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Over a Barrel
A film with an interesting subject rather than an interesting film, Bottle Shock dramatizes the event known in wine circles as the Judgment of...
Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”
The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a...
DVD Reviews
AUSTRALIA (PG)
Bloated but charming and effective WWII-period piece by native Australian Baz Luhrmann (Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge). Fellow Aussie and Luhrmann go-to gal...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2022
Anna Rose Holmer made this list when she directed The Fits on her own, but this year she was part of a team with...
Film Shorts
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Nightcrawler (R) Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this thriller as a creepy loner who becomes a freelance crime journalist taking videos of accidents, police chases,...
Film Shorts
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The Last Ride (PG-13) Henry Thomas stars in this drama as country music legend Hank Williams, who in 1952 hires a local teenager (Jesse...
The Fall of a Sparrow
There are filmmakers who look back wistfully on the Hollywood of the 1930s and ’40s, when the studios had directors and other creative personnel...
End of Watch: Partners Against Crime
End of Watch is the third in a string of look-at-me-I’m-so-gritty dramas about Los Angeles cops directed by David Ayer. This one is different,...
The No Has It
Where advertising and politics meet, movies usually turn cynical and satiric. Political ads foul our airwaves, reduce complex policies to soundbites, pander to our...
Film Shorts // March 16-22, 2022
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Alice (R) Keke Palmer stars in this thriller as a slave who escapes from a Georgia plantation and discovers that the year is actually...
