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Yes
(2025)
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Manohla Dargis
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“Yes” is an unsparing movie and can be hard to watch partly because Lapid’s raw fury and maximalist approach can border on off-putting excess.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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She Dances
(2025)
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Glenn Kenny
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While the picture, directed by Rick Gomez, has an often jaunty tone, it’s really at its best when it leans into the sadness that shadows the father-daughter relationship.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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Our Hero, Balthazar
(2025)
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Lisa Kennedy
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So many details in this comedy-drama are meant to provoke. And “Our Hero, Balthazar” teases with the promise of a darkly intelligent film. Not unlike its protagonist’s tears, the effect is dismayingly performative.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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A Magnificent Life
(2025)
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Beatrice Loayza
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Sure, it’s a way of extending an olive branch to English-language viewers, but who, if not a Francophile, would enjoy such a meticulous recreation of Pagnol’s life and times?
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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Forbidden Fruits
(2026)
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Chris Azzopardi
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The movie is rarely fun or funny, further dulled by gray-washed scenes that turn the hottest store in the mall into a pale echo of better cult films.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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BTS: THE RETURN
(2026)
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Brandon Yu
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This is, in short, as polished as you would expect of a work about a pop behemoth, a companion piece to their new album that’s less a revelatory look at the meaning of their time away than a sentimental welcome back for the group and its fans.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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Fantasy Life
(2025)
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Nicolas Rapold
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The movie’s flow might rest with its season-spanning chapters. It’s a device that also bears a message: Time moves on, and so can we.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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Alpha
(2025)
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Jeannette Catsoulis
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Softer and gentler than either of its forbears, “Alpha” hums with a dreamlike unease, a movie less concerned with sensation than with genuine feeling.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
(2026)
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Alissa Wilkinson
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There’s some value, though, in sorting through what’s being said. Collecting bites of it in one place to muse upon is at least somewhere to start.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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They Will Kill You
(2026)
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Ben Kenigsberg
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All credit to the folks who run the Virgil: Real thought has gone into these amenities.
Posted Mar 26, 2026
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Dhurandhar: The Revenge
(2026)
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Nicolas Rapold
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It’s a movie of the current moment, which isn’t exactly a comfort.
Posted Mar 23, 2026
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The Second Civil War
(1997)
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Caryn James
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This mildly entertaining and disappointing film plays as if its creators didn't trust the audience to get a more subtle satire.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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Lumière! The Adventure Continues
(2024)
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Alissa Wilkinson
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Making a film like this, which restores and celebrates some of the movies’ earliest creators and innovators, is a way to place faith in humanity.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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Miroirs No. 3
(2025)
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Manohla Dargis
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Petzold likes to maintain a certain critical distance onscreen, but, oh, how beautifully he can move you to tears.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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Two Prosecutors
(2025)
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Nicolas Rapold
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Violence may be kept largely offscreen in this particular story, but it’s written on the bodies of the broken prisoners. Here, fear lurks behind every other door.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Tow
(2025)
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Glenn Kenny
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“Tow” is sunnier overall. Amanda has abundant humor even when she’s close to hitting bottom, and the movie steers into a “beat the system” narrative that packs some stirring “Erin Brockovich” energy.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Spacewoman
(2024)
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Lisa Kennedy
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Credit the film’s taut editing and gravitational tug for bringing out our fears for the safety of commander and crew, despite the facts to the contrary that we absorb from the interviews.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Jeannette Catsoulis
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In its quest to give us a little bit of everything, it finally delivers not nearly enough of anything.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Palestine '36
(2025)
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Ben Kenigsberg
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The dynamics are rarely simply drawn, and if the film’s default mode is miniseries-expository, there are a few striking stylistic flourishes.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Marc by Sofia
(2025)
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Natalia Winkelman
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These segments are the film’s richest, and not only because they offer a sumptuous trove of fashion-in-film references, but because they build to the documentary’s greatest insight: that fashion shows are pure drama.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Late Shift
(2025)
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Beatrice Loayza
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Benesch’s beautifully controlled performance — a balancing act of anxious, fidgety physicality and poker-faced concentration — shows us the difficulty of honoring each patient’s humanity when workplace conditions demand efficiency over empathy.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Kontinental '25
(2025)
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Manohla Dargis
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A sharp, unforgiving satire about life, death and the politics of learned hopelessness, among other weighty subjects.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Dead Lover
(2025)
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Erik Piepenburg
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God bless Glowicki for pushing ahead as a genre leading lady who isn’t scared to tackle oddball characters in nutty films.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
(2026)
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Alissa Wilkinson
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Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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The Howling
(1981)
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Vincent Canby
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''The Howling'' is one of those movies whose lives depend on the mental lethargy of its characters.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Bushido
(2024)
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Manohla Dargis
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Yet it’s the movie’s questioning of what makes a man a man, as well as its stillness, that leaves the strongest impression. Here, when men face each other across a Go board, they find themselves.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Space Cowboy
(2024)
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Nicolas Rapold
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Kudos to Jennings for sharing the mettle required for free-falls, whether external or internal.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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Slanted
(2025)
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Brandon Yu
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It is no fun for a viewer to scoff at a film that purports to speak to pain that is real for many. But Slanted doesn’t actually have any interest in contending with those experiences seriously.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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Reminders of Him
(2026)
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Glenn Kenny
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Reminders of Him deserves credit for serving it all up unabashedly and without a single wink.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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Group: The Schopenhauer Effect
(2026)
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Ben Kenigsberg
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It’s invigorating to watch these interactions, even if similar filmmaking methods have been used before.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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undertone
(2025)
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Alissa Wilkinson
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Still, it’s a properly scary movie, the kind that merits watching in a theater with a good sound system.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
(2026)
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Natalia Winkelman
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Although chiefly a straightforward — and at points repetitive — synopsis of the events, "Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare" distinguishes itself in its devotion to elevating these men as heroes.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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War Machine
(2026)
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Robert Daniels
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Though Ritchson tries to humanize 81’s sudden thrust into leadership, his tics, doubling as clichés, lack depth.
