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Movie+TV Reviews
Home Is Where the Art Is in Joachim Trierโs Powerful โSentimental Valueโ
The directorโs new drama about two sisters and their filmmaker dad grappling with their family legacy won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
Now Playing (12/3/25)
In addition to ‘Hamnet,’ here’s what is playing in Northern and Central Vermont movie theaters this week. Listings include new movies, vintage films and a directory of open theaters.
Women Behaving Badly Command the Screen in โHeddaโ and โAfter the Huntโ
Two new streaming films offer twisted psychological games, barbed dinner-party conversations, bravura female performances and costume design to die for.
Tech Bro Arrogance Is the Monster in Guillermo del Toroโs Gloriously Gothic โFrankensteinโ
The directorโs lifelong passion project is a loose adaptation that still captures the atmosphere and spirit of Mary Shelleyโs novel โ up to a point.
Pastoral Motherhood Isnโt So Pretty in Polarizing Drama โDie My Loveโ
Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson play a couple on the verge of violent dissolution in the latest dark character study from Lynne Ramsay.
The Dark Satire of โBugoniaโ Feels All Too Timely
A conspiracy theorist abducts a pharmaceutical exec, convinced heโs saving the planet, in this remake of a Korean film from director Yorgos Lanthimos.

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Itโs the End of the World as We Know It in Chilling โA House of Dynamiteโ
Director Kathryn Bigelow explores the scenario of a surprise nuclear attack on the U.S. in a controversial cautionary tale that plays like a thriller.
Burlington Nativeโs Directorial Debut, โFucktoys,โ Offers Campy Delights
Visual virtuosity and timely themes give heft to this deliberate provocation from director-writer-star Annapurna Sriram, screening at VTIFF.
‘Roofmanโ Drags in Its Retelling of an Enticing True Story
Channing Tatum plays a sweet-tempered escaped felon who finds love while lying low in a Toys โRโ Us in this comedy-drama from director Derek Cianfrance.
The Reveals Arenโt the Point in the Painterly โAnemoneโ
Daniel Day-Lewis gives a powerful performance in a chamber drama directed by his son Ronan that is stronger on visuals and symbolism than on story.
โOne Battle After Anotherโ Is a Big, Bold Action Movie for Leftists
Paul Thomas Anderson hits a cultural nerve with his very loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchonโs novel about a washed-up activist called back into action.
โHimโ Is a Football Horror Movie About Hustle Culture
Justin Tippingโs movie is perhaps 70 percent MTV-style montages and 30 percent campy chaos, yet it all makes a twisted kind of sense.
Desperate Americans Take โThe Long Walkโ in a Chilling Adaptation of a Timeless Tale
Stephen Kingโs 1979 dystopian novel finally comes to the screen in an effectively stark vision from Francis Lawrence of โThe Hunger Gamesโ franchise.
โThe Conjuring: Last Ritesโ Should Live Up to Its Name
Horror icons Ed and Lorraine Warren return in a movie that spends a bafflingly small amount of screen time on the 1986 haunting at its center.

