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November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Some great values at SIFF today, including the Palme d'Or winner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, which we reviewed briefly at TIFF:
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Might have more later, but we had a spoiler-free assessment of BUGONIA from its US premiere back in Telluride. The latest paranoid nightmare from Yorgos Lanthimos hits theaters just in time to inspire all your shaved head Halloween costume needs.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Liam Neeson gets many (many!) laughs, and some revenge, in 📽️ THE NAKED GUN -- Chris celebrates Akiva Schaffer's revival of the lost art of the big screen gut-busters. See Neeson and Pamela Anderson's hilarious new cop comedy in theaters everywhere this weekend.

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August 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Ari Aster drags us back to pandemic hell with 📽️EDDINGTON -- Josh wishes it has been quarantined.

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July 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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"Celine Song's 📽️ MATERIALISTS checks a lot of boxes, but is that enough?" -- Josh can't decide whether the new romance (in theaters including @siffnews.bsky.social tomorrow) starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans is subversive , terrible, or both.

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June 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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#SIFF2025: Chris has been watching his way through @SIFFnews.bsky.social's Documentary Competition and has reviews of the first half of the films. Several have additional screenings or will be available to view online next week.

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May 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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In the end, Chris had the most accurate picks among SunBreak prognosticators, but the anonymous ballot tally still beat us all by 1.5 correct predictions.
March 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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The year's most "monumental" film is finally playing Seattle's most epic screen: THE BRUTALIST gets SIFF-e-rama treatment Downtown. Read Morgen's review and Josh's Top Ten take.

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January 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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We reviewed RAINIER when it played SIFF this spring; you have another chance to see your favorite classic ads on a big screen when it plays at the Film Center next week!
Who’d have imagined that the history of Seattle could be told by a series of quirky ad campaigns? Isaac Olsen does something like that with this assemblage of some of the greatest hits of advertising for Rainier beer. Amid economic devastation of Boeing cutbacks in the 1970s, a beloved regional beer turned to an upstart creative agency to seize back dominance from Budweiser’s chokehold on the cheap beer marketplace. Along with his compatriots from the ashes of Seattle Magazine (the first one), Terry Heckler would go on to introduce the iconography of herds of beer bottles, crossing drizzly back roads, roaming through picturesque northwest settings, and eventually charging through Pioneer Square Mardi Gras crowds. They’d capture one perfect shot of a motorcycle buzzing into the distance, churn out a series of parodies with their finger on the pulse of pop culture, invent spokesfrogs decades before their competitors, and, most bizarrely enter into a series of absurdist ads featuring Mickey Rooney. Rather than simply being a tribute reel to Heckler’s staggeringly influential career, the documentary instead swerves to celebrate the region, its personality, and the talented cast of collaborators who ran wild with a beer company’s leniency to create an enduring brand still beloved by locals.
November 29, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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We reviewed FISH WAR during #siffty -- very excited that it'll be back on the big screen as part of the SFCS series with the filmmakers in town at @siffnews.bsky.social film center.
November 27, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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In theaters this weekend, just in time for spooky season: THE APPRENTICE, which we reviewed in brief at Telluride.

https://thesunbreak.com/2024/08/31/telluride-2024-saturday/
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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If you want to see THE HIDDEN and hear from Kyle MacLachlan next month at @SIFFnews, I'd grab your seats RIGHT NOW. The floor is nearly sold out and the balcony's filling up! https://www.siff.net/cinema/in-theaters/the-hidden
November 22, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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At the @siffnews awards brunch, where DANCING QUEEN claimed the Golden Space Needle audience prize for #siff2023 and 20000 SPECIES OF BEES won the Official Competition

https://www.siff.net/press-releases/pr-festival-2023-award-winners
November 22, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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Snowed in and need ideas for what to watch? Unwrap @mschulerphoto’s list of her favorite movies of 2022 for inspiration!

https://thesunbreak.com/2022/12/23/morgen-2022-top10/

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November 22, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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As the year winds to a close, we’re wrapping it up and putting a bow on our favorite films of the year. @joshc dives in first with his top 10* list for 2022.

https://thesunbreak.com/2022/12/21/josh-2022-top10/

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November 22, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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For our #Oscars predictions, @EclecticHutch and @joshc tried to guess how the @TheAcademy would vote for their annual film awards. They mostly agreed, but only one can get the most correct predictions.

https://thesunbreak.com/2022/03/25/roundtable-oscar-predictions/
November 22, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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In rounding up his favorite films of 2021, @TonyKayWriter highlights ten movies offered the kind of visual storytelling that richly merited viewing them on a theater screen.

https://thesunbreak.com/2021/12/30/tonys-favorite-films-of-2021/
November 22, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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Listing his favorite films of 2021, @chrisburlingame shares ten movies that provoked responses from him whether it be enjoyment, anger, befuddlement or some combination of those (and others).

https://thesunbreak.com/2021/12/29/chriss-favorite-films-of-2021/
November 22, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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In his Top 10 list, @EclecticHutch celebrates getting to see ambitious, challenging, and moving storytelling on the big screen in 2021.

https://thesunbreak.com/2021/12/28/chases-favorite-films-of-2021/

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November 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Here we go: it’s the season of the list and @joshc highlights films that stood out most in a year when moviegoing at least started to get back to normal.

https://thesunbreak.com/2021/12/28/joshs-favorite-films-of-2021/

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November 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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On a plane — masked, vaccinated, and tested — bound for a charming mountain town while digging into the Telluride lineup … movies are back?
November 23, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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Couldn’t make it to the theater to see ZOLA? One of our favorite movies of the year is doing a one-night-only engagement in the @A24 digital screening room on Wednesday. https://screeningroom.a24films.com/?mc_cid=b14b58bfbd&mc_eid=039663783d
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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Last list of the season: @mschulerphoto shares her favorites of 2020 —> https://thesunbreak.com/2020/12/31/morgens-favorite-movies-of-2020/
November 23, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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One more list for tonight: @TonyKayWriter’s favorite movies of 2020.

https://thesunbreak.com/2020/12/30/tonys-favorite-movies-of-2020/
November 23, 2024 at 5:52 AM