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Where advertising and politics meet, movies usually turn cynical and satiric. Political ads foul our airwaves, reduce complex policies to soundbites, pander to our...
Film Shorts // June 2-8, 2021
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The Carnivores (NR) This drama stars Lindsay Burdge and Tallie Medel as a lesbian couple whose marriage starts to come apart under the strain...
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Boyhood (R) Filmed over the course of 12 years, Richard Linklater’s drama stars Ellar Coltrane as a boy who experiences life between the ages...
How She Does It
In our post-Oprah era, the overachieving mother who balances a high-profile job with keeping a perfect house and happy marriage should make for a...
Late Night Showing
We’ve had some workplace comedies recently that aren’t about young women trying to break in but rather about older women who’ve reached the top...
DVD Review: “Tiny Furniture”
When Lena Dunham's comedy Tiny Furniture came out in 2010, I recognized it for breakout talent and best movie dialogue that year. The film...
First Cow: Got Milk?
Some of the most fascinating filmmakers seem to have been born at the wrong time. Whit Stillman should have been writing Restoration comedies, Guy...
Film Shorts
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Becoming Astrid (NR) This Swedish biopic stars Alba August as young Astrid Lindgren, the author who created Pippi Longstocking. Also with Trine Dyrholm, Maria...
To the Max
What you'll probably notice about writer-director Spike Jonze's long-anticipated Where the Wild Things Are is that a lot is missing: cheap pop-culture references, self-conscious...
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The Bad Batch (R) This English-language Western by Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) stars Suki Waterhouse as a woman...















