For a film to get its own page on the main 2025 links page, it must receive at least 5 link submissions from our members with few exceptions. Here is a list of all films that haven’t quite reached that threshold yet. When it does, it will be moved to the main page and removed from this page.
The Damned
- Excerpt: Director Thordur Palsson – working from a lean yet powerful script by Jamie Hannigan – makes a brilliant entry into this genre with gorgeous visuals and riveting performances that keep us spellbound for its mercilessly short running time.
Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
- Excerpt: The inevitable question is whether this is a life anyone would want to prolong. Johnson makes no time for what we would consider the most valuable parts of life, family, friends, travel, music, art, pizza, chocolate, for meaning, connection, and pleasure.
From Ground Zero
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Some of the most impactful films feature the day-to-day difficulties of living through this war. Rabab Khamis’ ‘Recycling’ shows us how one woman uses one bucket of water…
- Excerpt: The film, which boasts Michael Moore as an executive producer, was spearheaded by Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi and consists of 22 short films ranging from 3 to 6 minutes in length, all depicting the current state of life in Gaza.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: No matter your opinion on the success of each, however, the whole is an undeniable document of an unspeakable tragedy. As a puppet declares during “Awakening”: everything is gone and the world just watched.
Oceans Are the Real Continents
- Excerpt: The specter of departure haunts every frame of Oceans Are the Real Continents, director Tommaso Santambrogio’s lyrical drama set in the Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños. Shot in a velvety black and white so rich that you can almost feel the texture of each shot through the screen, the film follows three sets of characters as they contemplate how the dark shadow of exile colors the past, present, and future of themselves and their country.
Putin
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The most charitable thing to say about Vega’s movie is that it is an unabashed condemnation of the man who has caused so much human suffering…Vega’s idea of an emotionally gutting climax is to focus on a puppy, cat and hamster before a nuclear explosion
