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Author: Ryan Beaupit

Ryan Beaupit is an author and former film podcaster based in New York. His favorite movies include The Nightmare Before Christmas, Harakiri, Microcosmos, and The Dark Knight. Follow Ryan on BlueSky @plexsty.bsky.social and Letterboxd @circleoffilm

Reviews: Fantasy Life

April 2, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 Matthew Shear’s directorial debut Fantasy Life follows Sam (Shear) and Diane (Amanda Peet) in an awkward journey of self-discovery. Sam is…

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Reviews: A Magnificent Life

March 27, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 In Sylvain Chomet’s A Magnificent Life, he has the easy task of making Marcel Pagnol’s life out to be extraordinary. It…

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Reviews: The President’s Cake

March 11, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 The vast majority of American kids stand at the start of their school day and say the Pledge of Allegiance to…

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Reviews: Sundance Shorts Round Up

March 5, 2026

Sundance 2026 has come and gone with a lot of word of mouth for many of the films screened during the festival. Their virtual…

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Reviews: Scarlet

February 4, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Mamoru Hosoda takes his interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet into the Otherworld, a life after death that offers a wealth of…

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Reviews: Paying For It

January 28, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Ed. note: read our original reviews of Paying For It from TIFF and VIFF. The contrasts in Paying For It start…

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Reviews: The Choral

January 7, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 When many of the young men in Yorkshire enlist to fight in World War I, it leaves a lot of vacancies…

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Reviews: Meadowlarks

November 25, 2025

In Meadowlarks, four adult indigenous siblings meet for the first time after being victims of the 60’s Scoop in Canada.

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Reviews: Heaven – Restoration

November 20, 2025

Heaven, the directorial debut of Diane Keaton, is a documentary asking everyday people their thoughts on the afterlife that originally came out in 1987.

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Reviews: Nuremberg

November 5, 2025

James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg recreates the famous trials of high ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring and the men who tried him.

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