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Kristian Lin

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Love Lies Bleeding: Girls & Guns

Shortly after I reviewed Saint Maud, I heard that its writer-director, Rose Glass, was working on a film with Kristen Stewart. Without knowing anything...

Odds and Ends

With this feature, I can truly put the movies of 2023 to one side (at least until I revisit them in early 2034). Here’s...

Film Shorts // March 13-19, 2024

OPENING   The American Society of Magical Negroes (PG-13) This satire stars Justice Smith as a recently deceased Black man who learns of the existence of...

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

To answer your question, I do think it’s weird that Barbie missed out on the Best Director and Best Actress categories. However, since the...

She Movies

On March 22, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière held a private screening in Paris of a film they made of workers leaving their factory....

Film Shorts // March 6-12, 2024

OPENING   Accidental Texan (PG-13) Mark Lambert Bristol’s comedy is about an itinerant teen (Rudy Pankow) and an old wildcatter (Thomas Haden Church) who hatch a...

The Best Movies of 2013: A Look Back

As Howard Cosell once said, "Let us reflect back nostalgically upon the past." (Thus repeating himself four times in one sentence.) Awards season always...

All of Us Strangers: Only Lovers in the Building

After All of Us Strangers was shut out of the Oscar nominations, I was afraid I would have to relegate it to my annual...

Double Dune

When I reviewed the first Dune movie two and a half years ago, I reported that it left me cold, but I allowed for the possibility...

One Love: Catch a Fire

Biographical films have grown wiser to the trap of presenting their subjects as saints who succeed because they’re touched by the divine. Even some...