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EOY: Afternoons of Solitude
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November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
EOY: Afternoons of Solitude
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Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
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December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
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Went back on TV to talk movies. Specifically, broke down some of the top films of 2025 such as SINNERS, MARTY SUPREME, NO OTHER CHOICE, WAKE UP DEAD MAN, and THE MASTERMIND plus looked ahead to 2026 with BLUE HERON, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, & DUNE: PART THREE 📽️
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Watch these top 2025 films before the year ends - New Day NW
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December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Went back on TV to talk movies. Specifically, broke down some of the top films of 2025 such as SINNERS, MARTY SUPREME, NO OTHER CHOICE, WAKE UP DEAD MAN, and THE MASTERMIND plus looked ahead to 2026 with BLUE HERON, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, & DUNE: PART THREE 📽️
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Josh Safdie proves he was the chosen one with ‘Marty Supreme’, a chaos-riddled epic about a scumbag ping-pong player trying to scheme his way into proving that he’s the world’s greatest. Chalamet is outstanding.
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‘MARTY SUPREME’ Serves Up Another High-Tension Safdie Classic - Silver Screen Riot
A film review of 'Marty Supreme' directed by Josh Safdie and starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Odessa A'Zion.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Josh Safdie proves he was the chosen one with ‘Marty Supreme’, a chaos-riddled epic about a scumbag ping-pong player trying to scheme his way into proving that he’s the world’s greatest. Chalamet is outstanding.
silverscreenriot.com/marty-supreme/
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I missed the screening at the Northwest Film Forum. Fortunately, I caught up with ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 via screener. At 200 mins, it's a long sit, but I appreciated the varied approaches to the ongoing conflict. Avail thru @icarusfilms.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958–1989 is an essential archival resource that chronicles three decades of conflict, diplomacy, and media framing surrounding one of the world’s most enduring politica...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I missed the screening at the Northwest Film Forum. Fortunately, I caught up with ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 via screener. At 200 mins, it's a long sit, but I appreciated the varied approaches to the ongoing conflict. Avail thru @icarusfilms.bsky.social @seattlecritics.bsky.social
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MARTY SUPREME is a triumph of cinema, a ceaseless vortex of familiar Safdie anxiety wrapped in the image of ragged, exhaustive individualism that comprises the American dream and every nightmare that results from pursuing it.
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Marty Supreme: Manifest Destiny
Josh Safdie's films largely traffic in the wake of the American dream, or about the way that the promise of this country eventually sands us all down into aberrant messes adrift in a sea of post-capit...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
MARTY SUPREME is a triumph of cinema, a ceaseless vortex of familiar Safdie anxiety wrapped in the image of ragged, exhaustive individualism that comprises the American dream and every nightmare that results from pursuing it.
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@seattlecritics.bsky.social's Marina Coates interviews director Kelsey Taylor and DP Adam Lee of the Little Red Riding Hood-inspired To Kill a Wolf. I recommend seeking it out. Kelsey and Adam, who I met over the summer, feel like old friends at this point, and I can't wait to see what they do next.
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
@seattlecritics.bsky.social's Marina Coates interviews director Kelsey Taylor and DP Adam Lee of the Little Red Riding Hood-inspired To Kill a Wolf. I recommend seeking it out. Kelsey and Adam, who I met over the summer, feel like old friends at this point, and I can't wait to see what they do next.
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@shouldiseeit.bsky.social interviews Wolf Land director Sarah Hoffman, DP Bryce Yukio Adolphson, and editor David Wullzen at @seattlecritics.bsky.social's PNW award nominee screening at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. Wolf Land is streaming on @cascadepbs.org; we screened the director's cut.
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
@shouldiseeit.bsky.social interviews Wolf Land director Sarah Hoffman, DP Bryce Yukio Adolphson, and editor David Wullzen at @seattlecritics.bsky.social's PNW award nominee screening at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. Wolf Land is streaming on @cascadepbs.org; we screened the director's cut.
