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Sunday, July 6, 2025

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Gaby Hoffmann (standing) tries to cheer up a disconsolate Jenny Slate (in box) in Obvious Child.

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Backed by session musicians and neighborhood kids, Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo prepare to record outdoors in Begin Again.

I Feel the Music in You

Back in 2007, Irish TV writer John Carney made his first film, a slender little romance called Once that was mostly intended to showcase...

Gassed to Death

Chris Paine’s documentary asks Who Killed the Electric Car? I thought we knew. It was that secret society that Homer Simpson was trying to...
Reese Witherspoon stars in The Good Lie.

Kansas City Chief

Reese Witherspoon bought the rights to Gone Girl  and wanted to star in it until David Fincher convinced her otherwise. While staying on that...

Street Life

Richard Gere shouldn’t play a homeless person. Let’s just say that off the bat. He gives it a good try in Time Out of...

Sigh-orama

Confession time: I love summer movies. I grew up on Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and the first run of Batman movies. I'd rather watch...

Conduct Unbecoming

Anne Hathaway is easy to look at under normal circumstances, but in Becoming Jane she is downright breathtaking, with her hair in photogenic upswept...

Shirley That’s Enough

Lots of actors can express contempt, but when Elisabeth Moss grabs hold of it, it’s special. Somehow she makes that basic emotion into something...

Odds and Ends

I couldn’t get to the few movies that are being released in theaters this week, so I thought I’d run another of my yearly...

Consecration Game

You know the drill with these Catholic horror movies: tons of bombast, fusty church backdrops, cheesy demon effects, conspiracies reaching into Rome, Latin words...

Dragon Tattoo Redo

Ever since Stieg Larsson’s flawed but highly addictive Swedish-language Millennium trilogy exploded into the English-speaking world, movie fans have been waiting for a Hollywood...