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Friends With Kids: Meet the Parents
You could be forgiven for thinking that Friends With Kids is an unofficial sequel to Bridesmaids. After all, half the cast of last summer’s...
Holiday Movie Preview
When I wrote up this piece last year, Hollywood was giving the popcorn crowd precious little to look forward to. There’s a much more...
Film Shorts
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The Dissident (PG-13) This film by Oscar-winning documentarian Bryan Fogel (Icarus) investigates the murder of Saudi-American journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its subsequent cover-up by...
Top 10 Documentaries
I saw Donald Trump appear in at least 10 documentaries that I watched this year, and that number only figures to trend upward in...
Film Shorts // September 24-30, 2025
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The Adventure (NR) This Chinese comedy stars Jia Bing as a 43-year-old man who magically switches places with his teenage self (Wang Hao). Also...
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...
Post Romanticism
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: Sandra Bullock is best known as a comic actress, but her best work tends to come...
Also-Ran
Of all the young, male comedic actors who have recently been in or directed movies that don’t hew to formula, Steve Carell is arguably...
Uncanny Valli
There are tons of reasons why the movie version of Jersey Boys shouldn’t work. Most of them have to do with director Clint Eastwood....
DVD Review: “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within”
The other particularly notable film coming out on DVD this week is Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, a Brazilian cop thriller that made my...
