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Film Shorts // May 3-9, 2023
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Carmen (R) Ballet superstar Benjamin Millepied makes his filmmaking debut with this musical re-imagining of Bizet’s opera, starring Paul Mescal, Melissa Barrera, Elsa Pataky,...
Zone of Interest: Next-Door Neighbors
I wrote in my Top 10 Movies list that Japan had a great year in 2023. I could have mentioned Germany, too. That country...
Film Shorts // March 24-30, 2021
OPENING
Mystery of the Kingdom of God (NR) This Christian animated film is about a boy who must undergo trials and tests to be admitted...
DVD Review: The Last Five Years
With Jason Robert Brown in town for the TCU Festival of American Song, I feel like now’s as good a time as any to...
See How They Run: Murder Behind the Scenes
Oh, how the British must have watched Knives Out with jealousy. Time was, the U.K. used to turn out lighthearted murder mysteries like that...
Narrative Voice
I can safely say that Stranger Than Fiction is stranger than your average movie.
The film isn’t odd because it’s about a character in...
Hereditary: Tiny Furniture
Some horror films suggest that the real evil to fear isn’t vampires or werewolves or the like but rather our own human flaws and...
The Second 100 Best Movies of the 2010s
Would you believe it? This is only the second full decade I’ve been employed as a film critic. Other people have done lists of...
Love and Other Drugs: Jagged Little Pill
The promotional materials for Love and Other Drugs make it look like a cookie-cutter romantic comedy, but that’s wrong. The movie is actually a...
It Stinks
This past weekend, I saw a 2½-hour movie about a bunch of social outcasts (mostly boys with one girl) who bonded when they were...
