Lily and Generoso spent an epic amount of 2025 in front of a screen, and here they review their ten favorite features, seven supplemental films, and one outstanding repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals throughout the year.

Lily and Generoso review Dracula, director Radu Jude’s second feature of 2025, a delightfully controlled explosion of tales connected to everyone’s favorite parasitic impaler.

For the eleventh straight year, Lily and Generoso absorbed all that is AFI Fest 2025, the American Film Institute’s five-day festival, and they’re back to review their eight favorite features from the large slate of films they viewed this time around!

With just a few days before his appearance at AFI Fest 2025, Lily and Generoso interview director, editor, and co-founder of the El Pampero Cine collective, Alejo Moguillansky, to discuss his virtuosic new feature, Pin de Fartie, which draws inspiration from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.

With her most ambitious feature to date, director Sofia Bohdanowicz continues her examination of history and memory through the character of Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) as she researches the legacy of acclaimed early 20th-century Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.

Alexander Horwath’s stunning debut is a 185-minute video essay that examines the course of American social and political attitudes over multiple eras through the biography of the legendary actor, Henry Fonda.

World premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival is A Bright Future (Un Futuro Brillante), the second feature from Sundance Award–Winning Director Lucía Garibaldi. Lily and Generoso review this bold dystopian tale.

Lily and Generoso wrap an outstanding year at the cinema, with capsule reviews of ten favorite films, eight supplemental features, and one outstanding repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals in 2024.

For the tenth straight year, Lily and Generoso proudly present their coverage of AFI Fest, Los Angeles’s premiere film festival which took place in Hollywood this October.

Featured photo courtesy of AFI Fest.

Five years have passed since the release of the The Tree House, the remarkable hybrid documentary film by director Trương Minh Quý. Việt and Nam is Trương’s first fiction feature, and with about a week before it screens at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Lily and Generoso had an in-depth discussion with Trương about his ethereal and complex film.

Lily and Generoso review director Kazik Radwanski’s poignant comedic drama Matt and Mara, which explores the emotionally nuanced relationship between two longtime friends.

Lily and Generoso review director Gürcan Keltek’s mesmerizing supernatural drama, New Dawn Fades, winner of the Best Feature Boccalino D’Oro Award of the 24th Independent Film Critics Awards of the 2024 Locarno International Film Festival.

With Last Summer, the 2019 Danish family drama Queen of Hearts is transformed by the unique style of auteur filmmaker Catherine Breillat, marking her first feature film in ten years. Lily and Generoso review Breillat’s intricately nuanced adaptation about a relationship between a stepmother and stepson.

With only a week to go before powerful new feature Louis Riel or Heaven Touches The Earth premieres in the Main Slate at UNAM International Film Festival, Lily and Generoso sat down for an in-depth conversation with the film’s director, Matías Meyer.

Lily and Generoso spoke at length with writer/director Phạm Thiên Ân, whose stunning and pensive feature, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, garnered the Camera d’Or at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.

For Lily and Generoso, 2023 was a fantastic year at the cinema! They select and review their ten favorite films, six supplemental features, and one extraordinary repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals.

During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.

Since 2015, Lily and Generoso have reviewed the offerings from the American Film Institute’s annual festival. With AFI Fest 2023 in the books, they are here to present their top ten favorite features from this year’s impressive slate of 140 films!

During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso spoke at length with director Radu Jude about his darkly comedic feature, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, the winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Locarno Film Festival and Romania’s entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards.

Director Pietro Marcello follows up his heralded adaptation of Jack London’s Martin Eden with Scarlet, a bold reimagining of Aleksandr Grin’s classic 1923 novel, Scarlet Sails. Lily and Generoso review Marcello’s exceptional contemporary take on this beloved fairy tale.