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The Best Supporting Performances of 2020
I did some of my year-end film coverage when the year actually ended, but now that 2020 is officially over in cinematic terms, I’m...
Heavy Seas
Don’t confuse The Finest Hours with These Final Hours. The latter is an Australian movie about the apocalypse that I reviewed last spring. The...
Film Shorts
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Cesar Chavez (PG-13) Diego Luna makes his directing debut with this biography starring Michael Peña as the civil rights activist and labor leader. Also...
Film Shorts
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American Sniper (R) Bradley Cooper stars in Clint Eastwood’s biography of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. Also with Sienna Miller,...
La Mission Is Missin’
Watching La Mission is a real whiplash experience. Writer-director Peter Bratt’s second feature follows intense, emotionally resonant scenes with moments that are so ham-fisted...
Booksmart: Wildin’ Out
A little more than 11 years ago, Superbad came out, and amid the general appreciation for that classic of teen raunch, some people fairly...
Film Shorts // September 4-10, 2024
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Don’t Turn Out the Lights (R) Andy Fickman (She’s the Man) writes and directs this horror film about a group of friends who must...
Film Shorts
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Ip Man 3 (PG-13) Donnie Yen reprises his role as the kung fu master who tries to keep Hong Kong from being taken over...
Larry Stanley Returns Home
Larry Stanley is an avowed Christian whose religion informs his filmmaking, but he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a Christian filmmaker. “I don’t...
Daydream Believer
A highly likable movie that comes up short of its aims, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty bears little resemblance to the James Thurber...
