Sometimes a movie is a sum of past parts.

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#Top5FirstViews May 2026 Lurker (Alex Russell, 2025) **** Roofman (Derek Cianfrance, 2025) **** Fairyland (Andrew Durham, 2025) **** Andre is an Idiot (Tony Benna, 2025) **** The Plague (Charlie Polinger, 2025) ****
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#Top5FirstViews April 2026 Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2025) ****1/2 The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan, 2025) **** Companion (Drew Hancock, 2025) **** Twinless (James Sweeney, 2025) **** Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, 2025) ****
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#Top5FirstViews March 2026 The Traveling Executioner (Jack Smight, 1970) **** The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025) **** Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming, 1937) **** Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky, 2025) **** Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975) ****
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#Top5FirstViews February 2026 The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir, 2025) ****1/2 Sirat (Oliver Laxe, 2025) **** Sentimental Value (Joaquim Trier, 2025) **** The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfeldt, 2025) **** Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, 2025) ****
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#Top5FirstViews January 2026 Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015) ****1/2 Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981) **** On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) **** Hamnet (Chloe Zhao, 2025) ***1/2 Ordet (Theodore Dreiser, 1955) ***1/2
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#Top5FirstViews December 2025 Weapons (Zach Creager, 2025) ****1/2 Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor, 2025) ****1/2 If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Brownstein, 2025) ****1/2 The Last Unicorn (Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, 1982) **** The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) ****
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#Top5FirstViews November 2025 Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) ****1/2 Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947) **** One Battle After Another (PT Anderson, 2025) **** Shirley Valentine (Lewis Gilbert, 1989) **** Les Miserables (Claude Lelouche, 1995) ****
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#Top5FirstViews October 2025 Manon of the Spring (Claude Barris, 1986) ****1/2 The Exorcist (William Freidkan, 1973) ****1/2 Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) ****1/2 Jean de Florette (Claude Barris, 1986) ****1/2 The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) ****
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#Top5FirstViews September 2025 Apocalypse Now (Frances Ford Coppola, 1979) ****1/2 House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011) ****1/2 La Haine (Matheiu Kassovitz, 1995) **** Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichert, 2010) **** Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998) ****
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#Top5FirstViews August 2025 Underground (Emil Kusturica, 1995) ****1/2 For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965) ****1/2 Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) **** The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991) **** Bad Influence (Curtis Hanson, 1990) ****
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#Top5FirstViews July 2025 Sugar Colt (Franco Giraldi, 1966) **** Searching for Bobby Fisher (Steven Zailian, 1993) **** Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990) **** Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995) **** Girlhood (Celine Sciamma, 2014) ****
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#Top5FirstViews June 2025 The Ox-bow Incident (William A Wellman, 1942) ****1/2 The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Olphus, 1972) ****1/2 One False Move (Carl Franklin, 1991) ****1/2 Fellini’s Casanova (Frederico Fellini, 1976) **** Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, 2023) ****
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#Top5FirstViews May 2025 I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024) ****1/2 Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, 2024) ****1/2 Universal Language (Matthew Rankin, 2024) **** Sinners (Ryan Cougler, 2025) **** Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2024) ****
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#Top5FirstViews April 2025 Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, 1986) ****1/2 Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum, 2024) ****1/2 Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024) **** Late Night with the Devil (Colin and Cameron Carines, 2024) **** Heretic (Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, 2024) ****
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#Top5FirstViews February 2025 Soundtrack of a Coup D’Etat (Johan Grimonprez, 2024) **** Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen, 1972) **** Longlegs (Ozgood Perkins, 2024) **** Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, 1988) **** Hit Man (Richard Linklater, 2024) ****
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"'Anora' became the lowest-grossing best picture winner ever" claims @smbahr14 for @nytimes. That's.... so verifiably false. Anora made 41.3 million. Nomadland made 39.5 million. Coda made 2.2 million. #factchecking
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#Top5FirstViews February 2025 Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2024) ***** Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024) ****1/2 A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) ****1/2 A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024) ****1/2 The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024) ****
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Bring back clips!
The ‘Fab 5’ format will not be used for the acting categories at this year’s #Oscars, reports @Variety. (variety.com/2025/film/news/n…)
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#Top5FirstViews January 2025 Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) ***** The Pawnbroker (Sidney Pollack, 1964) ****1/2 Challengers (Luca Guadanigno, 2024) **** Buck and the Preacher (Sidney Poitier, 1972) **** Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024) ****
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