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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Bradley Cooper are dressed for a con game in American Hustle.

Hustle and Russell

Film Shorts

The Top 10

The Debt Doesn’t Pay

Film Shorts

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Force of Will

I’ve been watching so many movies lately that maybe my usual defenses are worn down. The Pursuit of Happyness is the sort of movie...
Young Jiro Horikoshi holds an imaginary conversation with an Italian aviation pioneer in The Wind Rises.

Jiro Dreams of Aircraft

I never took Hayao Miyazaki seriously when he claimed that The Wind Rises would be his last movie. It seems that the now-73-year-old director...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Assassination Nation (R) This satirical high-school movie is about a group of girls (Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, and Abra) who are blamed...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Lincoln Lawyer (R) Matthew McConaughey stars in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel as a defense attorney who tries to save...

Some Movies I Overlooked Last Year

As happens every December, the crush of movie viewing at year’s end brought me into contact with some films that weren’t worthy of my...

Blessed Event

It's easy to say that Juno is the movie that Knocked Up should have been. It's one of those glib formulations that we critics are...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) Chris Evans stars in his superhero’s latest adventure, as he further adjusts to the modern world and battles...

Film Shorts

OPENING  All About Nina (R) Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars in this dramedy as a stand-up comic whose career is taking off even while her personal...

The Best Movie Dialogue of 2013

I’ve said it before, but I love compiling this post every year. (Here’s last year’s post.) Instead of citing the best movie scripts of...

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...