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Cowboys and Amphibians
This week’s films all trade in outright fantasy, but only one of them succeeds in turning the tropes of fable and science fiction into...
Tolstoy Finds The Last Station
When he died, Leo Tolstoy was basically an old hippie. Immensely rich and famous from authoring War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the Russian...
Armageddon Time: Smoking in the Boys Room
I’ve made clear before that I don’t care much for James Gray, but I’ll say this: Armageddon Time is his best movie, in my...
Phantom Thread: Mr. Woodcock
I’m usually skeptical of artists announcing their retirement when they’re neither terminally ill nor really old. (See: Soderbergh, Steven and Miyazaki, Hayao.) However, I’m...
28 Years Later: Memento Mori
Okay, this is easy. We’re getting more entertainment about the long-term effects of zombies because we ourselves survived a global plague that has killed...
Film Shorts // May 14-20, 2025
OPENING
Ada: My Mother the Architect (NR) Yael Melamede’s documentary profiles her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
A Breed Apart (R) Grace Caroline Currey...
Crimes of the Future: The First Cut Is the Deepest
We have the David Cronenberg of old back in Crimes of the Future. The Canadian maestro of mutilated flesh made his name with body...
Rollin’
Film began as an indoor artform, with cameras being too bulky and expensive to move outdoors. However, inventors still found ways to address nature...
One Battle: I’d Love to Change the World
“You know what freedom is?” a karate instructor named Sergio (Benicio del Toro) asks the man (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is sitting on the passenger...
Ready or Not: Olly Olly Oxen Free
You may remember Samara Weaving making a brief but hilarious impression as the ex’s rambling fiancée in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The 27-year-old...
