Boyhood: The Moment Seizes You
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KPop Demon Hunters: Born to Be
Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans’s seismic pop-culture phenomenon is a colorful, musical twist on a classic coming-of-age story, featuring a young protagonist reckoning with the contrast between who she really is and who she’s expected to be.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
In one of his most personal films, the Oscar-winning director imbues Mary Shelley’s gothic tale with elements of family melodrama and traces of his own Catholic upbringing.
God Laughs: Stanley Kubrick’s Cinema
Throughout his enormously influential body of work, the great director explored the conflict between humankind’s obsession with control and our capacity for error and failure.
Christiane F.: Up Against the Wall
Uli Edel’s harrowing tale of youth rebellion is one of cinema’s greatest Berlin films, a visceral urban portrait that captures the city’s doom and decadence during the Cold War era.