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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.

Dom SinacolaDecember 22, 2025 3:00 pmMarch 31, 2026 9:16 am

Of the many exceptional movies I saw in 2025—10 of which I have listed below—the majority of them were available to catch in a Portland theater. The thriving ecosystem of independently-owned cinemas spread across our city is near inimitable, especially given our glut of centenarian show houses. While monster studios continue to eat each other, […]

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The Big Holiday Episode of The Big Box Set

How a DIY studio in NE Portland is capturing the spirit of public-access television.

Nolan ParkerDecember 19, 2025 11:00 amDecember 19, 2025 7:00 pm

Nolan Parker

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With Marty Supreme Josh Safdie Gives Us Another Movie by and for Insecure Men

It will almost certainly win a lot of prizes.

HR SmithDecember 17, 2025 3:00 pmDecember 25, 2025 3:55 pm

This one goes out to all my insecure little dudes.

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A Very Festive Second Run Portland

City cinemas come bearing 13 repertory films you should see this month.

Lindsay CostelloDecember 1, 2025 3:00 pmMarch 2, 2026 9:29 pm

Lindsay Costello

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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.

Dom SinacolaNovember 24, 2025 2:00 pmDecember 3, 2025 4:41 am

Guillermo del Toro sincerely concluded: I discovered I was a 14-year-old girl in Victorian times.

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Eternity Is the Straightest Rom-Com That Ever Straighted

A24’s ode to serial monogamy dismisses a perfectly rational two-husband solution.

HR SmithNovember 18, 2025 6:00 pmDecember 3, 2025 5:27 pm

HR Smith

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Kelly Reichardt’s Small Politics

The Mastermind’s Josh O’Connor is an art thief who can’t outrun the world he’s avoiding.

Lindsay CostelloNovember 18, 2025 1:30 pmNovember 18, 2025 9:41 pm

In her 1970 essay “On the Morning After the Sixties,” Joan Didion described her disillusionment with the idea that political protest could “affect man’s fate in the slightest.” It’s an opinion James Blaine “J.B.” Mooney might share, if he were paying attention. He’s the lead character and hapless art thief in director Kelly Reichardt’s new […]

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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.

Dom SinacolaNovember 14, 2025 5:15 amDecember 3, 2025 5:43 pm

Dom Sinacola

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Second Run Portland: In Memoria, Tilda Swinton Has a Sonic Headache

Plus more slow cinema, Celtic myth, and Sergei Parajanov in smell-o-vision.

Lindsay CostelloNovember 7, 2025 4:20 pmMarch 3, 2026 9:18 pm

Unlike some months, the repertory movie screenings of November lack a natural theme. But our indie cinemas have still formed a united front, choosing films that ask their audiences to hang tight with a little more focus and faith than usual. Surreal and nonlinear selections like The Double Life of Véronique, The Color of Pomegranates, […]