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F1 (2025)
Joseph Kosinski swaps jets for race cars in F1’s thrilling sports drama, stylishly redressing familiar tropes with sleek technical mastery, and turning its predictable rivalry into an electrifying, finely choreographed dance of collaboration.
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Zero for Conduct (1933)
The rule of law is little more than an arbitrary imposition of authority in Zero for Conduct, and it is up to the roguish schoolboys of one French boarding school to restore the natural order, as Jean Vigo playfully mounts a rising disenchantment towards anarchic revolution.
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The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
Amid The Phoenician Scheme’s epic entanglements of assassins, terrorists, and bureaucrats, it is within a dysfunctional family reunion where Wes Anderson unravels an unlikely spiritual redemption, mending broken bonds through one wealthy industrialist’s mission to execute his most ambitious project yet.
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Perhaps the only thing longer than the title Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the film itself, as Chantal Akerman forces us to feel every passing minute of one homemaker’s fastidious routine, along with its gradual, psychological decay into exasperating chaos.
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The 25 Best Directors of the Last Decade
The best directors of the last ten years, from blockbuster visionaries to arthouse experimentalists.
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Die Nibelungen (1924)
Fritz Lang’s majestic fable of ambition, betrayal, and vengeance stands as a monumental achievement of silent filmmaking in Die Nibelungen, lifting mythical kings and battles out of Germanic legend, and giving them operatic, larger-than-life form on the cinema screen.
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The 10 Best Film Composers of the Last Decade
The best film composers of the last ten years, from orchestral virtuosos to electronic innovators.
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I Was Born, But… (1932)
Within the messy entanglement of power and status, Yasujirō Ozu’s formal mirroring of fathers and sons in I Was Born, But… reveals the conflict at the root of our common insecurities, as well as the sweet, liberating affirmation we never stop pursuing from infancy through adulthood.
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The 10 Best Cinematographers of the Last Decade
The best cinematographers of the last ten years, from IMAX pioneers to monochrome nostalgists.
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Tokyo Chorus (1931)
The subdued melodrama of Tokyo Chorus stands as a delicate testament to those teachers who not only educate us, but sagely guide us through our lowest moments, as Yasujirō Ozu cultivates his craftsmanship through the tender-hearted tale of an unemployed family man.
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The 10 Best Film Editors of the Last Decade
The best film editors of the last ten years, from masters of formal structure to offbeat action lovers.
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Destiny (1921)
In Destiny’s eternal struggle between love and death, a young woman bargains to win her fiancé back from the afterlife itself, navigating a series of tragically romantic tales through Fritz Lang’s extraordinary Gothic anthology.