Posted Mar 08, 2026
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Pompei: Below the Clouds
(2025)
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Manohla Dargis
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Here, in this humble spot, there are tales of war but also joy, stories and those who, like Rosi, insistently and movingly, bridge the past with the present.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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Anastasia
(1956)
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Bosley Crowther
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Anatole Litvak has smartly staged [Anastasia] for a fine projection of its human ironies. And it is played with keen sensitivity by Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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Protector
(2025)
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Beatrice Loayza
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Protector, directed by Adrian Grunberg, doesn’t have the finesse of that Liam Neeson movie, but it does have Milla Jovovich, who breathes life into this brooding, occasionally stiff revenge thriller.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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Youngblood
(2025)
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Glenn Kenny
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James, who made an impression as an aspiring Canadian rapper in 2024’s “Boxcutter,” is a model of naturalism here; he is most impressive when he shrouds himself in understatement.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Alissa Wilkinson
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Hoppers possesses that certain charm that comes with pudgy beavers and dastardly caterpillars, and a touch of weird humor beside. Cute animals and a little absurdity can make any mildly overcrowded plot more watchable.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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The Napa Boys
(2025)
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Calum Marsh
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The humor is over-the-top and often exaggeratedly juvenile, but like many nominally “dumb” comedies, it’s the product of a keen and deliberate intelligence.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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Heel (The Good Boy)
(2025)
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Jeannette Catsoulis
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Heel slots neatly into the work of a director who luxuriates in pitch-black fables with chewy moral centers.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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André Is an Idiot
(2025)
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Ben Kenigsberg
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He can’t be irreverent about his impending death forever, but it’s oddly uplifting to see him so committed to trying — while encouraging every viewer to get a colonoscopy.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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Dolly
(2025)
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Erik Piepenburg
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As an exploitation pastiche, Rod Blackhurst’s new sicko fairy tale is a knockout.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Manohla Dargis
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The whole thing is exhausting, at times wincingly self-indulgent, entirely heartfelt and yet also relatable, perhaps especially for women who, when confronted with unrelenting monstrousness, need to give birth to their own monsters.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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RoboCop
(1987)
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Janet Maslin
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Mr. Verhoeven, working from a screenplay by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, is able to incorporate human sentiments and high-tech capabilities into this single ingenious figure, and play them off against each other in a thoroughly involving way.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Manohla Dargis
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The results are, by turns, amusing and lightly scary, though never truly surprising.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
(2025)
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Alissa Wilkinson
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So this is really a movie for hard-core McCartney (or Wings) fans who want to see all of the rare archival footage — or, conversely, for curious newbies who want a fast-paced introduction to one of the most talented songwriters of all time.
Posted Feb 27, 2026
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In the Blink of an Eye
(2026)
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Alissa Wilkinson
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There’s just not enough space given to these characters to grow into full beings, or for us to understand the full import of their actions before we’re whisked away elsewhere.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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K-Pops!
(2024)
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Brandon Yu
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Still, it has its momentary charms, mostly when it’s just .Paak and Rasheed riffing off each other, with the buoyant chemistry of a real father and son.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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Idiotka
(2025)
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Natalia Winkelman
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The movie’s devotion to family solidarity guarantees a measure of genuine feeling.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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Ghost Elephants
(2025)
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Lisa Kennedy
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Ghost Elephants resides in the intersection of science and lyrical reverie — Herzog’s treasured terrain. Here, the filmmaker focuses less on the elephants and more on the pursuers, the dreamers.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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