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Shiva Baby: Danielle in the Lion’s Den
Whenever you think that Jewish humor is tapped out, someone else comes along and hauls something new up out of the mine. Shiva Baby...
The Top 10
America's economy may still be in recovery, but our film industry is in good health financially and (more importantly) artistically. That seems to be...
No Kids Under 18
Two years ago, Alfonso Cuarón directed a luminous adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and revitalized a movie series that might...
Janet, Dammit
I seem to lack the proper appreciation for these lyrical, contemplative films about girls growing up with distant parents. You may remember that I...
I Will Survive
Richard Curtis’ time-travel comedy About Time expands to Fort Worth this week (see Film Shorts), and it exhorts us to live each day as...
Marital Tate
The Proposal makes an instructive contract with Management, the film that opened and promptly closed last month. Both movies are about the romantic...
Get Low: Awake at the Wake
A festival favorite at Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca, Get Low finally comes to our theaters this week (specifically, to a regular run at several...
LSIFF Gets in Iranian Vampire Western
I will be covering the Lone Star International Film Festival on this blog all weekend, but I have an update to pass along to...
The Best Lead Actors of 2022
I’ve got more women than men in this year’s list. That isn’t anything new — in some years, the men dominate the lead roles,...
School Sucks for Wimpy Kid
The clunky family movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid shares its title with a successful series of novels by Jeff Kinney, though the plot...
