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Stephanie Monohan Screen Slate Oct 28, 2026 A sad and empathetic portrait of multigenerational hardship characterized by abuse, PTSD, and poverty. Yet the directors avoid exploiting a defining event or revelation the family has to reckon with. Go to Full Review October Country (2009) 88% 67%

Aaron Cutler Screen Slate Oct 28, 2026 In the aftermath of these leaders’ traumatic losses, Greaves mounts a state-of-the-moment exposé about a group struggling, day by day, to pave for itself the smoothest possible path through American society. Go to Full Review Still a Brother (1968) - - - -

Chris Shields Screen Slate Oct 28, 2026 The luminous, idiosyncratic visual poetry of Hartoutounian’s film is searching for freedom in a highly repressive milieu, as light sneaks through the stark shadows in many of its wandering frames. Go to Full Review After Dreaming (2025) - - - -

Meghan Racklin Screen Slate Oct 21, 2026 While Schiller sometimes reduces the complexity of her subjects, she remains attuned to the complexity and richness of their social world. Go to Full Review Paris Was a Woman (1995) 86% 70%

Noah Kulwin Screen Slate Oct 13, 2026 This is an important emotional and historical truth. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Mistrix Violeta Félix Screen Slate Oct 6, 2026 Alanis pulls us away from the detached discourse of sex work criminalization by demonstrating what police saviorism looks like in practice in vivid, sensitive, and gut-wrenching detail. Go to Full Review Alanis (2017) 100% 53%

Bernardo Rondeau Screen Slate Oct 6, 2026 After waiting nearly a decade for Grisebach to deliver The Dreamed Adventure, we have been rewarded with a low-key epic of lingering mystery and rugged intrigue. Go to Full Review The Dreamed Adventure (2026) 95% - -

Emerson Rosenthal Screen Slate Oct 2, 2026 The true power of Begotten resides in the fact that, even when you know what you’re looking at, it still lulls you back into the feeling that you might very well be witnessing the origin of the universe. Go to Full Review Begotten (1989) 79% 65%

Arlin Golden Screen Slate Sep 24, 2026 Questions posed by sudden modernity, hope that the lives to which we’ve been introduced will improve quickly gives way under the weight of the 450-year colonial history invoked in the film’s opening: that’s just not the way these things go. Go to Full Review Araya (1959) 92% 91%

Lucy Talbot Allen Screen Slate Sep 23, 2026 What really violates is repression. Go to Full Review Crimes of Passion (1984) 54% 56%

Bernardo Rondeau Screen Slate Sep 21, 2026 CGI-free and grounded, it isn't interested in repeating or expanding upon triggering imagery, but in the effect that imagery has on those who witness it, characters and audience alike. Go to Full Review Day Night Day Night (2006) 67% 55%

Ryan Meehan Screen Slate Sep 10, 2026 Monohan’s boldest intervention in his source material, though, comes courtesy of Freud—closing Scorsese’s loop with The Sopranos and offering the director a darker, more contingent vision of the family than his stories of Italian America ever permitted. Go to Full Review The Departed (2006) 91% 94%

Patrick Dahl Screen Slate Sep 8, 2026 Coppola produced an equally sumptuous and far more approachable masterpiece centered on time and interior consciousness. Go to Full Review Youth Without Youth (2007) 34% 44%

Bernardo Rondeau Screen Slate Sep 8, 2026 Petey Wheatstraw is the kind of film that could truly be regarded as a cult classic. Go to Full Review Petey Wheatstraw (1977) - - 53%

Jacqueline Castel Screen Slate Sep 2, 2026 As a complex portrait of totalitarian psychology at the peak of the Cold War, Der Fan warns of fanaticism, in all its forms. Go to Full Review Der Fan (1982) - - - -

Brian Darr Screen Slate Aug 26, 2026 If a film made with then-nascent technology can help us bear witness to legacies of misinformation a century later, might we hope to better understand how to reverse technology’s role in modern-day moral panics? Go to Full Review Haxan (1922) 93% 81%

Zak Goodwin Screen Slate Aug 26, 2026 The Milky Way is an episodic riddle that explores the contradictions of religion and probes the limitations of faith itself. Go to Full Review The Milky Way (1969) 95% 83%

Grace Byron Screen Slate Aug 26, 2026 Unlike most bloated superhero movies, Drew doesn’t overstay her welcome. Go to Full Review The People's Joker (2022) 96% - -

Alexandra Coburn Screen Slate Aug 26, 2026 Does not portray the Great Depression as a sentimental and distant event from the past, but as a decade of general inertia. Its characters and settings are signifiers of the Depression-era South, but the listless, cool attitude in the film is purely ‘70s. Go to Full Review Boxcar Bertha (1972) 59% 33%

Dan Schindel Screen Slate Aug 26, 2026 The film cross-pollinates several now-bygone qualities of American culture: short stories, television plays, funded public art, and of course, the dearly departed Demme. Go to Full Review Who Am I This Time? (1982) - - 78%