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Friday, May 1, 2026

Film Shorts

Suddenly Susan

Matthew Fox and Eriko Hatsune pursue an ill-starred wartime romance in Emperor.

Emperor: Occupy Japan

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Nightingale: White Devil

Jennifer Kent is relentless. I say that with some degree of certainty, having seen the Australian filmmaker’s harrowing 2015 debut The Babadook and now...

Larry Stanley Returns Home

Larry Stanley is an avowed Christian whose religion informs his filmmaking, but he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a Christian filmmaker. “I don’t...
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (R) Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) directs this fantasy starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as grown-up versions of the...

Brittany: We Come Running

You don’t have to be a fitness geek with 2 percent body fat to run a marathon. In fact, it’s possible to be quite...

Let Me In: “I’ve Been 12 for a Long Time”

The insinuating Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In took the world (including the 2008 Lone Star International Film Festival) by storm, and...

Allied: Love During Wartime

Allied Starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Written by Steven Knight. Rated R. To answer your question, I don’t know whether Marion...

The Post: My God, the Fun!

Steven Spielberg's The Post isn’t a great movie, but it is a timely one, and sometimes that’s even better. As we watch its characters...

Film Shorts

OPENING Almost Friends (NR) Freddie Highmore stars in this dramedy as an unmotivated slacker who falls for a woman (Odeya Rush) despite the fact that...
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard take in the latest speed bump on their trip to L.A. in "Hit & Run."

Hit & Run: Dax a Lot

Dax Shepard became famous as one of Ashton Kutcher’s crew of pranksters on the now-defunct TV show Punk’d before settling into a career of...

The Top 10

This year’s movies brought us Life, Love, Youth, and Joy, as well as a bunch of films about women that wound up dominating this...