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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Unbreakable Glass

Fathers and Sons

Look Up in the Sky

Heretic: American Pie

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Scarlett and Black

When Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff died in Avengers: Endgame — uh, spoiler alert — I thought, “She can’t be dead, because there’s going to be...
Fabrice Luchini critiques Emmanuelle Seigner and Ernst Umhauer’s kiss in In the House.

Ozon Layers

For the last 15 years, François Ozon has been one of the world’s most fascinating filmmakers. On one hand, he makes airy, farcical, Almodóvar-on-a-sugar-high...

Leftover Star Trek thoughts (and a defense of the fanboys)

With the release of the new Star Trek movie, your local movie theater will once again become nerd central. With it comes a wave...

Dora: Inca Dinka Doo

Early on, Dora and the Lost City of Gold signals that it’s not going to be a straight-up live-action version of Dora the Explorer,...

Bonus Film Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Unfortunately, the biggest accomplishment of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is to draw attention to the Ben Fountain novel that it's based on. That...

Film Shorts

OPENING  After Class (NR) Justin Long stars in this comedy as a professor who flees campus for a week after his behavior lands him in...

New Words With Ramona and Sarah

I just got back from watching the upcoming movie Ramona and Beezus, and while I can't tell you my opinion of it just yet,...

The Best Lead Performances of 2014

In contrast to my list of best supporting actors this past year, my list of best lead actors is so overwhelmingly male that it’s...

Ewoks on the Wild Side

The ewoks from 1983’s “Return of the Jedi” were largely responsible for cooling my passion for the original “Star Wars” franchise. Cute and mischevious...

History Brooks

Mel Brooks was always a sketch writer. He started out on the 1950s TV program Your Show of Shows, part of a legendary writers’...