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What would you do with 📽️ETERNITY? -- Morgen has some questions about a charming, silly, and sentimental visit to the afterlife with Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner. In theaters this weekend.
What would you do with Eternity? - The SunBreak
It's the eternal question (pardon the pun), but what happens when we die? Nothing? The best things? The most mundane things? Well, Eternity offers on a more romantic take with every day being your bes...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
What would you do with 📽️ETERNITY? -- Morgen has some questions about a charming, silly, and sentimental visit to the afterlife with Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner. In theaters this weekend.
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Shih-Ching Tsou’s solo directorial debut, LEFT-HANDED GIRL (2025) is an entertaining and emotionally resonant film. It’s a story of family, resilience, and tradition within the hustle and bustle of Taipei. My Review.
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Film Review - Left-Handed Girl | The MacGuffin
Allen Almachar reviews the drama Left-Handed Girl, from director Shih-Ching Tsou and starring Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma & Nina Ye.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Shih-Ching Tsou’s solo directorial debut, LEFT-HANDED GIRL (2025) is an entertaining and emotionally resonant film. It’s a story of family, resilience, and tradition within the hustle and bustle of Taipei. My Review.
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Though there are many great movies to watch this holiday weekend, don't sleep on the LEFT-HANDED GIRL. Directed by Shih-Ching Tsou from a script she co-wrote with Sean Baker, it proves to be more sweet than bitter while feeling just as alive as their past works. See it (*checks notes*) on Netflix 📽️
LEFT-HANDED GIRL: Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker make a bittersweet family dramedy that echoes TAKE OUT from 20 years ago. While it trades NYC for Taipei and a bike for a scooter, it maintains the same sense of attention to detail 📽️
My #Cannes2025 review: www.thewrap.com/left-handed-...
My #Cannes2025 review: www.thewrap.com/left-handed-...
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Though there are many great movies to watch this holiday weekend, don't sleep on the LEFT-HANDED GIRL. Directed by Shih-Ching Tsou from a script she co-wrote with Sean Baker, it proves to be more sweet than bitter while feeling just as alive as their past works. See it (*checks notes*) on Netflix 📽️
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ZOOTOPIA 2: Failing to creatively expand the playfulness of its predecessor, it's a sequel jammed with references to classics of cinema, painfully basic puns it keeps beating you over the head with, characters built around a single gag, and little else 📽️
My review: www.inlander.com/screen/zooto...
My review: www.inlander.com/screen/zooto...
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ZOOTOPIA 2: Failing to creatively expand the playfulness of its predecessor, it's a sequel jammed with references to classics of cinema, painfully basic puns it keeps beating you over the head with, characters built around a single gag, and little else 📽️
My review: www.inlander.com/screen/zooto...
My review: www.inlander.com/screen/zooto...
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The best movie in theaters this weekend just might be WAKE UP DEAD MAN, the latest in Rian Johnson's KNIVES OUT comedy mystery series. Josh O'Connor's a knockout, but Seattle viewers will have to go to Shoreline to see him, Daniel Craig, and the rest of the all-star cast of schemers.
Rian Johnson's terrific Knives Out mysteries hit peak form with Wake Up Dead Man - The SunBreak
The latest Knives Out finds onetime boxer turned small town priest wrapped up in a thorny and inexplicable murder of a controversial Monsignor. A warm embrace in a world of wolves, this third…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The best movie in theaters this weekend just might be WAKE UP DEAD MAN, the latest in Rian Johnson's KNIVES OUT comedy mystery series. Josh O'Connor's a knockout, but Seattle viewers will have to go to Shoreline to see him, Daniel Craig, and the rest of the all-star cast of schemers.
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Also finding wider release this weekend, Joachim Trier's exquisite family drama 📽️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE. With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning (and a revelatory Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), it's among the year's finest films.
Neither art or family come easy in Joachim Trier's exquisite Sentimental Value - The SunBreak
It's been quite a year for films about fathers reckoning with the consequences of having prioritizing careers over family or making art as a balm for old wounds, none yet have come close to holding a…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Also finding wider release this weekend, Joachim Trier's exquisite family drama 📽️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE. With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning (and a revelatory Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), it's among the year's finest films.
