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Holdovers: I’ll Have a Blue Christmas
One of Roger Ebert’s last film reviews was of Barney’s Version, and I remember how he described Paul Giamatti’s character in the 2011 comedy:...
A More Crowded Oscar Race
For more than 60 years, five films have been nominated each year for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Yesterday, the Academy announced that...
How Ya Get So Fly
Jason Reitman has now directed three films, and so far the most famous is his second one, Juno. I suspect we'll look back on...
Clint and Woody Have Psychic Visions
In their latest movies, Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen are thinking about the great beyond. Of course, it isn’t unusual that filmmakers aged 80...
Further Thoughts on Batman
WARNING: MULTIPLE SPOILERS AHEAD
Because of deadlines, I only had one hour to write up my review of The Dark Knight Rises last week. I...
TV Glow: Pink Opaque
Who do we have in the way of trans filmmakers? We’ve had the Wachowski siblings, and now we have Jane Schoenbrun, who’s transfeminine and...
Mars Express: Red Planet Revolt
I wasn’t looking for a French update of Ghost in the Shell, but now that one is playing this weekend at AMC Grapevine Mills,...
Film Shorts
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania (NR) Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt star as mismatched lovers in this Indian romance. Also with Gauhar Khan, Shweta Prasad, Girish...
Oh, What a Biutiful Mess
In December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named Biutiful the best foreign language film of 2010. Last week, the movie picked up Oscar...
Film Shorts
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Bernie (PG-13) Based on a real-life murder case, Richard Linklater’s film stars Jack Black as a small-town Texas mortician who kills a wealthy widow...
