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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

My Name Is… Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Reese Witherspoon stars in The Good Lie.

Kansas City Chief

Argylle: Bad Patterns

The Runaways: Jett Trail

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Ice Castle

Last August we had The Snow Queen, a Russian film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fable. Frozen is based on the same story, but...

Marital Tate

The Proposal makes an instructive contract with Management, the film that opened and promptly closed last month. Both movies are about the romantic...

MyDeath.com

Hollywood has been remaking Japanese horror flicks for some years now, and quite frankly I’m amazed that the movies haven’t been screwed up in...

T2: Talking Smack

Twenty years ago, I saw Trainspotting and thought, “Holy crap!” Danny Boyle’s drama about dead-end Scottish heroin addicts detonated on the scene in 1996,...

Pope Francis: Frank Conversation

In February 2013, when Pope Benedict XVI stepped down due to his advancing age, the Catholic Church found itself in dire need of a...
With mannequins in the background, Tim Jenison preps his life-size replica of Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" in Tim's Vermeer.

Beautiful Obsession

The enthralling documentary Tim’s Vermeer made a big splash when it opened last year’s Lone Star Film Festival, and this weekend it comes to...

Film Shorts

  OPENING   A Call to Spy (PG-13) Lydia Dean Pilcher (Radium Girls) directs this drama about the women whom Britain’s espionage service recruits to spy on...

Film Shorts

OPENING   Blindfire (NR) Brian Geraghty stars in this thriller as a white police officer who tries to clear his name after killing an innocent African-American...

Force of Will

I’ve been watching so many movies lately that maybe my usual defenses are worn down. The Pursuit of Happyness is the sort of movie...
Emmanuelle Riva plays piano in her home before illness strikes in Amour.

Amour, Quartet: Old Wave

Movies tend to neglect seniors as subjects. This is neither a recent phenomenon, nor is it a Hollywood thing. Filmmakers and audiences everywhere have...