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Fin: Mubi, Tubi and doomed quests for purity
Plus, 2025 white whales, remembering Mike Fossey, and more in this week’s notes column.
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The 2026 films I'm most anticipating
Thoughts on a new year
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The 2025 Ben Hecht 600 Part VI: The Finale
My final ranking of all the movies that I saw in 2025.
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'The Fall of Minneapolis' is Orwellian nonsense
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'Eyes Wide Shut,' a sex movie with a strange relationship to sex, turns 25
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No, Mamaw: Don’t blame Ron Howard’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ for the rise of J.D. Vance
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Fin: 'The Brutalist' and the question of Zionism
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‘AKA Charlie Sheen’ is the year’s ickiest documentary
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Fin: Don’t judge a movie by the director’s Twitter likes
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The 2025 Ben Hecht 600, Part V
From 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead' to 'The Housemaid,' ranking #s 200 to 101.
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The 2025 Ben Hecht 600, Part IV
Counting down all of the year's movies, from 'Nevermore: The Raven Effect' to 'Going Inside'
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The 2025 Ben Hecht 600, Part III
The year-end continues, from 'Becoming Katharine Graham' to 'Luv Ya, Bum!'
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The 2025 Ben Hecht 600: Part II
The second part of my annual countdown of the films of 2025, from 'Free For All' to 'Pomegranate.'
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The 2025 Ben Hecht 600, Part I
Counting down ALL of this year's movies. Part I goes from 'Kinda Pregnant' to 'Waltzing With Brando'
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'She Rides Shotgun,' ‘Brooklyn, Minnesota’, ’Dance Freak,’ ‘Ebony & Ivory,’ ‘Where to Land,’ and more from the bottom of the screener pile
Plus, an introduction to this year's year-end countdown.
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'One Battle After Another' and 'Sinners' dominate the 2025 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle awards
PFCC picks its winners, for the ninth year.
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