drama, using a strange historical, occasionally funny, incident to make sense of institutional rot that persists today.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “The Plague is not looking for your pity: it is an unblinking portrayal of bullying’s cascading effect, and how the line between victim and perpetrator is sometimes not so obvious.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 4.5/5 EDIT “Safdie's film is less of a sports drama and more of an anxiety-fueled nightmare, a sustained effort to put the audience into the mental and physical space of a fast-talking operator who only tells the truth when it is convenient. ” – Spectrum Culture Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% EDIT “Feig could have easily cut an hour to make a breezy, nasty work that would scarcely give anyone time to breathe. Instead, The Housemaid plods along, inspiring more of a shrug than the catharsis it dearly craves.” – Washington City Paper Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “This kind of singular experience has impact and value, just an ephemeral one, and that phenomenon is more noticeable now than with the previous two movies. Fire and Ash is not the best Avatar, just the MOST Avatar.” – Spectrum Culture Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Atropia (2025) 40% 1/5 EDIT “Inert and tedious, it is a dark comedy that lacks a firm sense of reality or history. No one who lived through the period it depicts will recognize it or think to themselves, "Wow, they really captured what it was like."” – Spectrum Culture Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s the lively, freewheeling quality of The Secret Agent that makes it so compelling. Its characters find passion and community amid a state that seeks absolute control because, after years under a dictatorship, dignity is its own kind of rebellion.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “It is the kind of parody that is perfect for long-suffering spouses and significant others who have no choice but to watch Masterpiece Theater with their partners, and even longtime Downton devotees may be surprised by how much they chuckle along.” – Spectrum Culture Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 88% EDIT “The Stranger is a minor triumph of style serving substance. The gorgeous depiction of mid-century Algiers, coupled with Voisin’s screen presence, are absorbing because Meursault’s conduct remains tantalizingly elusive—at least until the defiant climax. ” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 95% EDIT “There is a lot to consider and debate in this film, but it ultimately unfolds like a thought exercise. With its deadpan comic discursions and romantic trysts, Jude has created the kind of art-house fare that’s more fun to discuss than it is to experience.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “Raw emotion defines the untrained actor’s performance and offers a reminder of what the Dardennes can achieve when their unique storytelling method reaches its high point.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% EDIT “Splitting the difference between Whiplash and Call Me By Your Name, the Slovenian coming-of-age drama Little Trouble Girls is sharply observed and sincere. ” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Case 137 (2025) 92% EDIT “To watch how bad cops lie and distort the truth is to share Stéphanie’s simmering rage. Only then can we see the film’s provocative thesis: Good cops are secretly idealistic, no matter their taciturn, borderline cynical exterior.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 94% EDIT “Fans of 2015’s Phoenix and 2018’s Transit may be frustrated by this more minor undertaking. But if you let go and ride the vibe then you might forget the director’s masterpieces and long for company this nurturing.” – Washington City Paper Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “By overstaying its welcome, it is easier to see that the movie’s ideas are incomplete, and a charming cast can only compensate so much for it.” – Spectrum Culture Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 1/5 EDIT “It skirts the ethical and moral implications of its premise, just so it can indulge in the drama at a surface level. These are messy, bizarre, grotesque situations that are sanitized for Hallmark card poignancy.” – Spectrum Culture Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “Joel Edgerton’s performance is a moving blend of character and performer, giving his performance a powerful quality because we can see how much is held back. ” – Washington City Paper Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 4/5 EDIT “By being transparent in his point of view, James Vanderbilt recalls classic mid-century Hollywood dramas where strong, forceful actors create drama and suspense primarily through conversation, which ultimately reinforces shared values. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3.5/5 EDIT “This is a film about unbridled emotion, not a story with an easily resolvable plot, and there is genuine power in its more harrowing moments.” – Spectrum Culture Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Not only does Johnson find a clever solution to an "impossible" crime, he uses the mystery genre to explore religion’s place in modern life. In more ways than one, his devout hero needs faith in order to survive.” – Washington City Paper Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Violent Ends (2025) 67% 1.5/5 EDIT “This is action at its most hollow, just a bloody showcase for its own sake, something made abundantly clear by the director’s apparent disinterest in his story's subtext. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 4, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “Panahi loathes authoritarianism, but his alternative offers no easy answers. It’s this thrilling provocation and acknowledgment of humanity that elevates It Was Just an Accident beyond a mere thriller.” – Washington City Paper Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “It is too breezy and scrappy for an intellectual exercise. Instead, Linklater depicts a clash of sensibilities, a kind of temporary family where everyone tolerates one another for a greater purpose. ” – Spectrum Culture Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “In high Gothic style, the story of the mad scientist and his hideous creation has never been more visually sumptuous. With terrific performances to boot, del Toro’s long-awaited film is the definitive movie version of the classic novel.” – Washington City Paper Oct 28, 2025 Full Review
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