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Kevin Jones
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Film critic for Cineccentric. Providence basketball fan. Marist College alum. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3Dbp
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Clint Bentley's Train Dreams is gorgeously shot and features one of Joel Edgerton's strongest performances; however, the film omits much of the magic of the novella it is based on. Read Sean Erickson's review of Train Dreams below:
Train Dreams ★★½
There are endless ways a movie can frustrate a viewer. In the case of Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, it’s the frustration of watching a movie dance on the periphery of greatness but refuse to cross the line and do something truly remarkable.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Vladlena Sandu's Memory is a personal story for director Vladlena Sandu related to her upbringing in the Russian city of Grozny. Read Lida Bach's Marrakech Film Festival review of Memory below:
Memory ★★½
From its opening frames, Vladlena Sandu's essayist drama announces itself as an intimate reckoning with a childhood disrupted by violence, both personal and political. War, propaganda, and mistreatment shape her upbringing in Grozny during the last years of the Soviet Regime up until the Russian occupation. Wavering between remembrance, reenactment, and re-imagination, her first feature-length work Memory transforms personal trauma into a cinematic testimony of infantile resilience.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The trailer for #KristofferBorgli 's next film #TheDrama was released this morning. Revisit Borgli's breakout film #DreamScenario below:

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Dream Scenario ★★★
Careful what you wish for, because you just might get it and more. That is what befalls college professor Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage). He is a stunted middle-aged man, a man with grand professiona…
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December 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Neeraj Ghaywan's Homebound is a social realist film exploring themes such as religion and escapism. Read Lida Bach's Marrakech International Film Festival review of Homebound below:
Homebound ★★½
A decade after his last cinematic effort, Neeraj Ghaywan returns with a prestige project, shepherded by executive producer Martin Scorsese, that pairs the lyrical sentiment of his early work with a timely social realism. The latter is grounded in Basharat Peer’s 2020 article that inspired the plot and its paradigmatic portrayal of male friendship. Stifled aspiration and systemic injustice in contemporary India form the background of the two young main characters' transformative journey away from their rural home and impoverished families, and back again.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life."

Amanda Dobbins, on fire
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Bryan Fuller's Dust Bunny is an imaginative family horror film with a child-like sense of wonder. Read Kevin Jones' review below:
Dust Bunny ★★★
Dust Bunny is a wild concoction. Best known for his work in television with series such as Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, and American Gods, Bryan Fuller makes his feature film directorial debut with Dust Bunny. Originally pitched by Fuller as a “family horror film,” it also has plenty of roots in dark fantasy, sci-fi action, and crime. It is sort of…
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December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This was always the catch. Yeah, they have no plans to stop WB movies having theatrical releases...but the window will be smaller or non-existent. Horrible for cinema.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos says the streamer has no "opposition" to releasing Warner Bros. movies in theaters, but hints that "windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly."