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The more I keep thinking about it, the more I can’t stop chuckling over #Zootopia2. It’s just so much goofy fun (and far smarter than you’d initially expect).
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November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The more I keep thinking about it, the more I can’t stop chuckling over #Zootopia2. It’s just so much goofy fun (and far smarter than you’d initially expect).
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'Hamnet' film review: Emotionally raw summation of 'to be or not to be'
#Hamnet opens in select cities (including #Seattle) today - and opens nationwide on Dec. 5.
film review: www.escapeintofilm.com/home/hamnet-... @seattlecritics.bsky.social
#Hamnet opens in select cities (including #Seattle) today - and opens nationwide on Dec. 5.
film review: www.escapeintofilm.com/home/hamnet-... @seattlecritics.bsky.social
'Hamnet' film review: Emotionally raw summation of 'to be or not to be' — Escape Into Film
Towering, deeply resonant performances power one of the very best films of the year.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
'Hamnet' film review: Emotionally raw summation of 'to be or not to be'
#Hamnet opens in select cities (including #Seattle) today - and opens nationwide on Dec. 5.
film review: www.escapeintofilm.com/home/hamnet-... @seattlecritics.bsky.social
#Hamnet opens in select cities (including #Seattle) today - and opens nationwide on Dec. 5.
film review: www.escapeintofilm.com/home/hamnet-... @seattlecritics.bsky.social
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Full of humor, dazzling animation, and thoughtful commentary on the world around us, ZOOTOPIA 2 is a strong return to form for Disney Animation Studios.
Playing around the clock at a theater near you and throughout Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season.
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Playing around the clock at a theater near you and throughout Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season.
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Should I See It-Zootopia 2 (2025)
In this sequel to the Oscar-winning 2016 film, detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the mammal metropoli...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Full of humor, dazzling animation, and thoughtful commentary on the world around us, ZOOTOPIA 2 is a strong return to form for Disney Animation Studios.
Playing around the clock at a theater near you and throughout Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season.
@seattlecritics.bsky.social
Playing around the clock at a theater near you and throughout Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season.
@seattlecritics.bsky.social
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Just in time for the holidays, fall festival movies are making their ways to the masses. Chloe Zhao's 📽️HAMNET, with heartrendingly cathartic performances from Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, arrives in local theaters tonight, including at @SIFFnews.bsky.social. Bring tissues.
Chloe Zhao ponders an undiscovered country in Hamnet - The SunBreak
Notes from Saturday at Telluride where the festival saw the world premiere of Hamnet and North American premieres of Bugonia and Pillion.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Just in time for the holidays, fall festival movies are making their ways to the masses. Chloe Zhao's 📽️HAMNET, with heartrendingly cathartic performances from Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, arrives in local theaters tonight, including at @SIFFnews.bsky.social. Bring tissues.
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Will have more on it quite soon, but resharing my rave review of Rian Johnson’s wonderful WAKE UP DEAD MAN now that you can see it in theaters. It's not only the best, most fun KNIVES OUT yet, but also the most spiritual with the power to make even Johnson’s greatest doubters into true believers 📽️
WAKE UP DEAD MAN: Rian Johnson’s glorious, goofy gothic horror is the best KNIVES OUT movie yet with an outstanding duo in Daniel Craig & Josh O'Connor. Taking shots at STAR WARS and Netflix while reflecting on faith?, it's a damn miracle 📽️
My #TIFF review: www.thewrap.com/wake-up-dead...
My #TIFF review: www.thewrap.com/wake-up-dead...
