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Supernova: We Are All Made of Stars
In my travels, I’ve come across numerous movies that were dull, bad, or ordinary yet had a single moment or scene that achieved greatness....
Film Shorts
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (NR) Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary profile of activist Jane Jacobs and her fight against the urban New York City...
Double Dune
When I reviewed the first Dune movie two and a half years ago, I reported that it left me cold, but I allowed for the possibility...
Just Breathe
Some filmmakers inspire feelings of mystical reverence. Their works are so consistently high in quality, so seamless, so strange, and so committed to seeing...
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...
Sputnik: Passenger
For decades, Russian filmmakers have largely ignored the international audience. They’ve made films strictly for domestic moviegoers, because there have been enough of those...
Red Dead Redemption
AMC Grapevine Mills has been running Korean films on a semi-regular basis for a while now, but Commitment, which starts there on Friday, is...
Film Shorts
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Man From Reno (NR) Ayako Fujitani stars as a Japanese mystery novelist who becomes entangled in a real-life mystery in Northern California. Also with...
The Comedian: Laugh Lines
Funny people are delightful to be around, but professionally funny people can be exhausting. They turn every conversation into a wisecrack, a pun, an...
T2: Talking Smack
Twenty years ago, I saw Trainspotting and thought, “Holy crap!” Danny Boyle’s drama about dead-end Scottish heroin addicts detonated on the scene in 1996,...
