Kristian Lin
Mission: Impossible: Ethan Out
The eighth movie in the series, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning does leave itself a door cracked open for possible future films. Nevertheless,...
Summer Movie Preview
Let’s skip past the introductory paragraph and dive right in. The horror movie series from the 1980s are in no small part responsible for...
Film Shorts // May 21-27, 2025
OPENING
Ace (NR) VIjay Sethupathi stars in this action-comedy as an Indian criminal who’s caught up in a heist plot in Malaysia. Also with Rukmini...
Old Woman With the Knife: Roach Killer
The Korean thriller The Old Woman With the Knife opens at AMC Grapevine Mills this weekend. That evocative title will sound familiar to those...
Film Shorts // May 14-20, 2025
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Ada: My Mother the Architect (NR) Yael Melamede’s documentary profiles her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
A Breed Apart (R) Grace Caroline Currey...
Adolescence: ‘What Have You Done?’
Sometimes when a cultural phenomenon seems to come out of nowhere, I’m already on top of it. The British crime drama Adolescence quickly became a...
Film Shorts // May 7-13, 2025
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The Ancestral Home (NR) Phuong My Chi stars in this Vietnamese supernatural comedy as a social-media influencer who encounters her late brother’s ghost (Huynh...
Another Simple Favor: Blood-Spattered Bride
Why isn’t Another Simple Favor in theaters? The sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor is good enough to be there, considerably better than a...
Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”
The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a...
Film Shorts // April 30 – May 6, 2025
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Bonjour Tristesse (R) Based on Françoise Sagan’s novel, this movie is about a teenager (Lily McInerny) whose parents’ old friend (Chloë Sevigny) suddenly interrupts...
