“Those in power, scared of empathy, may wish to tear at the fabric of society — cutting for the sake of discarding, rather than splicing something better together. But we’re here in this room to applaud those who believe, and who instinctively know, that movies not only can reflect the healing power of community, but can help build it, too, with every gathering of souls in a darkened space… hungry to be inspired and transported.”
Thank you to everyone who joined us last night at the Biltmore Hotel to honor our best films of 2025 and the sustaining power of art, criticism, and community.
Swipe to read LA Film Critics President Robert Abele’s 2026 program introduction ✍️ more from our annual celebration to come.
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"The force of Hassona’s personality and Farsi’s filmmaking choices… speak to what’s ineffably beautiful about our human capacity for hope and connection." Sepideh Farsi's PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is now in theaters.
Just announced: our final two LAFCA at the Egyptian events of 2025, celebrating LAFCA’s two most recent winners of its Career Achievement Award!
Monday, November 10
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
+ Philip Kaufman in conversation with LAFCA President Robert Abele
Thursday, December 4
ESCAPE FROM L.A. on 35mm
+ John Carpenter in conversation with LAFCA member @theamynicholson
Get tickets now!
Thank you for the invitation @lafilmcritics Legend John Carpenter- one and only master of horror. Congratulations John for every dream; a nightmare well done 🤩 Was wonderful to see @silverthroat again after so long 🎬🤩 @johncarpenterofficial 🙏🏽
“It’s a single-issue presidential election for a galvanized percentage of Americans who see the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade for the dire healthcare decision it is. In states like Texas, women instantly became less safe and more likely to die, even if they wanted children,” Robert Abele writes in his review of #zurawskivtexas, a documentary executive produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Hillary Clinton.
In the film, “Women denied abortions in Texas despite life-threatening circumstances join forces with a lawyer to file a lawsuit against the state, aiming to restore reproductive rights for themselves and others,” according to the film’s synopsis on IMDB.
“For anyone who needs a gut-punch primer in what the lack of reproductive freedom looks like now,” Abele’s review continues, “the propulsive documentary ‘Zurawski v Texas’ from co-directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault is here to put your voting decisions into sharply delineated, heart-rending focus.”
“When Austinite Amanda Zurawski’s pregnancy turned life-threatening, she was denied abortion care by medical providers scared of legal recriminations from Texas’s unclear, overlapping and threatening antiabortion laws. As a result, she went into septic shock. Surviving with a reduced likelihood of ever becoming pregnant again, she chose last year to sue the state of Texas, spearheading a novel legal challenge that turned her into a flashpoint figure in a post-Roe America just coming to grips with the ramifications of federally unprotected abortion access.”
Read our full review at the link in @latimes_entertainment ’s bio.
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