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Joan of Waystar
A timely rumination on the plight of siblings affected by the black hole that substituting wealth for love creates in families, Succession was recently called...
Film Shorts // June 7-13, 2023
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The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (NR) This kids’ movie stars Laya DeLeon Hayes as a girl who conducts a series of medical...
Spider-Man: Miles Deep
What a treat the Spider-Verse series is for the eyes. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse begins with an extended pre-credit sequence following Gwen Stacy (voiced...
Film Shorts // May 31 – June 6, 2023
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The Boogeyman (PG-13) This is based on a Stephen King short story, and it’s exactly like too many other horror movies at the multiplex....
Little Mermaid: Surf and Turf
I’ll tell you what my reaction was when I first saw Halle Bailey as Ariel in the trailer for The Little Mermaid. I thought,...
You Hurt My Feelings: The Whites of Their Lies
More than 20 years I’ve been banging on about Nicole Holofcener in these pages. I’m not sorry, either. She came up during the indie-film...
About My Father: Papa Loves Mambo
I caught Sebastian Maniscalco’s standup act in the early 2000s, and I didn’t care for him, with all his judgments on how men and...
Summer Movie Preview
In encouraging news for theaters, the summer season has already started out with hit returns for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Fast X....
Film Shorts // May 24-30, 2023
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It Ain’t Over (PG) Back in the 1980s, baseball statistician Bill James was making the argument that Yogi Berra’s colorful personality had come to...
Film Shorts // May 17-23, 2023
OPENING
Anni Manchi Sakunamule (NR) This Indian romantic film stars Santosh Sobhan, Malvika Nair, Ravendra Prasad, Rao Ramesh, Naresh, Gauthami, and Vennela Kishore. (Opens Friday)
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