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Sex and Brandy
Aubrey Plaza gets herself a whole new act in The To Do List, ditching the jaded, sarcastic persona she assumes on TV’s Parks and...
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Devil’s Knot (NR) Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon star in Atom Egoyan’s drama about a trial of three teenagers accused of murdering children. Also...
You Won’t Be Alone: Nightmare of the Wolf
They’re selling You Won’t Be Alone as a horror film. It really isn’t, even though its main character eats animals’ and people’s entrails. (In...
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Assassination Nation (R) This satirical high-school movie is about a group of girls (Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, and Abra) who are blamed...
Film Shorts // May 7-13, 2025
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The Ancestral Home (NR) Phuong My Chi stars in this Vietnamese supernatural comedy as a social-media influencer who encounters her late brother’s ghost (Huynh...
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The Road Within (R) Robert Sheehan stars as a young Tourette’s syndrome patient who escapes from a clinic so he can scatter his recently...
Ansel Elgort to Play Van Cliburn
I interrupt my World Cup blogging to bring you this juicy piece of Hollywood/classical music news: Ansel Elgort, the star of the current hit...
Nostalgia Trip
It’s weird to think people can now be nostalgic for a show so steeped in nostalgia. There are viewers in their teens and twenties...
Happening: A Cinematic Event
Well, looky here. Just a week after that Supreme Court opinion leaked signaling the end of constitutional rights to abortion in America, here comes...
Step Up: Flash Dance
For all the talk about how 3D has changed action thrillers and inflated box-office totals, one thing we haven’t seen yet is musicals putting...
