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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Adolescent Dramas

Sundance Kid

Hustlers: Money Moves

The Beauty & the Blecch

A Faulkner Story

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Sting: Along Came a Spider

Like many people, I have seen the superbly funny YouTube clip where film director Kevin Smith describes his experiences working on an aborted Superman...

Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”

The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a...

Seed of the Sacred Fig: A Movie in Secret

Mohammad Rasoulof is now an exile because he made The Seed of the Sacred Fig. The Iranian director was the talk of the Cannes...

Film Shorts // May 15-21, 2024

OPENING   The American (NR) Talia Ryder stars in this dance film as an American ballerina accepted into Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Also with Diane Kruger,...

Top Films of 2006

While it was going on, 2006 didn’t seem to me like that great a year for movies. Only now, as I look back, do...

Film Shorts // August 28 – September 3, 2024

OPENING   Across the River and Into the Trees (NR) Based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel, this drama stars Liev Schreiber as a World War II hero...

Film Shorts // January 5-11, 2022

OPENING   American Siege (R) Yet another cop thriller starring Bruce Willis, this is about a small-town sheriff fighting a militia that takes a wealthy doctor...
I, Frankenstein opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: I, Frankenstein (PG-13) Aaron Eckhart stars in this supernatural thriller as the mad scientist’s creation who has survived into the modern age to take...

No Hard Feelings: Jen X

We’ve seen before how actors win Oscars or even just get a nomination and react to it by turning all serious. They take roles...

Fright Night: Meet the Neighbor

The latest in Hollywood’s slovenly 21st-century penchant for remakes, Fright Night updates the blood-spattered 1985 vampire classic with ample humor and pitch-perfect performances, seasoned...