Kristian Lin
The Most Overlooked Movies of All Time*
* according to me and 838 other film critics
Right, so here’s how it all went down. In 2022, Sight & Sound magazine ran its...
Boy Kills World: Don’t Speak
It’s not often that a fictional character sums up the premise of his movie better than I could, but that’s what happens in Boy...
Film Shorts // April 24-30, 2024
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Babylicious (NR) This Pakistani romantic comedy stars Shehroz Sabzwari as a man who moves heaven and earth to disrupt the wedding of the woman...
Sasquatch Sunset: The Last of Us
I don’t know if Sasquatch Sunset will wind up being the strangest movie I see in 2024, but it will definitely be a big...
Civil War: Shooting Conflict
This past week we saw Civil War, a movie about a second American civil war taking place in the near present. We are four...
Film Shorts // April 17-23, 2023
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Abigail (R) The latest horror-comedy by Radio Silence (Ready or Not) is about a group of criminals who kidnap a little girl (Alisha Weir)...
Sting: Along Came a Spider
Like many people, I have seen the superbly funny YouTube clip where film director Kevin Smith describes his experiences working on an aborted Superman...
Film Shorts // April 10-16, 2024
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Aavesham (NR) This Indian action-comedy is about three new students in Bangalore who enlist a mobster (Fahadh Faasil) to help them get back at...
Femme Plot
Just a few weeks ago in this space, I was wondering where all the violent, unstable thrillers about gay men were. Right now, one...
Do You Know the Monkey Man?
You’ve probably heard that Monkey Man is Dev Patel’s directing debut and that it’s an action thriller that kicks all kinds of ass in...
