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Film Shorts // January 8-14, 2025
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Birdeater (NR) This comic thriller stars Shabana Azeez as a bride-to-be who’s invited to her future husband’s bachelor party, with unpredictable results. Also with...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2024
Need hope for the upcoming year? Writing up this feature always gives me that, as I look forward to the movies these first-time directors...
Film Shorts // January 1-7, 2025
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Barroz (NR) Mohanlal stars in and directs this Malayalam-language fantasy film about a ghost who guards a centuries-old Portuguese treasure until it’s found by...
Top Docs of ’24
Earlier this year, I wrote in our Pride Month issue that trans filmmakers might be the next wave in LGBTQ filmmaking. Now I find that...
Complete Unknown: What About Bob?
Yet another music biopic that feels about as deep as a children’s picture book, A Complete Unknown is based on Elijah Wald’s history Dylan...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2024
They say that blog posts are all audio and visual content now, and that the written word is becoming an afterthought. Maybe that’s true,...
Nosferatu: Walpurgisnacht
Time once again for me to be a film-school nerd. May I direct your attention to the whiteboard. Like all other film-school nerds, regardless...
Top 10 Films of ’24
Maybe we should start calling this feature the Top 10 Fiction Films. I don’t include documentaries in this list anymore because I give them...
Film Shorts // December 25-31, 2024
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Baby John (NR) This Hindi-language remake of the Tamil film Theri is an action thriller about an honest cop (Varun Dhawan) and a crooked...
Film Shorts // December 18-24, 2024
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Bachhala Malli (NR) Allari Naresh stars in this Telugu-language action-thriller. Also with Amritha Aiyer, Hari Teja, Rao Ramesh, Sai Kumar, and Achyuth Kumar. (Opens...
