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OPENING: The Baader Meinhof Complex (R) Uli Edel's film dramatizes the left-wing group whose terrorist bombings rocked West Germany in the 1970s. Starring Moritz Bleibtreu,...

Tru and Two

Infamous tells the story of author Truman Capote and his career-defining decision to write In Cold Blood, his novel about a mass murder in...

Film Shorts // October 20-26, 2021

OPENING   Becoming Cousteau (PG-13) This documentary by Liz Garbus (All In: The Fight for Democracy) profiles the undersea explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau. (Opens Friday) De...

The Trouble With Harry

I’m in a difficult position here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is the seventh installment of an eight-part series. As such,...

Best Documentaries of ’18

I wanted to pay tribute to as many films as possible this year, which is why I left the docs off my Top 10...

Sasquatch Sunset: The Last of Us

I don’t know if Sasquatch Sunset will wind up being the strangest movie I see in 2024, but it will definitely be a big...

R.I.P., John Barry

While I was writing up my Milton Babbitt obituary earlier, another composer also passed away this past weekend. John Barry, who penned dozens of...

Film Shorts // September 4-10, 2024

OPENING   Don’t Turn Out the Lights (R) Andy Fickman (She’s the Man) writes and directs this horror film about a group of friends who must...

The Karate Kid: Kung Fu Shuffle

All right, this is bugging me: Why is this movie entitled The Karate Kid? I understand why the filmmakers would want to keep the...

Babbling Brooke

The press can’t resist a narrative, especially when it resembles a bad romantic comedy. Noah Baumbach spent the late 2000s gaining a small but...