viewThe Secret Agent: Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025
A nuanced film about the complexities of life under a dictatorship. Set in 1977 Brazil with time jumps to its modern era, the story follows engineer “Marcello” as he attempts to flee Brazil with his son before a government-backed capitalist finds and kills him.
The movie harkens back to a 70’s Hollywood political thriller with a dense plot, rich characters, and storytelling that trusts the audience. The movie is visually striking, and Filho follows side stories while bending genres.
Actor Wagner Moura, playing two roles, has the most on-screen charisma of any lead performance I saw in 2025.
Watch it.
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viewGood Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Gore Verbinski (2026)
Maybe only absurdist satire can shock society out of the techno-death spiral we are diving into. Verbinski’s movie posits just that, exploring the humor wing of the Black Mirror genre. Cat-centaurs, Mar’s Attacks’ rayguns and malicious toys are mere flourishes in this bonkers cautionary tale.
The plot is Terminator if it were mainlining a chemical cocktail of Monty Python and LSD. Geoffrey Zanelli’s score signposts the plot like video game music.
Sam Rockwell’s messenger from the future is a career time-capsule role, and he leads a talented cast that grounds the film’s hopeful humanitarianism.
Buy a ticket, take the ride.
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viewMarty Supreme, Josh Safdie (2025)
A frenetic thrill ride beginning in the Lower East Side tenement buildings of NYC to become a globetrotting misadventure, ping-ponging across Europe, Africa, Japan, and New Jersey. Loosely based on real-life Ping Pong shark Marty Reisman, the movie is a mash-up of The Hustler and True Romance.
The plot borders on ridiculous, but the film is fueled by Timothy Chalamet’s charisma, ensnaring us into his madness. Hyper-stylized, with anachronistic needle drops, the movie feels contemporary until you see a car or a rotary phone.
Safdie assembles a cast that includes reality show stars, rappers, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
See it.
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viewAbout Schmidt, Alexander Payne (2002)
This movie hits differently at 52 than at 32.
In 2002, it was a dull Election follow-up; in hindsight, it matches his Nebraska with its suburban inner-sprawl dread. A bleak movie that sends time running short pings to midlife doldrums. Birth, school, work, death-level doom.
Nicholson gives one of his last great performances, injecting a sneering everyman menace into scenes. Hope Davis at her mousy best, with June Squibb, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates, and Dr. Johnny Fever layering the slow-motion cringe with despair.
Pre-smartphone. Schmidt driving to Rush Limbaugh on AM radio? Quaint.
Need motivation to get going? Watch it.
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