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Will have more on it quite soon, but resharing my rave review of Rian Johnson’s wonderful WAKE UP DEAD MAN now that you can see it in theaters. It's not only the best, most fun KNIVES OUT yet, but also the most spiritual with the power to make even Johnson’s greatest doubters into true believers 📽️
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'Zootopia 2' delivers exactly what a family movie should: pure fun for kids, a little thematic meat for adults, and enough cross-generational jokes to keep everyone laughing. silverscreenriot.com/zootopia-2/
‘ZOOTOPIA 2’ and the Overwhelming Joy of the Meaningful Family-Friendly Film - Silver Screen Riot
A movie review of 'Zootopia 2' directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard and starring Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
'Zootopia 2' delivers exactly what a family movie should: pure fun for kids, a little thematic meat for adults, and enough cross-generational jokes to keep everyone laughing. silverscreenriot.com/zootopia-2/
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Devastating yet ultimately cathartic, Chloé Zhao's #Hamnet explores the personal loss that may have inspired Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. Be prepared for a crying hangover.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Devastating yet ultimately cathartic, Chloé Zhao's #Hamnet explores the personal loss that may have inspired Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. Be prepared for a crying hangover.
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@eclectichutch.bsky.social interviewing WTO/99's Ian Bell and Gavin Sullivan at @seattlecritics.bsky.social sold out screening at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. Staffers had to turn people away, but the doc plays @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Dec 5-14 before expanding. More dates: www.wto99doc.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
@eclectichutch.bsky.social interviewing WTO/99's Ian Bell and Gavin Sullivan at @seattlecritics.bsky.social sold out screening at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. Staffers had to turn people away, but the doc plays @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Dec 5-14 before expanding. More dates: www.wto99doc.com
Over the weekend SFCS Awards Coordinator Mike Ward (@shouldiseeit.bsky.social) was joined by the filmmakers of 📽️WOLF LAND for a Q&A at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Film Center for our Best of the PNW series. Catch up with his conversation with Sarah Hoffman, Bryce Yokio Adolphson, and David Wulzen!
SFCS PNW 2025: Wolf Land Q&A
Following a screening of their film at SIFF Film Center as part of our Best of the Pacific Northwest series Mike Ward (SFCS Awards Coordinator) was joined by the team for Wolf Land -- Sarah Hoffman…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Over the weekend SFCS Awards Coordinator Mike Ward (@shouldiseeit.bsky.social) was joined by the filmmakers of 📽️WOLF LAND for a Q&A at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Film Center for our Best of the PNW series. Catch up with his conversation with Sarah Hoffman, Bryce Yokio Adolphson, and David Wulzen!
We were fortunate to have 📽️ NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD's Lachlan Hinton (co-director) and Tony Castle (producer) in town to talk about their illuminating documentary with SFCS's Eric Zhu (@ezhu.bsky.social) for Q&A at @SIFFnews.bsky.social on Sunday to close our best of the PNW series.
SFCS PNW 2025: Not One Drop of Blood - Q&A
Co-Director Lachlan Hinton and Producer Tony Castle joined SFCS member Eric Zhu for a Q&A at SIFF Film Center on November 23 2026 as part of SFCS's Best of the Pacific Northwest Series.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
We were fortunate to have 📽️ NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD's Lachlan Hinton (co-director) and Tony Castle (producer) in town to talk about their illuminating documentary with SFCS's Eric Zhu (@ezhu.bsky.social) for Q&A at @SIFFnews.bsky.social on Sunday to close our best of the PNW series.
On Sunday evening SFCS VP Chase Hutchinson (@eclectichutch.bsky.social) spoke with Ian Bell (director) and Gavin Sullivan (consulting producer) about their SFCS award-nominated documentary 📽️ WTO/99 at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Film Center. Hear what they had to say during the insightful Q&A here.
SFCS PNW 2025: WTO/99 Q&A
WTO/99 director Ian Bell and consulting producer Gavin Sullivan joined SFCS Vice President Chase Hutchinson at SIFF Film Center for a screening of their documentary and a Q&A.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
On Sunday evening SFCS VP Chase Hutchinson (@eclectichutch.bsky.social) spoke with Ian Bell (director) and Gavin Sullivan (consulting producer) about their SFCS award-nominated documentary 📽️ WTO/99 at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Film Center. Hear what they had to say during the insightful Q&A here.