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Diane Carson

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It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “After a car accident, former Iranian prisoner Vahid believes he found his torturer. To confirm identification, he enlists fellow detainees. Debates include slapstick humor as the group confronts the serious ethical dilemma of revenge.” – AWFJ.org Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “Based on a true story beginning February 8, 1977, in Indianapolis, Gus Van Sant thrusts audiences immediately into startling events. Though it lacks satisfying intellectual complexity. it benefits from its dire emotional ordeal amidst tense suspense. ” – AWFJ.org Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “Alex and Tess Novak find their emotional distance from each other perplexing and complex, so they separate. Adapting a perceptive, poignant story, Bradley Cooper makes sure the vulnerable and uncomfortable details dictate every scene. ” – AWFJ.org Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “Chronicling one hundred plus years of cinema’s history, including multiple genres and the unique stylistic signature for each, Chinese director Bi Gan’s "Resurrection" astonishes with its imaginative flourishes and sustained engagement. ” – AWFJ.org Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% EDIT “Set in the eighteenth century, director Mona Fastvold’s "The Testament of Ann Lee" delivers an animated musical interpretation of the catalyst for and realization of Shakers’ fervor. A fine tribute, it incorporates song, dance, and religious euphoria. ” – AWFJ.org Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Set in 1977 Brazil, academic leftist and technology expert Armando retreats to his home town of Recife to reunite with his son, hoping also to elude violent retaliation perpetrated under General Ernesto Geisel’s military dictatorship.” – AWFJ.org Jan 4, 2026 Full Review The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) 95% EDIT “Chilean writer/director Diego Céspedes’ profiles an isolated drag queen community living in a 1982 remote mining town. Amusing and dramatic, the story presents a serious, metaphorical commentary on a tragic misunderstanding of the AIDS epidemic. ” – AWFJ.org Jan 4, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Chloé Zhao imagines the death of William Shakespeare’s young son Hamnet as the catalyst for the play "Hamlet." Foregrounding delirious joy and heartbreaking grief, she dramatizes the volatile collision of ecstasy with anguish. ” – AWFJ.org Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Daughter's Daughter (2024) EDIT “Aixia Jin learns of daughter Zuer Fan and Zuer’s partner’s deaths, must determine the fate of an IVF embryo, and confront Emma, who first learns of her half-sister. Viewers are invited to contemplate values and the moral choices they dictate. ” – AWFJ.org Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “This straightforward, difficult confrontation with familial trauma and mental illness presents the complexity and brilliance of Springsteen who fought to come out the other side of darkness, navigating the journey through his artistic genius.” – AWFJ.org Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “Another fictionalized but vital chapter in Nazi history, "Nuremberg" follows WWII psychiatrist/U.S. Army Major Douglas Kelley. Despite its flaws, this is a powerful, important reminder of the evil that has and still remains within our world. ” – AWFJ.org Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value" adds a poignant chapter through the deeply problematic relationship of sisters Nora and Agnes with their formerly absent father Gustav, an aging film director, as the trio wrestles with the past in an unsettled present.” – AWFJ.org Nov 29, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (1990) 71% EDIT “With its commitment to authenticity from the visual look to costumes and art direction, with the choice of a film memorable to this day, Linklater’s "Nouvelle Vague" offers a wonderful immersion in film history in a humorous and illuminating production.” – AWFJ.org Nov 29, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Writer/director Nia DaCosta undertakes the daunting challenge of radically reimagining Henri Ibsen’s iconic play of Hedda Gabler’s restrictive, resented life in 19th century Norway altering the power dynamics through racial and sexual transformations.” – AWFJ.org Nov 29, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “Japanese director/co-writer Hikari effectively dramatizes renting actors in "Rental Family" as unemployed American Phillip Vandarpleog (Brendan Fraser), living in contemporary Tokyo, must scramble for a job, landing work from a human rental agency.” – AWFJ.org Nov 29, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Director Lynne Ramsay courageously and perceptively tackles the daunting subject of a woman's mental health illness exhibited erratically and uncontrollably. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “Director Raoul Peck’s brilliant, sobering documentary interprets Orwell’s insights into ways authoritarians gain and retain power . . . through a diverse and inclusive selection of archival news and film clips plus a summary of Orwell’s life. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “As always with Baumbach, the film delivers a fast-paced, entertaining narrative with profound insights embedded therein. With George Clooney as Jay, the provocative self-examination of a celebrated professional life gains unparalleled impact. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “Masterfully presented in director Andres Veiel’s documentary, Riefenstahl, for her entire life post World War II, vociferously proclaimed her complete ignorance of the Holocaust and denied any support of Nazi ideology, revealed here in substantive detail.” – AWFJ.org Nov 9, 2025 Full Review Where to Land (2025) EDIT “Director Hal Hartley's two-dimensional characters express their observations directly, without extensive, insightful reflection or challenging complexity. As a result, his films come across more as focused lectures than as irresistible engagement. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 9, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s film is an important, profound documentary. From April 2024 through April 2025 via internet, Sepideh and 25-year-old Palestinian Fatem Hassona talk about what Fatem sees and hears in northeastern Gaza City. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 9, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “The raison d’être is to thrill to and feel a part of the exhilarating battles though only surrendering one’s mind will keep two hours interesting. The glorified goal of permanence seems available only to A.I. which has already invaded our world. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 1, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “This film chases after a clear presentation of characters awash in acrimonious crises. The jumbled ideas are as muddled as the relationships in a film with no semblance of constructive insight into the university world or its affected individuals. ” – AWFJ.org Nov 1, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “This straightforward, difficult confrontation with familial trauma and mental illness presents the complexity and brilliance of Springsteen who fought to come out the other side of darkness, navigating the journey through his artistic genius.” – AWFJ.org Nov 1, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Writer/director Mary Bronstein explores the fraught interior landscape of Long Island therapist Linda. In an incredible performance, Rose Byrne plunges wholly into Linda’s mental unraveling as she struggles to navigate the care of her ill daughter.” – AWFJ.org Nov 1, 2025 Full Review
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