Featuring Six Films Nominated for "Best Picture"
at the 97th Academy Awards

2025 FEATURED FILMS:

ANORA

A young escort from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch.

Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Directed by: Sean Baker || Distributed by: Neon Rated LLC || Rated 93% on Rotten Tomatoes || 7.8/10 on IMDb

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THE SUBSTANCE

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

Directed by: Coralie Fargeat || Distributed by: Variance Films || Rated 89% on Rotten Tomatoes || 7.3/10 on IMDb

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THE BRUTALIST

When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern United States,

their lives are changed forever by a mysterious, wealthy client.

Directed by: Brady Corbet || Distributed by: A24|| Rated 93% on Rotten Tomatoes || 8.0/10 on IMDb

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EMILIA PEREZ

Emilia Pérez, based on Audiard’s opera libretto of the same name, follows a Mexican cartel leader who enlists a lawyer

to help her fake her death in order to retire and transition into a woman.

Director: Jacques Audiard || Distributed by: Netflix || Rated 74% on Rotten Tomatoes || 5.8/10 on IMDb

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I’M STILL HERE

A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.

Director: Walter Salles || Distributed by: Sony Classics || Rated 96% on Rotten Tomatoes || 8.8/10 on IMDb

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NICKEL BOYS

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “Nickel Boys” chronicles the powerful friendship between

two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Director: RaMell Ross || Distributed by: MGM || Rated 90% on Rotten Tomatoes || 7.6/10 on IMDb

Full Schedule

Catch the 97th Academy Awards Live at 7:00PM EDT on March 2nd, 2025!