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Siddhant Adlakha Observer Oct 12, 2026 2.5/4 Its acoustic and human elements seldom cohere around its playfully structured story, which justifies the movie’s self-reflexive musical gimmick, but little else. Go to Full Review Behemoth! (2026) 87% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Oct 8, 2026 4/4 Funny and terrifying in equal measure, Tom McCarthy’s A Statement is a work of recent history rendered urgently, re-creating a multidisciplinary policy meeting on climate change in October of 1980. Go to Full Review A Statement (2026) 90% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Sep 23, 2026 3.5/4 A funny, folksy, ludicrously invigorating tale of a mousey suburban housewife finding herself through the stage, before getting lost all over again. Go to Full Review The Debut (2026) 90% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Sep 18, 2026 4/4 An invigorating film containing some of the year’s finest cinematic sleight of hand, and its most captivating performances. Go to Full Review Clarissa (2026) 96% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Jul 8, 2026 3.5/4 Rose’s assuredness, in unraveling a tale of two suburban mothers who feel dislodged from themselves, ends up—like much of her museum work—a powerful rumination on modernity. Go to Full Review The Last Day (2026) 91% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer May 29, 2026 3.5/4 An enormously affecting tale of volatile youths—played by incredible non-professionals—and their most thorny self-discoveries. Go to Full Review La Gradiva (2026) 96% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer May 28, 2026 4/4 A magnificently moving triptych that feels at once novel and like a classically staged military epic. Go to Full Review La Bola Negra (2026) 87% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer May 28, 2026 3.5/4 Fjord traces the most delicate, most pliable dynamics of modern democracy, in a tale designed as much to infuriate as to engender difficult introspection. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 91% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Mar 26, 2026 1.5/4 The anti-nuance of [Riley's] perspective is commendably audacious, at least in theory. In practice, it’s visually and emotionally incoherent, and seldom entertaining, squandering potent ideas by making them thuddingly obvious and unpleasant. Go to Full Review I Love Boosters (2026) 92% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Jan 30, 2026 4/4 No matter one’s distance from the Harlem Renaissance, Once Upon A Time In Harlem transforms its cultural milieu into personal memory, suffusing history with enormity and reinvigorating it for generations to come. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Jan 28, 2026 3/4 While not exactly a return to form, Gregg Araki’s first feature in a dozen years is nonetheless a welcome comeback. Go to Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 92% - -

Rex Reed Observer Nov 21, 2025 3/4 A sobering, well-made drama that is well worth seeing... Go to Full Review Truth & Treason (2025) 85% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Oct 23, 2025 2/4 At the end of the day, Deliver Me From Nowhere is a film worth looking at and observing from the same distance that Cooper frames his impenetrable version of Springsteen... but the camera seldom looks past the pristine surfaces it creates. Go to Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Oct 17, 2025 3/4 The garish excess of generative A.I. receives a fittingly excessive dressing down in Radu Jude’s Dracula, a self-reflexive comedy that skirts ethical lines with a purpose. Go to Full Review Dracula (2025) 71% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Oct 15, 2025 3.5/4 Jarmusch knows just when and how to hold on moments long enough to imbue them with warmth, bittersweetness and a touch of dramatic irony. Go to Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Oct 10, 2025 3/4 The actor-director is three-for-three when it comes to films about art and artistry that just come up short, while displaying enough thoughtful flourishes to convince you he'll create a masterpiece down the line. Sadly, today is not that day. Go to Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 87% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Oct 8, 2025 4/4 It’s a film that seldom comes out and tells you exactly what’s happening, but its drama is so lucid that before any real tragedy unfolds (or is even hinted at), you feel it in your bones. Go to Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 97% - -

Rex Reed Observer Sep 29, 2025 2/4 The Oscar winner produces and stars in a hackneyed, uninspired dime-a-dozen horror film that wastes her considerable talents on Minnesota mayhem. Go to Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 76% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Sep 25, 2025 3.5/4 The gentle sci-fi drama presents a vivid and detailed world whose murkiest elements are often left to innuendos and the imagination (but feel no less threatening). The result is a uniquely life-affirming coming of (old) age saga. Go to Full Review The Blue Trail (2025) 98% - -

Siddhant Adlakha Observer Sep 23, 2025 3/4 Ambitious to a fault, Kafka biopic Franz is as much about the landmark Czech surrealist as it is about its own making, as a commercialized re-telling of a life cut tragically short. Go to Full Review Franz (2025) 75% - -