Kristian Lin
Kid Detective: The Hardy Man
The Kid Detective is set in a place that’s familiar from other children’s movies, one of those quaint, picturesque small towns where the streets...
Film Shorts
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Alone (R) Bear with us here: This is not the horror movie by the same title that came out five weeks ago, but a...
On the Rocks: Daddy Issues
Like Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker who has come in for criticism for the at-times aggressive whiteness of her characters, even if...
Yellow Rose: Broken Axle
A few years ago, I wrote about the AMC Grapevine Mills starting to show Filipino films. Since then, I’ve been regularly disheartened by the...
Berry Bar
Bar food, am I right? Just an endless parade of the same burgers, nachos, and wings that you’d get at the local Chili’s or...
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Coco (PG) Pixar finds new life in its first musical. This Mexican-set animated film is about a 12-year-old boy (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) who...
Soccer Transfer Roundup
Hi yo, everyone. My biannual soccer transfer piece has been relegated to the blog. In some ways, that’s good because I have more space...
Film Shorts
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A Call to Spy (PG-13) Lydia Dean Pilcher (Radium Girls) directs this drama about the women whom Britain’s espionage service recruits to spy on...
Possessor: Some Bodies
I’m trying to avoid the clichés endemic to film critics when I’m talking about Andrea Riseborough, but it isn’t easy resisting the temptation to...
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Akira (R) A movie set in 2019 but released in 1988, Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s anime classic receives a re-release, with voices by Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu...
