First, my apologies for the paucity of current reviews. I am grateful to my colleague Joe Baker, who continues to do a fine job in showcasing repertory screenings in our area, but my own screening …

Simon Rumley's dispiriting drama CRUSHED shows faith tested, forgiveness abandoned, revenge misdirected - and the business of images exposed

The recently launched Punjab Film City is like a light at the end of a dark tunnel for the Pakistani film industry, since enough has been discussed about the lack of resources and weak infrastructure in this area. This is, indeed, a healthy step towards enabling local filmmakers to tell their unique stories to the world, and letting the world know about Pakistani culture on its own terms. Pakistan is not devoid of talent. New films with strong stories are released every year, with many also making their way to international film festivals. Experimental filmmaking is something that the region has just begun to explore with its latest release of Zombeid (2026). New streaming projects are on the rise due to the rapidly growing OTT... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: 'Appofeniacs' and 'Misty Green.'

David Ayer directs the wilderness adventure two-hander. Make that six-hander.

Mamoru Oshii ('Ghost in the Shell') tells a mysterious story in a mesmerizing fashion, now on 4K from GKids.

In Julia Kowalski’s witchy fable HER WILL BE DONE, an alienated adolescent woman embraces her mother’s legacy amid parochial patriarchy

In Jorge Thielen Armand’s Venezuelan allegory DEATH HAS NO MASTER, a deceased colonial farmer's daughter returns to a contested inheritance

Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.

Celebrated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the pages of Japanese manga for inspiration once again, unveiling this thoughtful adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed 2021 coming-of-age one-shot, Look Back. Reuniting actresses Natsuki Deguchi and Aju Makita, both of whom featured prominently in the director’s 2023 Netflix drama series The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, the film tells the story of two burgeoning young mangaka, who meet in junior high school and forge a life-long friendship.   Look Back was previously brought to the screen in 2024 by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, whose 58-minute anime was met with rapturous praise and no small degree of surprise. Up until that point, there had been only glimpses of this kind of emotional tenderness in Fujimoto’s work, who was best known... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

It’s hard to fathom that If I Go Will They Miss Me is a debut film. Yes, it’s expanded from writer-director Walther Thompson-Hernandez’s Sundance winning short film of the same name, but it’s so as…

Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas reprise their roles in the British spy series.

Also: Anthony Mingella's 'The English Patient,' Pietro Germi's 'Divorce Italian Style,' Ernst Lubitsch's 'The Shop Around the Corner,' and 'Sara Gómez's Revolutionary Cuba.'

John Wilson's documentary is illuminating, fascinating, hilarious, and poignant.

The Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen (a.k.a. Flushing) started this year on a high note with its opening film Youri, by Sander Burger. The festival always has a large section dedicated to literary adaptations, and its main theme this year is "Moed", the Dutch word for courage. Youri fits the section, as it is an adaptation of Jan Brokken's biographical novel "In the House of the Poet" about his friendship with superstar pianist Youri Egerov. It also fits the theme of "Courage", in several parts of the story, some of which are obvious, but some of which I will not spoil. The film starts in Amsterdam in the 1980s, a few years after the famous Russian pianist Youri Egerov has fled to the... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]