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Nightcrawler (R) Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this thriller as a creepy loner who becomes a freelance crime journalist taking videos of accidents, police chases,...
L.A. Lawless
The uneven career of Jack Black has had some delirious highs (The School of Rock) and gruesome lows (Gulliver’s Travels), but this comic actor...
Mean Girls: It Roars
Dear God, has it really been 20 years since the original Mean Girls came out? (Not quite, but it will be in a few...
If I Were a Queen
Sofia Coppola’s third film, Marie Antoinette comes trailing bad buzz from Cannes this past summer, where a largely French crowd greeted it with boos...
I Taped an Alien
If The Fourth Kind had come out next spring, we could have dismissed it as a Johnny-come-lately rip-off of Paranormal Activity. Coming out now,...
Blogging “Black Swan” (Part 3)
I didn't know how many installments there would be of this series when I started out, but now I've decided there will be five....
To the Wonder: Into Thin Air
Did we overrate Terrence Malick, or is he just regressing to the mean after The Tree of Life? Anyone who saw his Oscar-nominated cultural...
Film Shorts // August 18-24, 2021
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Bellbottom (NR) Akshay Kumar stars in this Indian thriller as a spy leading a team to rescue 210 hostages from an airplane hijacking in...
KP Duty
Unlike most of the local filmmakers I profile, John Venable is someone I've known for a long time. That's because he's a film critic...
Widows: Four Funerals and a Robbery
After making a movie like 12 Years a Slave, you can hardly fault Steve McQueen for wanting to lighten up for his next film....
