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Film Shorts // January 21-27, 2026

  OPENING   All That’s Left of You (NR) Cherien Dabis writes, directs, and stars in this Jordanian film as a mother recalling her teenage son (Adam...

28 Years Later: Red Devil

It takes a mighty special filmmaker to reboot the Candyman series and then turn around and do a Black gay update of Henrik Ibsen....

No Other Choice: Making Paper

Ask most people to name a film by Park Chan-wook, and they’ll say Oldboy. That movie came out more than 20 years ago, a...

Film Shorts // January 14-20, 2026

  OPENING   All You Need Is Kill (R) This Japanese anime film is based on the same Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel that the Tom Cruise vehicle Edge...

See B.S.

The original plan was to watch an entire week of the brand-new CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil. It turns out that it’s next to...

Online Film Critics Announce Nominations

This is my first year voting for the Online Film Critics Society Awards, and yesterday they announced their nominations for 2025's movies. Unlike other...

The Best Documentaries of 2025

My list of the year’s best documentaries looks different from other critics’ lists, mainly because I put a premium on things like entertainment value...

The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2025

A lot of famous actors made their directing debuts in 2025, but none of their efforts were good enough to make it onto this...

Open Netflix House

North Texas is morphing into a fierce competitor in the interactive-entertainment industry. The region is already the birthplace of massive video game franchises, including DOOM, Duke...

Viva New Vegas

Open-world games like the Fallout ones are well known for letting the player go almost anywhere and do almost anything. They’re also famous for having...