Favorite performances, scenes, films, and more, from the Dissident Cinema Marathon.

Jane Schoenbrun’s meta-slasher is the film of the year so far.

The Movie Mogul Posterior Test

Many subjects, one tragic reality. 

Remember me.

Live action or animated Spidey?

25 years of Spidey on screen.

Examining the wisdom of Howard Hawks.

Sing to me of the man, Muse.

A dog is better than a landscape?

Marcel Ophuls’s bracing documentary about French collaboration during the Nazi occupation.

A strong first half of the year in movies.

Does every film about war end up being pro-war?

The Coen Brothers’ '96 masterpiece turns 30.

Two Nolan mind-benders enter. Only one leaves.

1996’s #1 movie is a fascinating product of its era.

Pixar tackles the digital age.

Steven Spielberg gives us another encounter.

The 1969 political thriller helped create the grammar for modern movie paranoia.

The box office horror hit and John Carney's latest musical crowd-pleaser.

Bringing silent film grammar to a post-war awakening. 

The insanity-inducing corridors of 2026 liminal horror.

E.T. phone his lawyer?

A disappointing cinematic return for Star Wars, and Boots Riley's radical I Love Boosters.

How the “In The Mood For Love” legend prepared for his new role.

Nature, Grace, and the Book of Job.

Looking through the lens of memory on Vancouver Island.

Neorealism meets the spy thriller.

The precision and craft of the best to ever do it.

No pursed lips — but not two nods.