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Film Shorts

  OPENING   Critical Thinking (NR) John Leguizamo directs and stars in this drama based on the true story of the Miami inner-city high-school chess team that...

Bill & Ted Face the Music Parties On, Dude

Bill & Ted Face the Music is an excellent entry in a franchise that wasn’t supposed to turn into a franchise, but here we...

Tenet: If I Could Turn Back Time

They say that life can only be understood backward but must be lived forward. Well, Christopher Nolan says, “Screw all that. We can do...

R.I.P., Chadwick Boseman

Back in April, when everything was locked down, a bunch of my social media friends posted various “2020 sucks” memes on their feeds. I...

Film Shorts

  OPENING   Bill & Ted Face the Music (PG-13) Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite for this third installment in the time-travel comedy series, as two...

David Copperfield‘s Tricks

I had all these complex theories about why there are so few good film versions of Charles Dickens’ novels. Then I saw The Personal...

Film Shorts

  OPENING   The Burnt Orange Heresy (PG-13) Giuseppe Capotondi adapts Charles Willeford’s novel into this atmospheric thriller that turns out to be something of a shell...

Words on Bathroom Walls: Plummer and Chef

A plurality of movie theaters reopens in Tarrant County this week. Along with so much else, the coronavirus epidemic has shifted the parameters of...

Sputnik: Passenger

For decades, Russian filmmakers have largely ignored the international audience. They’ve made films strictly for domestic moviegoers, because there have been enough of those...

Black, Gold, and Red Penguins

My interests in hockey and film don’t often intersect, but with the NHL back on the ice, Universal Studios is putting out Red Penguins,...