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Cartel Land (R) Matthew Heineman’s documentary about ordinary people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border taking a stand against the rising tide of...
Film Shorts // January 10-16, 2024
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All of Us Strangers (R) Based on Taichi Yamada’s novel, Andrew Haigh’s science-fiction romance is about a gay Englishman (Andrew Scott) who mysteriously meets...
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Backtrack (R) Adrien Brody stars in this supernatural thriller as a psychiatrist who discovers that all the patients he’s been seeing are ghosts. Also...
Descendants: Mahalo to All That
When Alexander Payne made Sideways seven years ago, George Clooney lobbied hard for the role that was eventually played by Thomas Haden Church. Payne...
MacGruber: The ’80s Live! (Sort Of)
What a strange trip it’s been for MacGruber. At first, a movie made from the recurring series of Saturday Night Live sketches seemed like...
Indiana Jones: If I Could Turn Back Time
The most remarkable thing about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny happens right at the beginning. In an extended prologue set during the...
Emilia Pérez: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Trans musicals are officially a thing now. For years, Hedwig and the Angry Inch had the field to itself. Since then, it’s been joined...
Holiday Films, Oscar Bait
We have to start this piece with the strangest movie of the season and possibly the year. The Testament of Ann Lee is a musical...
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Rise of the Guardians (PG) This animated adaptation of William Joyce’s book features Jack Frost, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny...
Considering Ellen Page
While I was watching the remake of Flatliners collapse into a pile of goo, I realized that Ellen Page is stuck. It's not just...
