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The Perfect Neighbor, Geeta Gandbhir (2025)

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature

A visceral ride-along to its obvious and tragic end in the ongoing battle between a local Karen and the rest of her suburban Ocala, Florida neighbors.

Gandbhir only uses police body- and interrogation-room cameras, court recordings, and 911 call audio to piece together the lead-up, chaos, and aftermath of the crime without reenactments, talking heads, or other documentary filmmaking methods. The result is like a ninety-minute Instagram Reel.

Beneath the crime-blotter rubbernecking is a brutally honest depiction of contemporary American life with its toxic stew of racial animus, late-stage capitalist sprawl, shoot-first culture, and inept public safety infrastructure.

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Train Dreams, Clint Bentley (2025)

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Train Dreams is haunting and poetic, capturing America when the old ways transitioned to the new. Bentley’s story is difficult to place on a historical timeline, leaving only visual hints, such as the introduction of chainsaws to logging or an astronaut orbiting Earth.

Logger Robert Grainier's melancholy journey allows us to witness the lives of those on the Northwest Frontier, from homesteaders to foreign workers to blue-collar philosophers to a feminist intellectual. Robert experiences trauma from white supremacist violence and tragedy from an unforgiving land. The film's message? Rugged individualism was a boondoggle that has always ensnared us.

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Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier (2025)

This Norwegian award-season juggernaut builds a universe within a family, their ancestors, and the good bones of an old house. Stellan Skarsgård plays the prodigal patriarch, a sensitive and selfish filmmaker returning to Norway to reconnect with his daughters after their mother’s death. And make a movie with an American movie star.

Trier shape-shifts tones, languages, and characters, crafting a layered viewing experience. Meta-awareness pervades the film, with commentary on modern cinema, the rise of fascism, and the liminality of art, life, and love. Not vignettes, not linear either – funny moments coexist with tension, sadness, and sweetness.

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A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Netflix 2025

3.5/5 Hot Chocolates

So begins Larry's 100 Holiday Movie Season! My family and I have been studying the genre for a decade, and for the past five years, I have been reviewing them on my Instagram. I am now applying the Drable/100 Word review format and cataloging them here. But don't worry, Instagram Fam, I will still post them there to preserve this cherished tradition.

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Notable Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Jameela Jamil, and Melissa Joan Hart. Silverstone, Hart produced for Mellisa Joan’s Mom’s Heartbreak Films production company.

Alicia Silverstone joins the Christmas Movie industrial complex.

Consciously uncoupling Silverstone and Oliver Hudson attempt to maintain post-breakup holiday normalcy with their young adult children, new paramours, friends, and Granddads. Awkward festive gatherings, hurt feelings, and rekindled emotions ensue.

After years of trying, Netflix got its version of the Hallmark Christmas RomCom right, mimicking the look/feel with a few meta inside jokes while tweaking the Young Professional Female Gets Stuck In Wintertown trope.

Middle-aged “what now” angst and Silverstone's puppy-dog eyes ground the plot, and the writing sprinkles the story with core genre elements: humor, empathy, warmth, and baking.

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A Merry Little Ex-Mas

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Pavements, Alex Ross Perry (2024)

An inventive and funny movie about a band. Parts documentary, narrative, and musical. The alchemy of farce, myth, and sentimentality is authentic to Pavement; even the parody is believable.

I searched my Human Intelligence for a comp, and the best I could find was Nathan Fielder. Both use absurdity to find truth.

I cried watching. Was it nostalgia and middle age? Was it watching with my teen daughter? Was it ignoring societal suffocation to revel in the community of the film’s third act? Was it the lyrics divorced from 90s cynicism by musical theater? Who knows, I did. Watch It.

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