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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Film Shorts

Happy Feet Two: Heading South

I’m Not There

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More Thoughts on “The Kids Are All Right”

Because The Kids Are All Right played in Dallas before it came here, I was able to see the film three times before I...

Made in England: Power of Two

Last fall I remarked that Martin Scorsese would have made a great film critic. You can see what I was talking about this weekend...

Polite Society: Is This the Ria Life?

In 2021, I reviewed the TV comedy series We Are Lady Parts. That was the creation of Nida Manzoor, but since then, the show...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Grey (R) Liam Neeson stars in this thriller as a member of an Alaskan oil drilling team stranded in the wilderness after their...

Montana Story: Horse Girl

We need to give more consideration to Haley Lu Richardson. The pint-sized 27-year-old has done little besides good work since 2016’s The Bronze, where...

There’s No Place Like Rome

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty picked up an Oscar last week for the Best Foreign Film, so its distributors are re-releasing it after it...

Film Shorts

Opening The Danish Girl (R) A shapeless lump. This biopic of Einar Wegener a.k.a. Lili Elbe, one of the first men to undergo sexual reassignment...
Chris Pine and Keira Knightley prepare for a night on the town with the bad guys in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Ryan’s Hope

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the fifth big-screen adventure of the all-American superspy invented by Tom Clancy, the second one that imagines Jack as...

Mala Day

The latest and certainly the least of the recent 3-D movies, Battle for Terra is directed by Canadian animator Aristomenis Tsirbas, based on an...

Modern Cinema Festival Returns

I learned something interesting while attending last night's screening of Ain't Them Bodies Saints at the Modern. I already knew that Christopher Kelly's Modern...