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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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Seberg: Jean in a Bottle

At the tail end of last year, Seberg was given a pro forma release in New York to make it eligible for the Oscars....

Film Shorts

OPENING  And Then We Danced (NR) The cause of a full-scale riot in the country of Georgia, Levan Akin’s drama is about a traditional Georgian...

The Lodge: Dead Snow

Five years ago, the filmmaking team of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz captured the world’s attention with Goodnight Mommy, a horror movie they made...

The 30 Best Korean Movies of the 21st Century

I promised myself that if Parasite won the Best Picture Oscar, I’d run this listicle of the best Korean films I’ve seen since the...

Marriage Story: Split

Oh, Noah Baumbach, you magnificent bastard. This highly literate filmmaker often writes about scabrous divorces, and you’d be hard pressed to find one more...

Irishman: Made Man

In the end, The Irishman’s winless fate at the Oscars was probably down to a surfeit of woe-is-me tales about aging white guys like...

Film Shorts

OPENING  The Assistant (R) Julia Garner stars in this drama as an assistant at a film studio who realizes that her boss is a sexual...

A Beginner’s Guide to Korean Cinema

A little more than 10 years ago, I wrote an article for this paper reporting on the first Korean-language films playing in the area...

Birds of Prey: Harley Har Har

Here’s a modest prediction: I don’t think Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) will be nominated for the Best...

Odds and Ends

Since the Oscars are happening early this year, so is this annual piece of mine in which I write miniature reviews for movies from...