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Babylon: Hollywood Endings

My favorite film of all time is Singin’ in the Rain. It doesn’t take a film historian to see that Damien Chazelle holds that...

Film Shorts // December 21-27, 2022

OPENING   Cirkus (NR) This Indian adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors stars Ranveer Singh, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez, Johnny Lever, Sanjay Mishra, Varun Sharma,...

Avatar: Blue Waters

Did anybody else watch the Black Panther sequel and get the sense that they were trolling Avatar? That movie had blue-skinned sea-dwelling people, and...

Ice and Lightning

God of War (2018) stood as maybe the highest peak in the mountain range of Best Games of the Eighth Console Generation. With intricate, brutal...

Film Shorts // December 14-20, 2022

OPENING   Empire of Light (R) Yet another ode to the magic of cinema that doesn’t measure up to its subject. Olivia Colman plays an assistant...

Decision to Leave: You Belong to Me

The teasingly ambiguous Decision to Leave is the first Korean movie I’ve seen that feels like a Pedro Almodóvar film: languid, dreamy, filled with...

Film Shorts // December 7-13, 2022

OPENING   Aftersun (R) Charlotte Wells makes an impressive filmmaking debut with this autobiographical drama about a 10-year-old Scottish girl (Frankie Corio) who takes a summer...

Holiday Movie Preview

It’s the young people who are keeping movie theaters afloat these days. How else to explain the recent box-office numbers? We’ve seen Black Adam and...

Joysticks to the World

With games now averaging $70 a pop, here’s a guide to the year’s best to help you make the most of your holiday bucks. With...

Nanny: Don’t Go Near the Water

They’re selling Nanny as a horror movie. It was even co-produced by horror-movie outfit Blumhouse. The winner of the Jury Prize at Sundance isn’t...