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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Night of the Laughing Dead

Burnt Down for What

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

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Neil Young Journeys opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Neil Young Journeys (PG) Jonathan Demme’s concert film of the rock star’s return to Toronto in May 2011. (Opens Friday in Dallas) NOW PLAYING: The Amazing...

Dahmer: Jeff Who Lives at Home

What idiot executive told Netflix to title its dramatic series Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story? One-third of the words would have told...
Ryan Gosling prepares to rob a bank on his motorcycle in The Place Beyond the Pines.

Beyond the Pines: Fathers and Sons

I hate to agree with the consensus, but sometimes there’s just nowhere else to go. Three years ago, Derek Cianfrance made a magnificent filmmaking...

Summer Games

In one of those weird confluences of events, Hollywood’s four new releases this week are all about men testing and challenging themselves through play,...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Girl Who Played With Fire (R) The sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo stars Michael Nyqvist as a Swedish journalist...

The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2024

Need hope for the upcoming year? Writing up this feature always gives me that, as I look forward to the movies these first-time directors...

Bonus Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

One thing that was always missing from the Harry Potter books and movies was the Americans. J.K. Rowling alluded to differences in the ways...

Thirteen

First of all, Keeping Up With the Steins isn’t to be confused with 2002’s Kissing Jessica Stein. Between the Judaism and the low-budget depictions...

Film Shorts // April 10-16, 2024

OPENING   Aavesham (NR) This Indian action-comedy is about three new students in Bangalore who enlist a mobster (Fahadh Faasil) to help them get back at...

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:...