Category: New
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With stellar performances from Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value examines how art and life can imitate each other, in both tragic and poetic ways. When I saw director Joachim Trier’s previous film The Worst Person in the World (2021), I wasn’t moved. I don’t know why, but there was something about the film…
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Today, I went to the Cinema Society screening of Frankenstein (2025), followed by a Q&A with director Guillermo del Toro and actor Jacob Elordi, who plays The Creature. It was an insanely cool experience. Roger Durling began the screening with a statement of “Welcome to church!” It certainly felt like it, with a packed crowd…
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Making your heart pound in more ways than one, The Fly (1986) stands as one of Cronenberg’s crowning achievements. Jesus. One of my favorite films in the last year was The Substance (2024), and I still go back and watch clips of it sometimes. There’s so much to mine from that film, but a lot…
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David Cronenberg’s breakout hit makes the sexual freedom of the 1970s a nightmare in this tense horror film that turns luxury apartments into sites of blood and carnage A lot of horror films, especially body horror films, concern how our relationships with people affect us on a deep, internal level. One thing I’ve noticed while…
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