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Sorry, Baby: That Thing
Sorry, Baby is a movie about rape, but it painstakingly does not show us the action that defines its story. An indirect approach like...
Uncut Gems: Howard’s End
Sometimes, it’s really fun to be the guy saying that the Christmas movie riding a wave of positive buzz is terrible. Uncut Gems is...
Raging Fire: Yen for Justice
The Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan was working on Raging Fire in 2019 when he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. He died from the...
Magic Mike: Comic Strip
A few years ago, Steven Soderbergh made a movie called The Girlfriend Experience about a high-priced prostitute, in which he cast a porn star...
Film Shorts // June 26 – July 2, 2024
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Blue Lock: Episode Nagi (PG-13) The big-screen version of the anime series follows Seishiro Nagi (voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki) before he enters the youth...
Ricki Road
A typical entry with an atypical provenance, Ricki and the Flash is an attempt by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody to...
Memorable Moments from 2010’s Movies
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier: Film Comment used to do a feature in their print version called “Moments Out...
Quaid Pro Quo
Mark Jude Poirier's name will be more easily recognized by readers than cinephiles.
He's an acclaimed fiction writer whose novels (Goats) and short-story collections (Unsung...
I’m Not There
The best bets this Valentine's Day are two special-effects-laden fantasy films from Hollywood, both blessedly free of any pretensions to be the next Lord...
Film Shorts // January 14-20, 2026
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All You Need Is Kill (R) This Japanese anime film is based on the same Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel that the Tom Cruise vehicle Edge...
