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Film Shorts // February 21-27, 2024
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Article 370 (NR) Mariyam Nafees stars in this Indian thriller as a pregnant woman trying to survive in the war-torn Kashmir region. Also with...
Shang-Chi: Power of Ten
Here’s the extraordinary thing about Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: The Chinese have been trying to make this movie for the...
Odds and Ends
I’m not completely done with the movies of 2017 — the ogres over at Sony Pictures Classics didn’t let me see Loveless and A...
Different Man: Face Time
Some actors have a face that you can’t forget, and of nobody is that truer than Adam Pearson. The London native has neurofibromatosis, which...
Popular Man Date
You might mistake the slight, raunchy, thoroughly charming I Love You, Man for one of Judd Apatow's movies, especially since it stars two actors...
Playing for Keeps: Blown Dryer
I’m not sure what convinced Gerard Butler and decision-makers in Hollywood that his best move was to start portraying brash Americans. Whatever it was,...
Orient Express: Strangers on a Train
Kenneth Branagh’s new version of Murder on the Orient Express feels curiously old-fashioned. Not because it’s set in 1934, but because Branagh is taking...
“The Room” at Ridgmar Tavern
There are two kinds of great bad movies. The first kind is cheap crap turned out by a cynical director to make a quick...
Turning Point
When I reviewed the reboot of Spider-Man two years ago, I said that while I couldn’t find anything terribly wrong with it, I couldn’t...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2017
This was kind of a down year for movie dialogue, but I was still able to find some good examples from this year’s films....
