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Pasquale Squiteri's "I Guappi" reveals the inauspicious entanglement of the Mafia with everyday life in nineteenth century Ita...

Parthenope  Paolo Sorrentino's latest film, "Parthenope", features so many of his affectations that mar some of his previous w...

12. First Love (1978), directed by Dino Risi - I've seen a few Dino Risi films this year (mostly for the captivatingly beautiful Ornell...

  The Remarkable Life of Ibelin I never played World of Warcraft, but as someone who grew up alongside the burgeoning Internet, the idea of ...

Anora   For all its anxiety inducing set pieces, the most masterful thing about Sean Baker's electric "Anora" is that all the ...

The Breaking Ice Nana (Zhou Dongyu) is a tour guide whose dropped off the face of the earth from her family, constantly dreaming about her p...

My exploration of the films of Robert Siodmak continues, and, dare I say, his best films have been the ones that aren't readily availabl...

  The Sweet East From its opening few minutes when teenager Lillian (a vibrant Talia Ryder) sings a song into a streaky restroom mirror and ...

1.  Furiosa (2024) - I liked "Fury Road" (2015). "Furiosa" is a masterpiece. It's a film that deepens, strengthens,...

One of the best films of the year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Evil Does Not Exist"is a tantalizing, challenging wonder. Part eco-thr...

If I were sculpting a Mount Rushmore of neo-noir sleuths, the first would be Elliot Gould's Marlowe in "The Long Goodbye". T...

  Origin In "Origin", Ava DuVernay takes a sweeping nonfiction book and not only manages to weave a heartfelt portrait of the auth...

The layers in Martha Coolidge's hybrid documentary "Not a Pretty Picture" are potent. The film deals with rape- not only that ...

The full list can be found here:  My Favorite Films of 2023 | Dallas Film Now. , which has basically transported the more professional writi...

11. The Mind Benders (1963) -  Generally regarded as one of the first true paranoid thrillers, John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian...

  Killers of the Flower Moon Scorsese's latest is a corrosive epic that clearly reveals its shades of morality for everyone involved wit...