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Film Shorts // March 6-12, 2024
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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...
Film Shorts // February 28 – March 5, 2024
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Baltimore (NR) Also entitled Rose’s War, this biographical drama stars Imogen Poots as a wealthy 20th-century American socialite who rejects her upbringing and joins...
Stopmotion: The Ash Man Cometh
Filmmakers can be an obsessive bunch. Perhaps you know this already. The job gives them so many details to worry over that can make...
Drive-Away Dolls: Severance
Almost since there have been lesbians in movies, there have been crime thrillers to put them in. Drive-Away Dolls is just the latest of...
Argylle: Bad Patterns
A certain subsection of Taylor Swift fans spent this past January advancing the theory that she had written the script for Argylle. There’s some...
Film Shorts // February 21-27, 2024
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Article 370 (NR) Mariyam Nafees stars in this Indian thriller as a pregnant woman trying to survive in the war-torn Kashmir region. Also with...