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Sentimental Value: Father-Daughter Act

Ask most film scholars to name a great Swedish director, and they’ll say Ingmar Bergman. Ask them for a great Finnish director, and they’ll...

Wake Up Dead Man: Murder on the Church Floor

I don’t know whether to call Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery a Christian film. It’s about Christianity, at any rate. We...

Eternity: Good Places

In 1998, the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda made a highly atypical work for him called After Life. Depicting life after death as a Buddhist...

Film Shorts // November 26 – December 2, 2025

  OPENING   Aftershock: The Nicole P. Bell Story (R) So indifferently acted and put together that its message gets lost. Rayven Symone Ferrell portrays the real-life...

Wicked: Dark Green

When I reviewed the first Wicked movie, I led off by wondering why the Broadway musical had been split into two parts for the...

Float On

Stephen King’s works are no stranger to long-form television, with perhaps the most famous being 1990’s It, featuring Tim Curry as child-eating monster Pennywise....

Film Shorts // November 19-25, 2025

  OPENING   Altered (PG-13) Tom Felton stars in this science-fiction thriller as a man fighting against a future dystopia where genetically enhanced people are the norm....

Running Man: Ben on the Run

Would it be sacrilegious if I said that the new version of The Running Man is a better movie than One Battle After Another?...

Film Shorts // November 12-18, 2025

  OPENING   The Carpenter’s Son (R) At least this bad Christian movie is based on a different part of the Bible. Adapted from the apocryphal Infancy...

Predator: Killing Kinds

While Dan Trachtenberg has now directed three movies in the Predator series, Predator: Badlands is the first one that you’ll be able to see...