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Holiday Films, Oscar Bait
We have to start this piece with the strangest movie of the season and possibly the year. The Testament of Ann Lee is a musical...
Film Shorts // December 3-9, 2025
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Akhanda 2: Thaandavam (NR) The sequel to the 2021 hit stars Nandamuri Balakrishna as the warrior who battles to restore peace to the natural...
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
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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
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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?...
