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Considering Toni Collette

Two months ago, I saw Toni Collette tear up the screen as a grieving mother who sees supernatural forces preying on her family in...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Blindspotting (R) Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal co-write and co-star in this thriller about a parolee who witnesses a white cop shoot an unarmed...

M.I.6

Watching Mission: Impossible — Fallout made me feel like I was seeing a 56-year-old man’s midlife crisis dialing 911. I can’t be the only...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Damascus Cover (R) Jonathan Rhys-Meyers stars in this spy thriller about an Israeli agent in the Cold War years who goes undercover into Syria....

Film Shorts

OPENING  The Cakemaker (NR) This Israeli drama stars Tim Kalkhof as a German baker who travels to Israel to locate the family of his dead...

Sorry to Bother You: White Courtesy Phone

Much as I hate the Trump presidency, I love the wave of African-American satire in response to it. After the delirious highs of Get...

Whitney: Didn’t She Almost Have It All

Sometimes I write up obituaries of famous people on this site, and when they’ve died in unfortunate circumstances, I get angry responses. “What an...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Ant-Man and the Wasp (PG-13) Paul Rudd returns for this sequel to the superhero movie, replete with a new flying partner (Evangeline Lilly). Also...

Animal World: House of Cards

I just saw this Chinese film called Animal World at AMC Grapevine Mills, and while it's not much good as a movie, it poses...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Animal World (NR) Han Yan’s Chinese adaptation of a Japanese manga comic stars Li Yifeng as a children’s entertainer who harbors wild fantasies of...