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Are you prepared for an action-packed week featuring an array of new movies to stream across various Ott platforms? Dive into a weekend of cinematic delights with our handpicked selection of the hottest movie releases. This list is curated with movie recommendations for those of you who only want to watch the best out of the new movies that pop up on streaming. The list may also come in handy for you to stay updated with current releases on subscription-based Ott platforms and help you pick the best based on your taste and appetite.

The Best New Movies To Stream on Max 1. Goodrich (2024)

Where to Stream: Max | Dir: Hallie Meyers-Shyer

Goodrich, directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, is a heartfelt relationship drama that follows Andy Goodrich (Michael Keaton), a workaholic Los Angeles art dealer whose world is turned upside down when his second wife, Naomi (Laura Benanti), checks herself into rehab. Suddenly,...

People have been debating the veracity of mediums/psychics and their claims to be clairvoyant as well as their abilities to communicate with the dead for eons. Some claim that these individuals are charlatans and thieves just preying on desperate and gullible people looking for some closure, while others swear by the sessions and find some catharsis in the process. In the new A24 documentary streaming on Max called Look Into My Eyes, acclaimed independent filmmaker Lana Wilson goes beyond the binary argument of whether these mediums are real or fake and makes a brilliant movie about something much more profound as it relates to the human condition and the things that unite us as opposed to dividing. She sets out to discover what we have in common, regardless of which side of the table you're sitting on during a psychic reading, and asks the audience to withhold judgment on her subjects' motivations.

A new year means a batch of new movies on your favorite streaming service, and this month brings a mountain of new releases and originals in addition to terrific library additions. Below we’ve put together a curated list of some of the best new movies streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock and beyond this month, from streaming debuts of some of 2024’s best films to starry rom-coms to a good old fashioned Western.

Check out our list of the best new movies streaming in January below.

“Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever” Netflix

Netflix – Jan. 1

The latest must-see Netflix documentary centers around Bryan Johnson, a tech millionaire who is on an eternal quest to turn back the clock. Chris Smith, the filmmaker behind “Wham” and an executive producer of “Tiger King,” directs the new film, which Netflix says, “dives deep into his psyche,...

A pair of filmmakers who we thought struck gold with their Sundance shorts last year (read our top ten short film best of fest piece) in Diffan Sina Norman and Alexandra Qin are among the 11 fellows selected from 3,380 submissions for the upcoming 2025 January Screenwriters Lab. The most established name from the list is Sundance habitual Lana Wilson – who has populated the fest with docus After Tiller, Miss Americana, her two-parter Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields and her narrative debut Look into My Eyes. Her latest project is titled Back Seat.The projects selected for the 2025 January Screenwriters Lab and the artists attending are:

Verano (U.S.A./Mexico):…...

A24 has had a stellar year of releases, although some may have flown under the radar upon their initial release. One such case is Look Into My Eyes, a documentary produced and directed by Lana Wilson that focuses on a group of psychics in New York City. The documentary paints an intimate portrait of these unique individuals and how surprisingly cathartic and therapeutic their psychic readings can be. The film is currently at the #4 spot on Max, a streaming service home to multiple A24 titles.

The documentary first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024, with reviews coming out of the festival calling it tender and entrancing, while also offering a nuanced look into those who claim to be psychics. It currently has a 91% Certified Fresh score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. One consistent highlight throughout reviews is that, rather than attempting to debunk or prove the truth regarding the psychics and their abilities,...

It's challenging to put Matt Damon into a box as an actor. He's starred in everything from romantic comedies to dramas, fantasy epics to biopics. His first major hit was Good Will Hunting in 1997, a movie that won him and cowriter Ben Affleck the Best Original Screenplay Oscar at the Academy Awards. It was in 2002, however, that Damon ascended to a new level of movie stardom, taking on the role of amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity.

Damon reprised his role as Bourne for three sequels, but his work in the action-heavy movies extended beyond this franchise. Damon had action-forward roles in movies like Green Zone (2010), True Grit (2010), Elysium (2013), and The Martian (2016), the latter two of which mix action with science fiction. Though Damon appeared in crime thriller The Instigators last year, his last true foray into pure action was almost 10 years ago now.

Jason Bourne Is A...

Not to be confused with a true-crime docu-series from 2023, the A24 documentary Look Into My Eyes has flown largely under the radar for most movie-goers, despite earning strong ratings and reviews since its release last year. Thankfully, Look Into My Eyes was just made available on Max, so audiences who are looking to experience a profound, emotionally resonant journey through the metaphysical realm should be sure to check it out.

Directed by Lana Wilson and released in January 2024, Look Into My Eyes weaves a story of grief and humanity through the perspective of New York City psychics. The film was inspired by Wilson's own encounter with psychic readings, which took place the day after Donald Trump's first victory in the presidential elections, back in 2016. "I had a very depressing, horrifying night, like a lot of people did," Wilson recounted. She admitted that she'd never before taken psychics very seriously,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

2073 (Asif Kapadia)

Asif Kapadia––the biographical documentary wiz behind contemporary classics like Senna and Amy––opens his semi-fictional film 2073 in a flurry of doc footage. Wildfires, floods, and other such natural disasters set the tone while disturbing clips of cops bashing skulls and riot police brutalizing innocent people cement it for the next 85 minutes. Then comes the fiction: it’s been 37 years since “The Event,” and we’re in the future: the year 2073. – Luke H. (full review)

Where to Stream: VOD

Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito)

In the middle of Black Box Diaries, journalist Shiori Ito’s debut documentary, Ito grins at the camera as she strolls through downtown Tokyo on the day of her book launch. It’s October 18, 2017. The...

There are certain moments in Look into My Eyes where you cannot help but weep like a baby as your soul is completely crushed. Some other times, you find your chest heavy but also a smile on your face; those are the bittersweet ones. But then, you also drift away, and conversations don’t quite register in your head as you find them boring. That’s not necessarily a problem, because the entirety of Lana Wilson’s documentary is a series of conversations, coming one after another. It’s only normal for the viewers to get drawn in by some of them, while others might not appeal as much. I obviously had to replay the ones I didn’t quite get into for this assignment, which kind of ruined my viewing experience. However, that shouldn’t be your concern. In this article, we’re going to discuss Look into My Eyes...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch column, our monthly breakdown of What’s on Streaming, and our master list of Every New TV Show Premiering in 2025.

With over 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Taylor Dearden, Patrick Marron Ball, and Noah Wyle in ‘The Pitt’ (Photograph by Max/Warrick Page)

Max is kicking off the new year with the series premiere of The Pitt, a medical drama that puts ER star Noah Wyle back in scrubs and playing the chief attendant in Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency room. Max’s January 2025 lineup also includes the season five premiere of the critically acclaimed, comic book-inspired animated series Harley Quinn, and the series debut of Isadora Moon, based on the bestselling book series.

Season 23 of Real Time with Bill Maher and the premieres of A24’s The Front Room, Look Into My Eyes, and A Different Man stream on Max in January.

Max January 2025 Lineup

January 1

5 Things with Kate Bolduan (CNN)

A Star is Born (1937)

Act of Valor (2012)

All Elite Wrestling: 2019 PPV Events (5 Episodes) (2024)

All Elite Wrestling: Collision 2024 (5 Episodes), Season 2

All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite 2019 (12 Episodes...

Say goodbye to the old and hello to the new! This January, you can stream The Pitt, Harley Quinn, Fast Friends, and more on Max. Here’s the full list of all the movies and TV shows coming to Max in January 2025:

Originals & featured: January 2: Isadora Moon (Max Original Series)

Based on the globally best-selling beloved book series by Harriet Muncaster, Isadora Moon follows the delightful adventures of a half-vampire, half-fairy girl, her friends at human school, and her wider magical family.

January 3: The Front Room (A24 Film)

Everything goes to hell for newly pregnant Belinda (Brandy) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere…

January 9: The Pitt (Max Original Drama Series)

The Pitt is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as...

Out with the old, in with the new. Stream The Pitt, Harley Quinn, Fast Friends, and more on Max this January. Here’s the list of every movie and TV show coming to Max in January 2025:

Originals & featured: January 2: Isadora Moon (Max Original Series)

Based on the globally best-selling beloved book series by Harriet Muncaster, Isadora Moon follows the delightful adventures of a half-vampire, half-fairy girl, her friends at human school, and her wider magical family.

January 3: The Front Room (A24 Film)

Everything goes to hell for newly pregnant Belinda (Brandy) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere…

January 9: The Pitt (Max Original Drama Series)

The Pitt is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the...

Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the movies, TV shows and live sports that will be available on the Max streaming service in January. The Max January 2025 lineup includes All Elite Wrestling (Aew) and Max Originals Harley Quinn Season 5, Isadora Moon, Mermicorno: Starfall, The Pitt, and the documentary Sons of Ecstasy.

The schedule includes HBO’s C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart, the documentary series An Update on Our Family, Real Time with Bill Maher Season 23, the comedy special Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?, and A24’s The Front Room, Look Into My Eyes, and A Different Man.

You can also tune into Max’s Workplace Watchlist, which highlights series, movies, and reality inspired by the premiere of the Max Original series The Pitt.

The Pitt Featured Programming

Isadora Moon (Max Original Series)

The 12-episode series debuts on January 2.

Based on the globally best-selling beloved book series by Harriet Muncaster,...

On Thursday, Max announced arrival dates for three recent A24 releases: horror comedy “The Front Room,” documentary “Look Into My Eyes,” and psychological thriller “A Different Man.”

Brandy Norwood stars in the scatological horror comedy “The Front Room” as Belinda, a pregnant woman whose life starts to fall apart when her husband’s racist, religious fanatic stepmother Solange (Kathryn Hunter) moves in with them and begins to psychologically torture her. Is Solange possessed by an evil spirit, or is she just a bad person? Find out when “The Front Room” premieres on Max on Jan. 3. The film hails from Max and Sam Eggers, brothers of acclaimed horror filmmaker Robert Eggers.

“Look Into My Eyes” is an intimate documentary about professional psychics in New York City as they do readings for people who are looking for guidance in their lives as they deal with loneliness, disconnection, and grief. It’s directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Lana Wilson,...

On Wednesday, the National Board of Review announced its winners for the 2024 calendar year, and it’s great news for “Wicked.” The blockbuster film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical won Best Film and Best Director for Jon M. Chu, plus the Spotlight Award for the Creative Collaboration between stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. (See the full list of winners below.) All of the NBR champions will receive their trophies at a New York City gala event on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, with Willie Geist serving as host.

This year’s lead acting trophies went to Daniel Craig (“Queer”) for Best Actor and Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”) for Best Actress, while the supporting honors went to Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”) for Best Supporting Actor and Elle Fanning (“A Complete Unknown”) for Best Supporting Actress.

Other NBR award winners include “Conclave” for Best Ensemble, Mikey Madison (“Anora”) for Breakthrough Performance, India Donaldson...

The National Board of Review just announced the winners of the 2024 NBR Awards with Wicked winning some of the top awards.

Wicked won both Best Film and Best Director for Jon M. Chu, as well as the NBR Spotlight Award for the “creative collaboration” of stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

“Wicked represents the pure magic that movies can bring to audiences. Every detail is beautifully crafted and designed, the actors are all exceptional and the music is second-to-none – together it adds up to a transporting experience like no other. The NBR is proud to honor director Jon M. Chu and his remarkable cinematic vision,” said NBR President Annie Schulhof.

The awards gala will be held on January 7, 2025 in New York City.

Head inside to check out the full list of winners…

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Best Film: Wicked

Best Director: Jon M. Chu, Wicked

Best Actor: Daniel Craig,...

The National Board of Review has named Wicked as its best film of 2024.

The movie adaptation of the Broadway musical, which has been a critical and commercial hit and hopes to be an Oscars contender, also picked up two other honors from the group. The NBR’s honors are voted on by a group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics and students.

Wicked‘s Jon M. Chu was named best director by NBR and its stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande received a special spotlight award for their “creative collaboration.”

“Wicked represents the pure magic that movies can bring to audiences,” NBR president Annie Schulhof said in a statement. “Every detail is beautifully crafted and designed, the actors are all exceptional and the music is second-to-none — together it adds up to a transporting experience like no other. The NBR is proud to honor director Jon M. Chu and his remarkable cinematic vision.

Universal’s feature take of the Broadway musical, Wicked, wasn’t only named Best Film of 2024 by the National Board of Review, but the movie was also named Best Director for Jon M. Chu, while its stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are receiving an NBR Spotlight Award for their creative collaboration.

A24 after coming up big earlier this morning at the Independent Spirit Awards with noms for I Saw the TV Glow and Sing Sing, saw wins here with NBR for Babygirl, Nicole Kidman winning Best Actress; and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer winning Best Actor for Daniel Craig.

Winners will be honored at the NBR’s annual awards gala Jan. 7 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. The ceremony will be hosted by MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist. The group’s awards celebrate excellence in filmmaking and also hand out its signature honors for the NBR Icon Award,...

The blockbuster Broadway adaptation “Wicked” scored the prizes for best film from the National Board of Review, the organization announced on Wednesday. “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu also scooped the best director award and the movie’s stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande will be presented with the NBR Spotlight Award.

In the acting categories, Nicole Kidman won best actress for her bold performance as a New York CEO in “Babygirl” and Elle Fanning took best supporting actress for “A Complete Unknown,” where she plays bohemian artist Sylvie Russo. Both films will open in theaters on Christmas day.

Daniel Craig won best actor for his impassioned role in Luca Guadagnino’s 1950s-set “Queer” and Kieran Culkin, a winner yesterday at the New York Film Critics Circle, scored again here for his performance in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain.”

The prize for best international film went to Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof...

The National Board of Review has unveiled its 2024 awards winners list. The announcement comes amid the churn of a busy awards week — the New York Film Critics Circle shared their picks on Tuesday, while the Film Independent Spirit Awards rolled out its nominees Wednesday. The AFI Awards list of the 10 best films of the year also unveils Thursday. The Gotham Awards, meanwhile, took place Monday in New York, crowning “A Different Man” the best independent feature of the year.

The National Board of Review awards gala will take place on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 in New York. The splashy musical “Wicked” was the big winner, taking prizes for Best Film and Best Director for Jon M. Chu. On the acting side, Daniel Craig (“Queer”), Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), and Elle Fanning (“A Complete Unknown”) took acting honors. The event will be hosted by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-anchor Willie Geist.

Universal Pictures’ blockbuster musical “Wicked” has been named best picture by the National Board of Review, the organization announced on Wednesday, in addition to taking home the directing prize for Jon M. Chu and a special award for the collaboration of stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

Over the last 40 years, most of the winners of NBR’s best film has gone on to receive an Oscar nomination for best picture, with the exception of films like 1998’s “Gods and Monsters,” 2000’s “Quills” and 2014’s “A Most Violent Year.” In the 1980s, there were technically two misses with 1987’s “Empire of the Sun” and 1983’s “Betrayal,” the latter of which won in a tie with “Terms of Endearment.” So far this decade, Spike Lee’s war drama “Da 5 Bloods” (2020) is the only film to fail to achieve Oscar recognition. Notably, since the Academy expanded the best picture lineup from...

Whether it's because of the strikes last summer or simply the rapidly evolving nature of the industry, this year's Oscar race is shaping up to be one of the most unpredictable in recent memory. The Gotham Awards provided a shock Monday night as A24's bafflingly un-campaigned A Different Man...

The Academy has unveiled the list of feature films that are eligible for consideration in the animated feature, documentary feature Film, and international feature at the 2025 Oscars.

In animation, 31 films will vie for one of the five spots, including “The Wild Robot,” “Inside Out 2,” “Memoir of a Snail,” “Flow,” and “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.”

In documentary feature, 169 films are eligible. Among them are “No Other Land,” “Daughters,” “Martha,” “I Am: Celine Dion,” and “Dahomey,” which is Senegal’s submission for international feature.

In international feature, there are 85 hopefuls, including frontrunner “Emilia Pérez” (France), “I’m Still Here” (Brazil), “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Germany), “Kneecap” (Ireland), and “Flight 404” (Egypt).

The shortlists of 15 films for documentary and international features will be released on Tuesday, Dec. 17.

Oscar nominations will be announced on Friday, Jan. 17. The 97th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will be held on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on the films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature categories for the 97th Academy Awards next year.

The list includes 31 toon features, 169 docs and international pics from 85 countries. Preliminary voting for the 97th Oscars runs December 9-13, and all three shortlists will be revealed December 17. The Oscars will be handed out Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

Here are the animated, documentary and international features eligible for the 2024 Oscars:

Best Animated Feature

Art College 1994

Captain Avispa

Chicken for Linda!

The Colors Within

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

Despicable Me 4

Flow

The Garfield Movie

Ghost Cat Anzu

The Glassworker

The Imaginary

Inside Out 2

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Kung Fu Panda 4

Living Large

Look Back

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Mars Express

Memoir of a Snail...

A total of 31 animated features, 169 documentary features and 85 international features are eligible for Oscar nominations this season, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed on Thursday.

In the animated feature category, high-profile studio films like Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Universal/DreamWorks’s The Wild Robot and acclaimed indies like Memoir of a Snail are joined in the running by longer shots like The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, a film jettisoned by Warner Bros. that wound up with the distributor Ketchup Entertainment.

The documentary feature race, meanwhile, includes titles that have dominated at the doc community’s precursor awards, including Nat Geo’s Sugarcane, Netflix’s Daughters and MTV’s Black Box Diaries; two that count Malala Yousafzai as an executive producer, Apple’s Bread & Roses and The Last of the Sea Women, and two that count Jennifer Lawrence as an EP,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Allen Sunshine (Harley Chamandy)

Directed with a sense of tranquil serenity and grounded maturity one might be accustomed to finding in the work of a seasoned director, Allen Sunshine is, quite remarkably, the debut feature of 25-year-old Harley Chamandy. The Montreal-born, New York-based filmmaker received the 2024 Werner Herzog Film Prize for his feature following its Munich Film Festival premiere earlier this year. Having participated in Herzog’s workshop as a 17-year-old, Chamandy’s shared affinity with the legendary German director for the natural world is quite apparent. Shot on 16mm by Kenny Suleimanagich, who brings a painterly touch in capturing the woodland landscape, Allen Sunshine is an affecting, understated look at picking up a life destroyed, and finding a connection with...

National Geographic’s “Sugarcane,” a film about abuse and missing children at an Indigenous boarding school in Canada, leads this year’s nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Cinema Eye recognizes excellence in the artistry and craft of nonfiction filmmaking. “Sugarcane” will face off against “Black Box Diaries,” “Dahomey,” “Daughters,” “Look Into My Eyes,” “No Other Land,” and “Soundtrack to Coup d’Etat” for Best Feature. See the full list of nominees below.

In 2023, four of the five eventual Academy Award nominated Documentary Feature films were nominated by Ceh earlier in the season, including the Oscar winner “20 Days in Mariupol.” Last year’s Ceh winner “32 Sounds” failed to earn a nomination from the Academy. The last two films to win the Oscar without first being recognized with a nomination by Ceh were “My Octopus Teacher” in 2020 and “Free Solo” in 2018.

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Sugarcane, the story of sexual abuse and disappearances at a school for Indigenous children in British Columbia, leads the nominations for the prestigious documentary-focused Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Four films are next with five noms each: Dahomey, Eno, Frida and No Other Land. See the full list below.

Sugarcane, Dahomey and No Other Land will vie for the marquee Nonfiction Feature prize along with Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Look Into My Eyes and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. This is the first year that the named nominees in the Nonfiction Feature category will include the entire creative team: directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, sound designers, visual designers and significant on-screen participants.

The producers of Sugarcane, No Other Land, Hollywoodgate, Mistress Dispeller, Porcelain War and Union are up for the Production prize. The Cinema Eye winner in that category has gone on to take the Documentary Feature Academy...

Sugarcane, the Nat Geo documentary feature about abuse and forced separations in a Canadian Indigenous community, landed a field-leading six nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors, the organization, which celebrates nonfiction work made for big and small screens, announced on Thursday.

Among the noms for Sugarcane is one for best nonfiction feature, a category in which it will compete alongside Mubi’s Dahomey and the U.S.-distributor-less No Other Land, which both garnered five noms, and MTV Docs’ Black Box Diaries, Netflix’s Daughters, A24’s Look Into My Eyes and Kino Lorber’s Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.

This is the first year in which the nominees for best nonfiction feature will include the entire creative team behind each doc — the directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, sound designers, visual designers and significant on-screen participants.

The audience choice award, nominees for which were determined by more than 30,000 votes from nonfiction lovers around the world,...

The Canadian film “Sugarcane” continued its impressive awards-season streak on Thursday, leading all films in nominations for the 18th annual Cinema Eye Honors.

The film from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, which looks into cases of abuse and forced separation in an Indigenous community, received six nominations, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” and Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor’s “No Other Land” received five nominations.

“Sugarcane” is now the only film of 2024 to be nominated in the top nonfiction category at the Cinema Eye Honors, Critics Choice Documentary Awards and Gotham Awards, and also to be included on the International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards long list and Doc NYC’s short list of likely awards contenders.

Nominees in the Outstanding Nonfiction Feature category were “Sugarcane,” “Dahomey,” “No Other Land,” “Black Box Diaries,” “Daughters,” “Look Into My Eyes” and “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.

The Cinema Eye Honors, an Oscar bellwether that often predicts the Best Documentary Feature race, has unveiled its 2025 nominations.

Leading the pack is “Sugarcane,” Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s documentary about abuse in an Indian residential school in Canada. The film earned rave reviews out of Sundance, and here earned six nominations. It’s followed by two hits from the 2024 Berlin Film Festival: “Dahomey,” Mati Diop’s exploration of the artifacts of colonial Africa, and Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor’s Israel-Palestine conflict documentary “No Other Land,” which each received five nominations. Two portraits of major 20th-century artists, Carla Gutiérrez’s “Frida” and Gary Hustwit’s “Eno,” also received five nominations a piece.

The 18th annual Cinema Eye Honors will take place on Thursday, January 9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem. Keep reading for a complete list of nominees.

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Predicting the winner of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar becomes a lot easier on December 17 when the academy announces the 15 films that make the shortlist. Those semi-finalists will be culled from the more than 100 titles that qualified this year for consideration. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Documentary Feature.)

To winnow those down to a manageable number, the academy adds newly eligible documentary feature to a virtual screening room available to all 500-plus members of the documentary branch. While all members are encouraged to watch as many of these as they can, one-fifth of the voters are assigned each title. Each branch member will submit a preferential ballot listing their top 15 choices.

All of these ballots are collated to determine the 15 semi-finalists. Branch members are then encouraged to watch films on that list which they haven’t seen yet before casting another preferential ballot with their top five choices.

Look Into My Eyes is a new documentary that takes a neutral look at a much-maligned profession in New York

A woman seeks to learn information about her birth parents in China – are they alive? Do they ever think about her? A man wants to confirm that his former pet bearded dragon, which he gave up for adoption, is Ok. Another woman, a doctor, has thought for decades about a 10-year-old girl she tried to save on one of her first days of residency, the victim of a drive-by shooting – “how is she?” A young man hopes for guidance in this messy, confusing, exhausting business of being alive.

These are a few of the clients – some hopeful, some skeptical, all yearning for something – who consult psychics in plaintive, open-hearted fashion in Look Into My Eyes, documentarian Lana Wilson’s remarkable new film on a group of mediums in New York.

On election night 2016, director Lana Wilson had been shooting all night on the Atlantic City boardwalk, capturing images of President-elect Donald Trump’s bankrupted casinos.

“I was heartbroken, frightened, depressed, and I was waiting for my ride back to New York when I saw a sign in the distance that said ‘$5 Psychic Readings,’” said Wilson while on IndieWire’s Toolkit podcast to discuss her new A24 documentary “Look Into My Eyes.”

Without giving it too much thought, Wilson, who had never been to a psychic, walked in, pulled back a curtain, and found two empty chairs.

“No one was there, but I took a seat, and as soon as I sat down, I had the sensation of a flash of sudden clarity. I had the feeling of looking in a mirror at my own internal state at that moment, and all of the vulnerability I brought into that room, and I felt really emotional,...

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Lana Wilson explores the relationships between New York City psychics and their clients in a compelling character study about the desperate need for human understanding. Look Into My Eyes takes a compassionate and nonjudgmental stance on a profession widely derided as exploitative. Cynics, including this reviewer, need to view this film dispassionately with an open mind. Wilson isn't trying to sway disbelievers or catch charlatans in action. There are times when the clairvoyants, who've also suffered significant personal trauma, miss the mark completely, but their profound healing effect on the psychologically wounded cannot be ignored.

No Frills in This Intimate Look at Psychics and Believers

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A group of New York City psychics conducts deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection and healing.

Release Date September 6, 2024Director Lana WilsonRuntime 1h 44mWriters Lana WilsonStudio A24, Artemis Rising Foundation,...

Have you ever wondered about the work of psychics? What really happens behind closed doors in those storefront mystical shops? The new documentary Look Into My Eyes provides an intimate look at the lives of several New York City psychics, exploring both their practices and personal journeys. Filmed by skilled nonfiction director Lana Wilson, it had its world premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Wilson gains rare access to follow seven diverse psychic practitioners. Their specialties vary from healing ancestral trauma to impromptu party readings to communicating with deceased pets. But Wilson resists quick judgment, observing each subject’s methods up close with empathy. She also gently probes their backgrounds to add understanding. Deeper portraits emerge of people finding purpose in their gifts while grappling with private pains.

A balanced perspective is provided on the believability of psychic ability itself. But perhaps what matters most is...

Documentarian Lana Wilson is known for taking unconventional, humanistic approaches to her subjects, and her latest effort, Look Into My Eyes, is no different. Although the film’s purposefully restrained filmmaking approach and somewhat repetitive nature could be off-putting to impatient viewers, there is certainly merit in its frank, emotional discussion of topics like grief and spirituality that makes it worth attention.

Look Into My Eyes Review

Look Into My Eyes follows a group of psychics in New York City as they conduct a series of intimate sessions with their clients. It’s a fascinating subject that is not often discussed in media — especially in a way that is as vulnerable and emotional as this — with the noble intent of bringing humanity to something that is frequently dehumanized.

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One of the most interesting things about Look Into My Eyes...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on September 5th, reviewing the new documentary “Look Into My Eyes.” It has a limited release on September 6th, with a wider rollout throughout the month. See local listings.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

The film is a straight ahead talking heads doc about that phenomenon and the people who get into the profession. Talking to and profiling seven self proclaimed psychics – Per Erik Borja, Eugene Grygo, Nikenya Hall, Phoebe Hoffman, Michael Kim, Sherrie Lynne and Iika Pinheiro – the films delves into the why’s of how people get to the advocation, the sensitivities involved and the clients whose paths had led them to seek such a service, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and yes, healing.

”Look Into My Eyes” is in limited theaters beginning September 6th, and will rollout throughout the month. See local listings Featuring profiles of Per Erik Borja,...

Psychic tradition has been part of history for thousands of years, yet the process can still feel mysterious to many. Documentarian Lana Wilson, who previously captured portraits of Taylor Swift and Brooke Shields, found herself curious about the field during the pandemic while living in NYC.

So, with her film crew, she set out to capture psychics working in the city and the result is the fascinating Look Into My Eyes, a Sundance-premiering documentary that touches on the eccentric lives of those who dedicate their lives, amongst other artistic pursuits, to connecting with the souls of many that come to them to seek solace and resolution.

Ahead of the film’s theatrical release from A24, I spoke with Lana Wilson about her approach to the film and working with the psychics, psychic readings versus therapy, obsessions with art, putting on a performance, the loneliness (and connection) in NYC, and much more.

Look Into My Eyes doesn’t set out to prove or disprove the possibility of clairvoyance, although some of the readings filmed might cause a particularly lenient skeptic to second guess. Director Lana Wilson’s documentary about psychics in New York City is a simple film: it interviews and follows a group of psychics,...

If you’ve already dived into our massive fall movie preview, then you have a strong sense of what to have on your radar over the next four months. Now let’s examine September a little closer, already including a few new additions since our fall preview went up. Of course, from Venice to TIFF to NYFF, much of the month will be dedicated to our festival coverage, which you can follow here.

12. The Featherweight (Robert Kolodny; Sept. 20)

With the never-ending glut of biopics, particularly those centered in the world of sports, it can often feel like there’s not much new territory to cover. While Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw recently showed how a singular vision can elevate the genre, another film taking place partially inside the ring breathes new life. Robert Kolodny, who worked on the cinematography team of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Procession,...

Exclusive: Jayne Sullivan has been hired as a literary manager at Cinetic Media, the esteemed management and media advisory company founded and overseen by John Sloss.

New to management, Sullivan comes from a producing background, having previously worked alongside Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Paul Giamatti while under a deal at Showtime, and Brigham Taylor while under a deal at Disney. She’ll be based out of Cinetic’s New York office and will focus on growing a roster of exceptional writer, director, and multi-hyphenate clients.

Observed Kate Hurwitz and Alec Ring, Co-Heads of Cinetic Management, “Jayne was doing all the things a great manager does well before it was her official title. She has incredible taste, a strong work ethic, and her experience across the indie and studio landscape equips her to excel with artists at all stages of their careers. We are thrilled to have her join our team.”

Added Sullivan,...

Summer’s over. Looks like it’s time to get back to work. And by work, we mean some serious movie watching. Luckily September doesn’t disappoint. We have everything from the highly-anticipated Megaopolis, the self-funded opus from Francis Ford Coppola, to the star-studded Netflix affair His Three Daughters, to the return of the king of tight, gnarly thrillers, Jeremy Saulnier, with his new one, Rebel Ridge. Oh, and a doc about psychics from a Fast-Track alum, with Lana Wilson’s Look Into My Eyes. Looks like the fall is shaping up to be quite the movie season. Now get out there and start watching!

A Different Man

When You Can Watch: September 20

Where You Can Watch: Theaters (Limited)

Director: Aaron Schimberg

Cast: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson

Why We’re Excited: Yet another selection in this month’s Film Independent Presents series, writer-director Schimberg’s latest offering is...

Not many documentaries have to account for an audience that will assume the subject matter is bullshit. But filmmaker Lana Wilson was primed to take on that challenge when she chose to begin capturing the emotionally charged alchemy of psychics practicing in New York City. After all, she was an admitted skeptic herself. Even so, she found herself in the office of a psychic seeking answers in the wake of the 2016 election.

“I couldn’t believe I was walking in there. I was never a religious person,” Wilson shares over Zoom. “Yet this day, I found myself going to a psychic for comfort — and I did feel comforted. And I thought, ‘What does it mean that I just felt better after I talked to this stranger for five minutes?’”

That question grew in Wilson’s mind for several years while she made behind-the-curtain documentaries about Taylor Swift and Brooke Shields.

Now that we’re into September – hopefully, you’ve read our preview from last week – many are hoping the box office can sustain its summer business. This week’s offering, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” surely will help. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

Back in 1988, director Tim Burton teamed with Michael Keaton for the comedy “Beetlejuice,” which was Burton’s second feature film as a director. The movie became a relatively big hit, made on a fairly small budget, putting Burton and Keaton into a place where they could tackle “Batman” the following year.

The original “Beetlejuice” starred Alec Baldwin in a year in which he became a bigger star, along with Geena Davis, who was also starting a burgeoning career. Catherine O’Hara had already been doing the Canadian sketch comedy show “Sctv” for many years and taking on smaller film roles before being cast in that film, but more importantly,...

Though the summer box office season is coming to a close, audiences are still looking forward to heading to the theater to watch some highly anticipated films. Cinema has been a significant form of entertainment for decades, constantly reinventing itself with films like Night of the Living Dead, which served as a seminal moment for the horror genre, Die Hard, an action film that is still being talked about after three decades, and The Lord of the Rings, which provided an experience of a lifetime in the early 2000s.

As films have become more reliant on CGI, we see various concepts in films that would've once been seen as impossible. Indeed, movies created with such care are best appreciated on the big screen. That said, 2024 has been enjoyable so far, with films like Deadpool & Wolverine, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and Dune: Part Two being box office hits.

On Election Night 2016, Lana Wilson fell into despair while on a filming assignment at a Trump property in New Jersey. As part of her search for meaning, she gravitated toward a storefront medium to calm her sense of dread. Two election cycles later, the same outcome looms as a possibility once again. But in the intervening eight years, Wilson has unpacked her initial impulse to seek solace from strangers in troubled times and reflected upon the power of the psychic reading in the documentary Look Into My Eyes.

Wilson’s film quickly moves beyond evaluating the correctness of her subjects’ clairvoyance. She instead narrows her focus on the connection that occurs during a reading between the psychics and their clients. More than people looking for answers, she finds individuals seeking connection through speaking and listening. Look Into My Eyes does expand its purview to cover more than just the sessions,...

Dialogue between psychics and their subjects, the core dynamic of Lana Wilson’s documentary Look Into My Eyes, is heard before it’s seen in the opening scene. This choice serves as the first of many indications that Wilson’s interest doesn’t lie solely in a reality (or lack thereof) that’s capable of being established through sight alone. Rather, it’s the act of questioning—and the unexpected connections that form in the process—that moves this portrait of New York City’s mediums beyond a mere interrogation of their veracity.

Wilson begins the documentary proper with a series of tableaus in isolated portraiture to establish the client side of the conversation. These soul-searchers all need resolution to quell lingering doubts and demons within relationships where traditional means of interpersonal communication are no longer possible. More than a truthful answer, they seek an elusive sense of internal peace.

With the rise of alternative spiritual documentaries this year, including Lana Wilson’s buzzy “Look Into My Eyes” about psychics, it’s only fitting that an early festival favorite also centers on mysticism.

Documentary “Wishing On A Star,” which will premiere at Venice and also screen at TIFF, follows an Italian astrologer who encourages people to be “reborn.” The docu-drama is directed by Peter Kerekes, who co-wrote the film with Erica Barbiani.

The official synopsis reads: “Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky. Whether it’s Taipei, Beirut, or a nearby village, during these birthday journeys, the protagonists will go through unexpected transformations to help them discover what they truly desire.”

The feature is billed as a blend of documentary with storytelling elements.