Kristian Lin
Film Shorts // March 11-17, 2026
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Dhurandhar (NR) The first of a two-part saga became India’s biggest box-office hit in 2025, and you can see why. Ranveer Singh stars as...
Bride: Mismatched Parts
Good grief, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is a trainwreck. It’s the sort of disaster that only male directors used to be allowed to make:...
Film Shorts // March 4-10, 2026
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Bugonia (R) Emma Stone crushes it yet again in this remake of the Korean movie Save the Green Planet! She portrays a pharmaceutical CEO...
Hoppers: Be the Beaver
With the release of Hoppers, this young year has already seen two animated films that are better sequels to Zootopia than Zootopia 2. The...
Pillion: Harry Melling and the Hot Biker Guy
Well, well. If you’d come up to me during the run of Harry Potter movies and asked me which of the kid actors outside...
Winter Olympics Wrap
Like you, I spent much of mid-February on my couch watching the Winter Olympics, and I think I want to try that deep-fried pizza...
Film Shorts // February 25 – March 3, 2026
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Dreams (NR) Jessica Chastain stars in this drama about a wealthy American socialite having an illicit affair with an undocumented Mexican dancer (Isaac Hernández)....
How to Make a Killing: Bad Relations
I’m about to drop some film history on you, so brace yourself. In 1949, the British director Robert Hamer made a black-comedy masterpiece called...
R.I.P., Frederick Wiseman
This past Monday, the news came from Massachusetts that Frederick Wiseman passed away at the age of 96. Most of the film press was...
I Dream a World
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Black History Month. Had I been reviewing movies back in February 1976, I likely would have marked...
