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  • The Smashing Machine (2025)

    The Smashing Machine (2025)

    Far from mythologising Mark Kerr’s contributions to mixed martial arts, Benny Safdie treats his body as both an instrument and casualty of the sport’s formation in The Smashing Machine, illustrating its personal cost in intensely tactile, psychological terms.


  • The Best Films of the 2010s

    The Best Films of the 2010s

    The greatest films of the 2010s, from the heights of New Mexican cinema to the proliferation of comic book movies.


  • If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)

    If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)

    Through Mary Bronstein’s harrowing focus on motherhood as a state of constant triage, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You directs its anxiety-inducing tension toward a woman stretched to her limits, underscoring the unbearable guilt, crushing responsibility, and relentless pressure that saturates mundane anxieties.


  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)

    Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)

    Humanity’s cybernetic ambitions are no match for its darkest impulses in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, as Hiroyuki Imaishi traces one fledgling mercenary’s ascent through Night City’s underworld, and unleashes an assault of neon-lit, hyper-stylised violence.


  • The Best Films of the 2000s

    The Best Films of the 2000s

    The greatest films of the 2000s, from the Korean New Wave to the resurgence of the fantasy genre.


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