January
Incoming (Dave & John Chernin, 2024) **1/2
The Fish Tale (Shuichi Okita, 2022) ***1/2
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, 2024) ***1/2
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024) **
Life After Fighting (Bren Foster, 2024) **
Apocalypse Child (Mario Cornejo, 2015) ****
Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast, 2018) ***1/2
Blink Twice (Zoe Kravitz, 2024) ***
Riders of Justice (Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020) ****
Coquille (Shun Nakahara, 1999) ***1/2
Lionman (Natuk Baytan, 1975) ***
Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2022) ****
Escape From Mogadishu (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2021) ***1/2
River (Junta Yamaguchi, 2023) ****
The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, 1996) ***1/2
Alone (John Hyams, 2020) ***1/2
Burning Paradise (Ringo Lam, 1994) ****
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023) ****
Intimate Strangers (JQ Lee, 2018) ****
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki, 2023) ***
Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Kinji Fukusaku, 1973) ***1/2
Didi (Sean Wang, 2024) ****1/2
February
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, 2023) **
Beasts Clawing at Straws (Kim Yong-hoon, 2020) ****
Kill (Nikhil Nagesh Bhat, 2023) *1/2
6/45 (Park Gyu-tae, 2022) *** 1/2
Woman of the Hour (Anna Kendrick, 2024) **1/2
A Hero of our Times (Mario Monicelli, 1955) ***1/2
Love & Pop (Hideaki Anno, 1998) ****
Call me Chihiro (Rikiya Imaizumi, 2023) ***1/2
Penguin Pool Murder (George Archainbaud, 1932) ***
Faces of Anne (Kongdej Jaturanrasmee/Rasiguet Sukkarn, 2022) **1/2
Max Mon Amour (Nagisa Oshima, 1966) ***1/2
Lady Snowblood 2 (Toshiya Fujita, 1974) ***
A Difficult Life (Dino Risi, 1961) ****1/2
Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024) ****
In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell, 1992) ***1/2
My Only Sunshine (Reha Erdem, 2008) ***1/2
Mirage (Oriol Paulo, 2018) *1/2
The Velvet Underground (Todd Hayes, 2021) ****
March
A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-Woon, 2005) ****
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, 2011) ***1/2
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (Sydney Pollack, 1969) ***1/2
Society of the Snow (J.A. Bayona, 2023) ****1/2
The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023) ***1/2
Dream (Lee Byeong-heon) **1/2
Rocco and His Brothers (Luschino Visconti, 1960) ***1/2
Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier, 2024) ***1/2
The Art of Travel (Thomas Whelan, 2008) *1/2
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford, 1980) ***
The Admiral: The Roaring Currents (Kim Han-min, 2013) **
Here (Robert Zemeckis, 2024) ***1/2
The Young Stranger (John Frankenheimer, 1957) ***1/2
Gentlemen of Fortune (Aleksandr Sery, 1971) ***1/2
Haru (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1996) ****
Summer Detective (Lei Xu, 2019) ****