Cinema Roundup + Favourite Films: September 2025
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)
Favourite films watched in cinemas this month, and a couple of disappointments.
Favourite New Release:
My no. 1 this month is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and there’s much to say about this and it’s been great to also see so many people discussing this film online.
Other favourites:
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky)
The Long Walk (Francis Lawrence)
Relay (David Mackenzie)
Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino)
Disappointments:
Bad Girl (Varsha Bharath)
Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Kogonada)
Favourites from the Venice Film Festival:
Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi)
Nuestra Tierra (Lucrecia Martel)
Remake (Ross McElwee)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Also liked:
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) - except for the epilogue
At Work (Valérie Donzelli)
Cotton Queen (Suzannah Mirghani)
Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Vant Sant)
Do You Love Me (Lana Daher)
Girl (Shu Qi)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
A Sad and Beautiful World (Cyril Aris)
The Souffleur (Gaston Solnicki)
Strange River (Jaume Claret Muxart)
The Stranger (François Ozon)
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas)
Favourite Rep Screenings:
Aniki-Bóbó (Manoel de Oliveira, 1942)
Two Acres of Land (Bimal Roy, 1953)