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Spring 2026 Movies To Put on Your Calendar
A season of films that rush in like Ryan Gosling sci-fi and out like Sheep Detectives.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Mercury ReviewÂ
The latest entry in Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s high-spirited satire of their own lives is a funny big budget time travel misadventure.
Gimme Shelter: Jason Statham’s Latest Thriller Warms Up a Typically Cold January
Director Ric Roman Waugh thinks this is the perfect time of year to have grizzled action stars confront their mortality.
Gus Van Sant's New Film Returns to His True Crime Roots
In Dead Man's Wire nothing goes according to plan, including Van Sant's return to his true crime roots.
Bi Gan’s Resurrection Revives 100 Years of Movie-Making for One Long Dream
Dream logic takes over in the Chinese writer-director’s latest technical marvel.
The Mercury’s 10 Favorite Movies of 2025
The best movies of 2025 are at war with the machine, data centers, and helplessness. What a relief.
Portland and Guillermo del Toro Are Symbiotically Bound
At a Tomorrow Theater screening, the director discussed the rise of AI, the future of stop-motion animation, and who he identifies with in Frankenstein.
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man Doesn’t Really Go Anywhere
The idea of a righteously angry movie about the shitty state of 2025 had a lot of potential; it was squandered by a too-handsome Glen Powell.
Train Dreams Go on When I Close My Eyes
Director Clint Bentley's ode to a small, quiet life in the Pacific Northwest is also one of the year’s most plainly beautiful films.
Bugonia Is a Good Time Yorgos Lanthimos Film
The famous Greek director of strange and unsettling movies has made another strange and unsettling movie.
The Strange Sublime Cinema of Motern Media and Evil Puddle
Matt Farley and Charlie Roxburgh make micro-budget films followed by and starring their fans.
One Battle After Another Captures the Relentless Overstimulation of Being Alive in 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is a funny, breathless, sometimes overwhelming spectacle of American violence.
Eleven Films to Argue About in Fall 2025Â
The season is stacked with the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, a Safdie, a Tron movie, and more!
Megadoc Is an Essential Portrait of Grand Delusion
We thought we were done talking about Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, but this new, making-of documentary is fascinating.
Eleven Films to Argue About in Fall 2025
The season is stacked with films from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsey, Chloé Zhao, Kathryn Bigelow, Yorgos Lanthimos, a Safdie, a Tron movie, and more!
Nobody 2: Twice the Carnage, but Not Enough
Bob Odenkirk's dad justice series kicks up the brutality with the help of Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto.
My Eternity Evening With Francis Ford Coppola
Inside the iconic director's Portland stop on his Megalopolis Tour—but first, a few tangents!
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