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Cowboys & Aliens (PG-13) Jon Favreau’s adaptation of a comic book is about an alien invasion in an Arizona town in 1873, starring...
David Copperfield‘s Tricks
I had all these complex theories about why there are so few good film versions of Charles Dickens’ novels. Then I saw The Personal...
Dr. P. and the Women
This Jon Heder thing needs to stop before it gets out of hand. I mean, OK, we all loved Napoleon Dynamite, or at least...
Gripping
In The Believer, Ryan Gosling’s portrayal of a self-loathing Jewish neo-Nazi who plots to bomb his community’s synagogue, enchanted audiences at the 2001 Sundance...
Ella McCay: I’m Not With Her
It didn’t take long. We weren’t a minute into Ella McCay when the onscreen narrator (Julie Kavner) tells us about the title character, “I’m...
Beats, Rhymes & Life: Rap Promoters
A Tribe Called Quest came along in the early 1990s, when hip-hop music was dominated by murderously petty feuds and aggressive braggadocio. In this...
“Jackie Brown” at The Modern
I’m not a big Quentin Tarantino fan, but his best movie by far is 1997’s underrated Jackie Brown. It proved he had the discipline...
Film Shorts // April 5-11, 2023
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August 16, 1947 (NR) Gautham Karthik stars in this action-thriller as an Indian man fighting British forces in a remote village. Also with Pugazh,...
Film Shorts
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Kill Your Darlings (R) Daniel Radcliffe stars in this biopic as a teenaged Allen Ginsberg, who falls in love with a fellow Columbia student...
If I Had Legs: Thorny Rose
The main character of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is named Linda (Rose Byrne), though nobody in the film actually uses her...












