The beginning of our Best of the Year festivities has dropped, where we're talking the first 10 of our favorite 50 Films of 2025 — and it's an eclectic set of titles. Check back tomorrow for films #31-40 on our countdown, before we make it to #1 next week! https://t.co/dWFJYEYocE

ICYMI yesterday, our #BestFilmsof2025 countdown kept chugging along, and we dug into the movies that landed #31-40 on our annual list, which included projects from debut directors, auteurs, and blockbuster craftsman. https://t.co/N7c9VQvEuf

🔎new byline! 🗡️ I wrote about KNIVES OUT for @InRO, on the case of why movie whodunits are so often lousy mysteries, the differences in mystery fiction and film, and how WAKE UP DEAD MAN amends some of these issues. Had a lot of fun with this one! https://t.co/B3u9Zna7kB

Since it’s coming to Shudder now, here’s what I wrote on the fabulously cuckoo REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND when I saw it at Tribeca for @InRO https://t.co/MoBYSo8nyD

The older I get, the more Yasujirō Ozu’s LATE SPRING upsets me. Wrote about possibly Japan’s finest moment for @InRO https://t.co/Tc9jrLZnC9

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vessas is "the second best Norwegian novel" (so says Knausgård) and the adaptation is one of the most beautiful films I've seen in years. Per Blom's film is the subject of my latest Flashback (@InRO); you can read it here:

My review for @InRO should have been quoted in the trailer highlighting the "hilarious dramatic elision centering around an erection," but oh well. Future viewers should note: this film is often very funny.

Ugo Bienvenu's Arco is a hopeful movie, but one might have hoped for a better one. Me for @InRO

For @InRO I wrote about the third edition of one of the best local/regional film fests around

A film about Argentina's answer to the Beats, starring Argentina's answer to the Beats — full of gay and straight and overall nihilistic sex, and made during the years of dictatorship. It's Tiro de gracia, the subject of this week's Flashback (@InRO): https://t.co/vuQKcBNPOE

Full slate of October reviews gathered in one place, including 10-15 new pieces that weren't published during the month, including thoughts on #GoodBoy, #chainsawman, #100meters, #ShelbyOaks, #LittleAmelie & more! https://t.co/p886OsZWcX

back at @InRO with some lengthy thoughts on AFTER THE HUNT, a movie so brazenly off-putting and hostile toward its audience that it’s almost commendable https://t.co/zaWnCWOZRf

Edward Berger bets big and loses even bigger in the overwrought Ballad of a Small Player. Me for @InRO at #LFF #LFF2025 #LondonFilmFestival

For its 30th anniversary I wrote about STRANGE DAYS, its prophetic vision of the future, Kathryn Bigelow’s formal mastery, and how it ends things on a bold glimmer of hope. Now live over at @InRO: https://t.co/W1TsOcOYuf

September is done and gone and all our thoughts on the month's releases have been collected for your convenient reading. https://t.co/JO5SCBaoVE

A short jaunt through the history of Burkina Faso's cinema; a focus on Dani Kouyaté's masterpiece Sia, Dream of the Python; and a few questions about African films in European festivals — it's this week's Flashback. Read here (@InRO):

. @zwlws's latest #Flashback travels to Burkina Faso for Dani Kouyaté's Sia, Dream of the Python: https://t.co/I4P06lkrli

for @InRO i wrote about Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and about how it isn’t really about Yukio Mishima at all: https://t.co/zoUALKauEV

Have I ever said that I think THE INSIDER is the greatest movie ever made? Well, for my @InRO debut, I write about the movie's relevant understanding of journalism's capitulating limitations and how those themes are elevated by Mann's signatures. https://t.co/3in5hcRTKc

I wrote about the movie everyone's talking about — the one where a former violent revolutionary evades capture and settles into a new life only to finally settle their past — that's helmed by a legendary director. That's right, it's Masao Adachi's Escape: