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Zico Ghosh

TheFederal

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Pyre

Pyre

2026 · TheFederal

Ultimately, Pyre is less concerned with death than with the fear of being left behind, and the indignity of having no one around when it arrives. In its portrait of a world slowly emptying out, the film finds poignancy in the simple, stubborn business of growing old together.

Lust Stories 3

Lust Stories 3

2026 · TheFederal

The ideas are more interesting than their execution. Perhaps that is the fatal flaw of the Lust Stories franchise: it keeps giving us filmmakers worth watching, but not always films that are worth remembering.