SOUND OF FALLING Review: Fascinating and Powerful Cinematic Experience
From writer-director Mascha Schilinski, this Cannes Jury Prize winner is Germany's Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards®.
A PRIVATE LIFE Review: Jodie Foster Investigates Mystery. In French, No Less.
Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira and Mathieu Amalric also star in Rebecca Zlotowski's sixth feature, a mix of situational comedy and cozy mystery.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU Review: Epic but Tender Family Saga about Palestinian Multigenerational Trauma
Cherien Dabis directs and stars in the drama, alongside Saleh Bakri and Mohammad Bakri.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2025
Here at ScreenAnarchy we wish you all a very fortuitous 2026! And now that we're in a new year, let's close off the old one with our traditional Top 10 list. This time, 21 of our writers forwarded their favorite...
THE PLAGUE Review: Zero for Conduct Again
Joel Edgerton, Everett Blunck, Kayo Martin, and Kenny Rasmussen star in Charlie Poling's psychological thriller.
IS THIS THING ON? Review: Standup Comedy, Midlife Marital Crisis, Familiar Trajectory
Will Arnett and Laura Dern star in Bradley Cooper's new film.
SCARLET Review: If Hamlet Was a Sword-Wielding Warrior Princess Having a Boss Fight in the Afterlife
A young woman finds herself in a horrifying afterlife, where many things look like our familiar reality, but with a few macabre twists. A brief flashback interlude informs us that the heroine is Scarlet, a medieval-era princess who tried to...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 25 Films Of The 21st Century
We're almost at the end of the year 2025, and that means that the first quarter of the century is already gone. How did that happen so fast? Do quarter centuries currently go by as fast as decades did when...
THE SECRET AGENT Review: Much Smarter Than It Pretends To Be
Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura.
THE THING WITH FEATHERS Review: Big Bird and the Stages of Grief
There are a wide variety of memes on the Internet, where famous movie characters make alternative choices at the start of their story (Neo takes the blue pill, Harry doesn’t go with Hagrid, and so forth), and the end credits...
THE RUNNING MAN Review: Hacking the Dystopian System Yet Again
Glen Powell and Josh Brolin star in Edgar Wright's new adaptation of a novel by Stephen King, published under his pen name Richard Bachman.
New York 2025 Review: THE SECRET AGENT, Stylish, Inventive Political Thriller on the Intricacies of Historical Memory
Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura.
New York 2025 Review: TWO PROSECUTORS, Hell Is Legal Evil
Sergei Loznitsa's film stars Alexander Kuznetsov.
New York 2025 Review: IS THIS THING ON?, Bradley Cooper Adapts an Old Joke About the Lengths Men Can Go to Avoid Therapy
Will Arnett and Laura Dern star.
New York 2025 Review: A PRIVATE LIFE, The Adventures of an American Psychiatrist in France
Jodie Foster stars (speaking French) in Rebecca Zlotowski's murder mystery.
New York 2025 Review: JAY KELLY, Underwhelming Tale of the Existential Woes of Stardom
George Clooney stars, with Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, and Emily Mortimer, who wrote the script with director Noah Baumbach.
New York 2025 Review: SOUND OF FALLING, Girls, Interrupted
Mascha Schilinski’s second feature, Sound of Falling, which premiered at Cannes earlier this year, where it won the Jury Prize, is one of those films, the charm of which is very hard to articulate clearly to an unsuspecting potential viewer...
New York 2025 Review: A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, The Last Minutes of the World As We Know It
On a seemingly ordinary morning, a nuclear missile is launched somewhere out of the Pacific Ocean and is on a trajectory to hit Chicago in about 20 minutes. On a military base in Alaska, the officers who first detected the...
New York 2025 Review: PETER HUJAR'S DAY, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man in 1970s NYC
Ira Sachs' newest film stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall.
New York 2025 Review: LATE FAME, Tender, Bittersweet Dramedy About Horrors of Needing Validation
Willem DaFoe, Edmund Donovan, and Greta Lee star in Kent Jones' sophomore feature.
