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End-of-Spring Roundup
Only two movies are opening in wide release this week, and neither of them screened in time for our deadlines. Ex Machina is expanding...
Film Shorts
Opening
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...
Film Shorts
Opening
Child 44 (R) Tom Hardy stars in this thriller adapted from Tom Rob Smith’s novel about a Soviet military intelligence officer in 1953 who...
A Doll’s House
Alex Garland’s first movie as a director is Ex Machina, but he has been around the film business a long time. After his novel...
Lie to Me
You may be surprised to learn that True Story is only the second serious collaboration between James Franco and Jonah Hill, two actors who...
Considering Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Seyfried probably has the least flashy of the four major roles in While We’re Young, but she does well with it anyway as...
Hipster Replacement
I’m so glad Noah Baumbach has lightened up. He spent the back half of the 2000s making a trio of dramedies — The Squid...
Dear John Letter
In this current phase of Al Pacino’s career, when he’s playing broken-down old men with no one to blame but themselves for being broken...
Film Shorts
Opening
The Salt of the Earth (PG-13) Nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders’ film profiles photographer Sebastião Salgado and...
Brett Bentman Goes Big
Five months ago, Fort Worth Weekly mentioned Brett Bentman in a feature story about local filmmakers (“Grappling With the Glitz Machine,” Nov. 5). At...
