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) ****
April
Immoral Tales (Walerian Borowczyk, 1973) **
Seven Years of Night (Choo Chang-min, 2018) **
Mr. Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael, 2009) *
Bubchen (Roland Klick, 1968) ***1/2
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) ****
Extra Ordinary (Mike Ahern/Enda Loughman, 2019) ****
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) ****
Not Friends (Atta Hemwadee, 2023) ****
Novocaine (Dan Berk/Robert Olsen, 2025) **1/2
Beautiful Sunday (Tetsuya Nakashima, 1998) ***1/2
The Southerner (Jean Renoir, 1945) ****
The Square (Ruben Ostlund, 2017) ***1/2
The Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte, 1999) ***1/2
Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011) ***1/2
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010) ****1/2
May
Eephus (Carson Lund, 2024) ****
Snack Shack (Adam Rehmeier, 2024) ****
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (Gene Wilder, 1975) **
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977) ****
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986) ***
Late Night Shopping (Saul Metzstein, 2001) ****
The Butterfly Murders (Tsui Hark, 1979) ***1/2
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1994) ***1/2
Knox Goes Away (Michael Keaton, 2023) ***1/2
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011) ****
The Funeral (Juzo Itami, 1984) ****
Rurouni Kenshi Part II: Kyoto Inferno (Keishi Otomo, 2014) **1/2
Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Marcel Carne, 1951) ****
The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell, 2010) **
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, 2015) ****
Alienoid (Choi Dong-hoon, 2022) ***
Vengeance Most Fowl (Merlin Crossingham/Nick Park, 2024) ***1/2
The First Slam Dunk (Takehiko Inoue, 2022) ****1/2
June
The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh, 1939) ****
Journey into Fear (Norman Foster, 1943) ***
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled in (Soi Cheang, 2024) ***
Of Freaks and Men (Aleksei Balabanov, 1998) **
Molli and Max in the Future (Michael Lukk Litwak, 2023) ***1/2
Free Enterprise (Robert Meyer Burnett, 1998) **1/2
Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, 2023) ****1/2
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013) ****
Rome, Armed to the Teeth (Umberto Lenzi, 1976) ***
Teacher’s Diary (Nithiwat Tharathorn, 2014) ***1/2
Don’t Look Up (Adam Mckay, 2021) **
Memoirs of a Murderer (Yu Irie, 2017) ***1/2
Fragile as the World (Rita Azevedo Gomez, 2001) ***
Matewan (John Sayles, 1987) ****
Falling in Love Like in Movies (Yandy Laurens, 2023) ****