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Jim Laczkowski

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Deepfaking Sam Altman (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “Deepfaking Sam Altman works best as a thought experiment about our relationship with technology and why we’re so eager to embrace new forms of connection, even artificial ones. A compelling conversation stimulator to say the least.” – Director's Club Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Predators (2025) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “One of the year's best films; a documentary I won't stop thinking about any time soon. A meditation on ethics, true crime’s popularity, and America’s preference for punishment over rehabilitation, for spectacle over understanding and compassion. Riveting” – Director's Club Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Unbanked (2025) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “Unbanked offers an intriguing, if somewhat one-sided and simplified, glimpse into what might be the future of money. It could've been less biased and taken a more unconventional approach but it's a decent entry point into a complicated concept.” – Director's Club Oct 29, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Living in this country feels like fighting one battle after another. PTA made a crackerjack of an action comedy at a time of extreme anxiety, huge changes in my life and made it in a way that only he could accomplish. The cast is perfect, so is the film.” – Director's Club Sep 25, 2025 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% 4.5/5 EDIT “One of the year's best films is a remarkable music documentary about an artist that meant so much to me, it's hard to express it all here in a review. This film shows that our love of music, of the arts, of people like Jeff Buckley, is truly, never over.” – Director's Club Aug 17, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “One of the year's best. Michael Shanks' debut arrives as one of the year's most unsettling examinations of toxic attachment, wrapped in a nasty packaging of Yuzna-esque effects that will leave everyone both laughing and squirming in equal measure. ” – Director's Club Jul 27, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “Surprisingly fantastic thanks to the cast and Shakman's vision. Haven't enjoyed a comic book movie this much in a while, probably because this one isn't an exposition bot / origin story / connected to a million other shows to where it's enjoyed on its own” – Director's Club Jul 27, 2025 Full Review AJ Goes to the Dog Park (2024) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Runs out of steam but I laughed quite hard & often. Channels the early manic energy of Zucker Abrahams Zucker through a distinctly absurdist cartoonish lens. It's wildly silly and has an underwhelming final act but still recommending for the ambition.” – Director's Club Jul 27, 2025 Full Review Magnetosphere (2024) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Nicola Rose uses Maggie's unique perception as a metaphor for the teenage experience of feeling like an outsider. Even if you don't share the condition, you'll be able to connect to her particular struggle and the trepidation she experiences among peers.” – Director's Club Jul 27, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 3/5 EDIT “The film wants credit for depicting narcissistic attitudes and the political divide during the pandemic without taking a clear stance, resulting in a work that feels morally unsound. It'll generate discussion but it also becomes muddled and confused.” – Director's Club Jul 19, 2025 Full Review The Passengers (2025) 4.5/5 EDIT “One of the best films of 2025 so far, an experimental time-capsule documentary that truly showcases humanity at its most honest, vulnerable and revealing. A reminder that we are all passengers and our stories matter more than we might realize.” – Director's Club Jul 4, 2025 Full Review Brother Verses Brother (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Brother Verses Brother is ultimately a meditation on family, mortality, and the healing power of organic, artistic expression. The Gold brothers' journey culminates in a moving finale that feels earned despite the film's structural limitations. ” – Director's Club May 10, 2025 Full Review Familiar Touch (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “By treating Ruth's experience with compassion, Friedland has crafted a tender, observational film that illuminates the dignity in vulnerability and the persistence of selfhood even as memory fades. This is empathic filmmaking and one of the year's best.” – Director's Club May 10, 2025 Full Review Friendship (2024) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “More than just another cringe comedy—it's an insightful exploration of male loneliness and the desperate need for connection even if it loses steam a bit here and there. Fans of Rudd and Robinson will find a lot to appreciate with plenty of LOL moments.” – Director's Club May 10, 2025 Full Review Sharp Corner (2024) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “A dark cautionary tale about the dangers of masculine insecurity and the desperate pursuit of significance. Though a bit long, this is a really nice showcase for one of our best character actors: Ben Foster.” – Director's Club May 10, 2025 Full Review The Zebra and the Bear (2024) 3.5/5 EDIT “The Zebra and the Bear thoughtfully reminds us that behind every medical statistic are real families fighting battles most of us can't even fathom. A compassionate, engaging documentary that is quite effective, whether you're a parent or not.” – Director's Club May 10, 2025 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Though it starts out slow, it becomes a galvanizing work by a master director that reminds us of film's unique power to challenge, disturb, and ultimately transform our understanding of what it means to be an imperfectly lustful human being. ” – Director's Club Apr 11, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% 4.5/5 EDIT “One of Cronenberg's best in quite a while. The Shrouds is a deeply compelling and personal meditation on mortality from a filmmaker who has spent his career examining the relationship between technology, intimacy, and the complicated human psyche.” – Director's Club Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Secret Mall Apartment (2024) 98% 3.5/5 EDIT “A thoroughly engaging documentary with a lot on its mind while also being consistently entertaining. Reminds us that sometimes the most profound artistic statements happen in the spaces no one thought to look.” – Director's Club Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Darkest Miriam (2024) 86% 4.5/5 EDIT “Like a library itself, Darkest Miriam creates a welcoming space where conflicted feelings of being lonely and imperfectly human are given the attention and compassion each of us deserves. Lower is extraordinary. This is my favorite film of 2025 so far.” – Director's Club Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Eric LaRue (2023) 69% 4/5 EDIT “Eric LaRue is one of the year’s best films containing a central performance from Greer that is a career highlight. Shannon's directorial debut is assured, challenging and thought-provoking in all the right ways.” – Director's Club Apr 1, 2025 Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 73% 2/5 EDIT “As a fan of the other two entries, especially Pearl, I was shocked at how little Maxxxine has to offer as a conclusion to the Mia Goth show. We could’ve simply been satisfied with a two-parter and that lingering closing credits image of Pearl’s smile.” – Director's Club Jul 16, 2024 Full Review In a Violent Nature (2024) 79% 1.5/5 EDIT “If the attempt was to make a boring horror film, then the filmmaker succeeded. Otherwise, it's tedious, bland and even the conceit is abandoned by the final act. Yes, there's one great kill but that's about the only moment that's memorable.” – Director's Club Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 85% 2/5 EDIT “This movie has been done so many times before - think Angel Heart, Seven, Exorcist III - that I was taken aback by how little innovation there was throughout from a talent like Perkins. Uninvolving with a reveal that left me bewildered rather than shocked” – Director's Club Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Robot Dreams (2023) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Make it the cult hit it deserves to be. It’s a moving experience all about overcoming loss, and that is an emotion that can certainly resonate across generations. I can almost guarantee, the smile will not leave your face throughout the entire film.” – Director's Club Jul 2, 2024 Full Review
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