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December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Andrés Clariond's Versailles is a political satire that follows a man attempting to become Mexico's president. Read Lida Bach's Tallinn Black Nights review of Versailles below:
Versailles ★½
Much like its main character, Andrés Clariond's slippery satire comes frustratingly close to striking political gold. But rather than snatching the comedic crown - or in the case of the unlucky protagonist aiming for Mexico’s highest state office, the presidency - he lands an embarrassing misfire, before retreating into private excess which turns increasingly absurdist. The most blatant aspect of this curious cinematic combination of lavishness and ludicrousness is the evocation of the titular French estate.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Sengedorj Janchivdorj's The Muralist continues thematic exploration of melancholy and loneliness begun in his prior film Silent City Driver. Read Lida Bach's Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival review of The Muralist below:
The Muralist ★★★
After taking home the golden wolf statue for Best Feature Film at last year’s Black Nights Film Festival with Silent City Driver, Sengedorj Janchivdorj returns to Tallinn with another melancholic meditation on lost connections, loneliness, and laconic humor. Ulaanbaatar, with its glistening skyline set against the endless width of the Mongolian steppe, is once more a central character to the bittersweet story, filled with small connections to the director-writer's prior work.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Osgood Perkins' Keeper is an atmospheric and chilling film that fizzles out in its final act. Read Kevin Jones' review below:
Keeper ★★½
The second new film from writer-director Osgood Perkins released this year, Keeper follows Liz (Tatiana Maslany) as she embarks on a romantic getaway with her boyfriend Dr. Malcolm Westbridge (Rossif Sutherland). Together now for one year, Liz is overwhelmed with how happy she feels. This is unusual for her, both having a relationship that lasts this long and to feel so satisfied in one.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Hikari's Rental Family is a sweet and heartwarming look at finding family in unexpected places. Read Kevin Jones' review below:
Rental Family ★★★
Phillip Vandarploeug (Brendan Fraser) is struggling. An American living in Japan, Phillip is an outsider. He is lonely, spending his evenings looking out his apartment window to see a variety of locals living their ordinary lives in the apartment building across the street. Professionally, he is an actor who had a successful role in a cheesy toothpaste commercial, but none of his work is really paying the bills.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Karolis Kaupinis' Hunger Strike Breakfast examines the impact of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania through the setting of a television studio headquarters. Read Lida Bach's Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival review of Hunger Strike Breakfast below:
Hunger Strike Breakfast ★★½
The “hunger shack,” as the original title of Karolis Kaupinis’ bleak history lesson translates, is not only the cramped Vilnius industrialized flat in which the handful of characters gather, it is also a somber symbol for a small nation starved for a freedom that, in the crucial days of the tight plot, feels both just within reach and far away.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Netalie Braun's Oxygen explores themes of motherhood and warfare through the lens of a selfish character. Read Lida Bach's Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival review of Oxygen below:
Oxygen ★★
Motherhood, militarism, and moral ambiguity collide in Netalie Braun's disquieting drama Oxygen. Prior to its run at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival in the Best of Festivals section, the film took the top prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival, causing a stir for its supposedly anti-war message. This, however, is both complicated and compromised by the murky motivations of its protective protagonist who is egoistic at best and an outright sociopath at worst.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Edgar Wright's The Running Man is a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's novel, but never finds its footing. Read Kevin Jones' review below:
The Running Man ★★
The original 1987 film adaptation of The Running Man has seen a critical re-appraisal over the years, though one fact remains: it is not really Stephen King’s The Running Man. It does distill many of the same themes while working within a similar framework, but it is a different story. With this re-adaptation, director Edgar Wright - who co-wrote the script with…
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Jalmari Helander's Sisu: Road to Revenge underperforms the original, but delivers capable thrills. Read Lida Bach's Talinn Black Nights Film Festvial review of Sisu: Road to Revenge below:
Sisu: Road to Revenge ★★½
In the inevitable follow-up to his 2022 survival saga Sisu, Jalmari Helander expands the folkloric brutality of the original into a more mythic action odyssey that occasionally overreaches but rarely ceases to entertain. Returning as the indestructible ex-commando Aatami Korpi, Jorma Tommila brings the same granite-faced charisma to the lead, whose bare-bones biography is slightly expanded. Gritty fight scenes and over-the-top action pieces that brought the first part financial success are still the main feature.
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November 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Raitis and Lauris Ābele's Dog of God is a grotesque animated film depicting werewolf lore that contrasts heavily in impact with fellow Latvian film Flow. Read Lida Bach's Talinn Black Nights Film Festival Review of Dog of God below:
Dog of God ★½
For those not very versed in Eastern European history, "Livonia" might sound like the name of a medieval country straight from a fantasy horror story, just like the anarchic animated tale which director-brothers Raitis and Lauris Ābele bring to Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival. In fact, Livonia is a historical region which, by the end of the 13th century, comprised most of what today is Estonia and Latvia.
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Lav Diaz's 'short film' Magellan is a 3 hour feature that depicts the titular explorer and commentates on the impact of conquests throughout history. Read Lida Bach's review of Magellan below:
Magellan ★★★★
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan’s legacy lived in the shadows of that of more prominent and popular explorers such as Christopher Columbus. The latter’s voyages were also financed by the Spanish crown that gave Magellan his big sailing shot at fame when the Portuguese King Manuel I refused to support his daring plan: to sail around an only crudely sketched-out South America into the Pacific Ocean (which by then wasn’t even called the “Pacific Ocean” since that name, too, came from Magellan).
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November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM