My top 10 films of 2025: 1. 28 Years Later 2. Afternoons of Solitude 3. My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow 4. It Was Just an Accident 5. One Battle After Another 6. The Mastermind 7. Black Bag 8. The Long Walk 9. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk 10. Cloud #filmsky

TONIGHT and THURSDAY (but not tomorrow) we are bringing the beavers back home: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is playing here, its first St. Louis venue, for the first time since March 2024! Showtime 7:00pm. Free mini-posters to the first ten attendees each night!

Really happy to see Afternoons of Solitude here. #filmsky #awardsseason

Our 2025 nominations for BEST SCREENPLAY – ORIGINAL Blue Moon It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme Sinners Sorry, Baby Weapons

Our 2025 nominations for BEST FILM Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Phoenician Scheme The Secret Agent Sinners Superman Weapons

Our 2025 nominations for our unique category: BEST SCENE The Globe theatrical production in “Hamnet” Finale in “It Was Just an Accident” Music evolution “I Lied to You” in “Sinners” Baktan Cross Car Chase Scene in “One Battle After Another The fate of Aunt Gladys in “Weapons”

Hello! We are the St. Louis Film Critics Association. We founded in 2004, and currently have 18 film lovers on our roster. We are going to announce our nominees for our 2025 awards today around 5pm central. Stay tuned for updates! Our winners will be announced next Sunday (after we argue & vote).

Marty Meh.

An intensely gripping acting showcase for Jennifer Lawrence, director Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” paints an existentially nightmarish picture of motherhood, conformity, and relationships in fateful disarray. poplifestl.com/jennifer-law... #filmsky

An aggressively unpleasant experience that traps viewers within its protagonist’s tortured psyche, director Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” throws us into the void and leaves us to flail. poplifestl.com/if-i-had-leg... #filmsky

A nail-biting exploration of the selfishness and deep-seated class enmity afflicting our doomed species, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia” grips from its opening frames and never lets go, even as it grows increasingly, thoroughly unhinged. poplifestl.com/ensemble-ast... #filmsky

Had a great time returning to the legendary Take-Up Podcast to talk Hot Fuzz (the best film of all time)! #filmsky

Director Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite" is a bleak and palm-sweating look at just how profoundly screwed we all are. poplifestl.com/kathryn-bige... #filmsky

Plenty of punches are thrown but few connect in Benny Safdie’s solo directorial debut “The Smashing Machine,” an awards-hungry drama that sacrifices depth for dress up. poplifestl.com/benny-safdie... #filmsky

Now available to rent/buy on Prime Video! Other digital platforms October 7. Definitely not a "feel good" film, but a must watch nevertheless. #filmsky

Eleanor the 🤷 poplifestl.com/june-squibb-... #filmsky

TONIGHT and TOMORROW Hong Sangsoo's current release BY THE STREAM returns for its final two shows! With Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo. Showtime 7:30pm. Consensus from our Hong regulars after last week's preview is that this one is one of his best ever--everyone was aglow after the screening.

Alternately goofy and self-serious, director Justin Tipping’s “HIM” fumbles intriguing ideas and crash lands into a barren field of mediocrity. poplifestl.com/sports-horro... #filmsky

As it descends further into chaos, director Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller “Caught Stealing” becomes increasingly muddled; it’s a grimy, mean-spirited film that’s effective in spurts but remains dazed by (literal) hit-or-miss sensibilities. #filmsky poplifestl.com/darren-arono...

Highest 2 Lowest... more like, uh, Decent 2 Quite Good.

Watching “Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave” on VHS while I was little pretty much sealed the deal for me being a lifelong cinephile.

Yeah, I think it’s time for a rewatch of the Bourne movies.

The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.

Stop scrolling, & post two characters who bring you joy & happiness.

Viscerally effective but narratively stretched beyond its limits, director Michael Shanks’ debut feature, Together, succeeds as a darkly funny look at codependency taken to outlandish extremes. thefictiondepartment.com/together-rev... #filmsky

Had to think about it a while, but I ended up really enjoying"Eddington." poplifestl.com/ari-asters-l... #filmsky

Yeah, another masterpiece incoming. Screening this weekend @wufilmseries.bsky.social ! poplifestl.com/afternoons-o... #filmsky

"Sorry, Baby" is one of the year's best films so far. poplifestl.com/sorry-baby-i... #filmsky

Not quite "super," but pretty good. #filmsky poplifestl.com/james-gunn-m...

At last, after what seems like 28 years later after the movie released, here's my review of "28 Years Later." poplifestl.com/boyle-and-ga...

Here's my New York Times Reader's Choice ballot for the best movies of the 21st century so far. Tough choices. Surprised they didn't have David Fincher's "The Killer" in their system... www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #filmsky

Happy No Kings Day (fuck Cheeto Mussolini), but, uh, here's my review of the mediocre "The Life of Chuck." poplifestl.com/the-life-of-...

Favorite films of 2025 so far (unranked): - Black Bag - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning - Misericordia - Eephus - Sinners - Blue Sun Palace - April -Caught by the Tides #filmsky

Wes Anderson being Wes Anderson. Which is good! poplifestl.com/mid-tier-wes...

I'll be thinking about this film for a long time. #filmsky poplifestl.com/april-is-a-d...

Mission: Possible – I Am Entertained poplifestl.com/cruise-goes-...

We Were Dangerous – Movie Was Good. poplifestl.com/ensemble-shi...

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky

TONIGHT this season's Frederick Wiseman retrospective continues with his 1990 effort CENTRAL PARK, showing at 7:00pm! No trailers, so expect Central Park itself on our screen at 7 sharp. Sponsored by The Take-Up.

I get that people are upset about Trump being Trump and going after movies, but nothing we say here is going to do anything. Want to help? Put money into that ecosystem. Go see a foreign film in a theater this week, get them charting on streaming services, buy discs.

if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.

Frederick Wiseman supremacy.

Definitely wasn’t miserable watching Misericordia! poplifestl.com/misericordia...

Wow.

Death of a Unicorn... Moderate Boredom of Alex. poplifestl.com/death-of-a-u...

A rainy weekend means it's time for another rewatch of "Black Bag." poplifestl.com/soderbergh-d...

This week at Arkadin Cinema!

Before this series, the only Wiseman I'd seen was "Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros." These are some of the most soul-shaking documentaries ever...