Best Movies of 2025

Was 2025 a good year for movies? I find myself asking that question at the end of every year, although I don’t know why, because every year, regardless of its unique ups and downs, ultimately contains multiple gems that are worth getting excited about. My favorites mostly came in a rush at the tail-end of […]

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True/False 2024 Dispatch: “There Was, There Was Not,” “1489”

Displacement has been a common theme across many of the films I’ve watched at this year’s True/False Film Festival, the annual event in Columbia, Missouri celebrating nonfiction filmmaking, and with the current genocide unfolding in Palestine, each of them feels particularly urgent. Coincidentally, two Armenian films by women documenting the Artsakh War and the way […]

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