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Film Shorts // May 21-27, 2025

  OPENING   Ace (NR) VIjay Sethupathi stars in this action-comedy as an Indian criminal who’s caught up in a heist plot in Malaysia. Also with Rukmini...

Old Woman With the Knife: Roach Killer

The Korean thriller The Old Woman With the Knife opens at AMC Grapevine Mills this weekend. That evocative title will sound familiar to those...

Andor-ing

A meme derived from a 2009 political cartoon always comes to mind when I see a new Star Wars project. Farmer Mickey Mouse, with an...

Film Shorts // May 14-20, 2025

  OPENING   Ada: My Mother the Architect (NR) Yael Melamede’s documentary profiles her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede. (Opens Friday in Dallas) A Breed Apart (R) Grace Caroline Currey...

Adolescence: ‘What Have You Done?’

Sometimes when a cultural phenomenon seems to come out of nowhere, I’m already on top of it. The British crime drama Adolescence quickly became a...

Film Shorts // May 7-13, 2025

  OPENING   The Ancestral Home (NR) Phuong My Chi stars in this Vietnamese supernatural comedy as a social-media influencer who encounters her late brother’s ghost (Huynh...

Another Simple Favor: Blood-Spattered Bride

Why isn’t Another Simple Favor in theaters? The sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor is good enough to be there, considerably better than a...

Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”

The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a...

‘Make Me Famous’

Social media has given us all the intense mania to be noticed. We document our lives and world through selfies, looking in the mirror...

Film Shorts // April 30 – May 6, 2025

  OPENING   Bonjour Tristesse (R) Based on Françoise Sagan’s novel, this movie is about a teenager (Lily McInerny) whose parents’ old friend (Chloë Sevigny) suddenly interrupts...