Authors: Patrick Gibbs
Top 11 Films of 2025
From the early standouts at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival to the last of the platformed Oscar-bait films, here are my picks for the top 11 films of 2025. … read more
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Casey G. Williams Can’t Be Contained
Casey G. Williams’ film explores how containerization accelerated China’s rise, shifting economic power from West to East and intensifying division worldwide. … read more
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Film Review — The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
SpongeBob believes he’s finally ready to ride the legendary Shipwreck coaster. When fear gets the better of him, he accidentally summons the Flying Dutchman. … read more
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Film Review: Avatar: Fire and Ash
I’m not here to claim that Avatar: Fire and Ash is anything more than it is, and I’ve seen many movies this year that were deeper, smarter and more important. … read more
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Film Review: The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is a slow burn that requires a strong attention span. Its portrait of suppressed histories and state surveillance resonates with the present. … read more
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Film Review: Ella McCay
Ella MacKay brings to mind a blind old incontinent sheepdog who is clinging to the last vestiges of life. There’s a feeling of love and fond memories of better days. … read more
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Film Review: Fackham Hall
Does Fackham Hall stoop to lowbrow, cheap humor? Of course it does. It also has some smart, well-constructed gags and hundreds of extremely silly ones. … read more
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Film Review: Wake Up Dead Man
Wake Up Dead Man is a treatise on the judgmental, weaponized toxicity of modern Christianity vs. the actual doctrine of Christ. … read more
Film Review: Hamnet
Hamnet stands as a marvel of emotion, a hymn to grief sung softly into the marrow, a tale that leaves the soul strangely whole. … read more
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Ira Sachs on Art and Risk in Peter Hujar’s Day
For Sachs, Peter Hujar’s Day is not simply a portrait of an artist. It is a meditation on the communities that teach artists how to see. … read more
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SLUG Magazine Presents: 31 Days of Secondhand Givings
Gather around the radiant glow of the box set and don your gay apparel, you little freaks, for a festive installment of Secondhand Screenings! … read more
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Film Review: Zootopia 2
On the whole, Zootopia 2 is filled with enough high energy fun that it works even when it’s not completely sure where it’s going. … read more
