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Banshees: Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Martin McDonagh became famous for his stage plays set in his native Ireland such as The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lieutenant of...

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...

Woo!

When was the last time you saw a good lawyer show? The last one I saw was The Good Wife, which went off the...

Film Shorts // November 2-8, 2022

OPENING   Aftersun (R) Charlotte Wells’ drama is about a 10-year-old Scottish girl (Frankie Corio) who takes a summer vacation in Turkey with her father (Paul...

Till: This Boy’s Life

Something I’ve noticed in this job: When actors whom I’ve never seen or heard of deliver a great film performance, they’re more likely to...

Film Shorts // October 26 – November 1, 2022

OPENING   Call Jane (R) Not terrible, but also not terribly urgent given its subject matter. Elizabeth Banks stars as an Illinois housewife in 1969 who...

He Lives!

People who work day-to-day, blue-collar, service jobs intersect most of our lives all the time, but we don’t give many if any of them...

Tár: Lydian Mode

Sexual harassment can happen in most professions, but classical music makes it particularly easy. Teachers spend a great deal of one-on-one time with students,...

Film Shorts // October 19-25, 2022

OPENING   American Murderer (R) This true-crime film stars Tom Pelphrey as Jason Derek Brown, the wealthy con artist who became a wanted killer. Also with...

Film Shorts // October 12-18, 2022

OPENING   All Quiet on the Western Front (R) Felix Kammerer stars in this adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel about a young German soldier seeing...