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Film Shorts // November 10-16, 2021
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American Sniper (R) Overrated. Bradley Cooper stars in Clint Eastwood’s biography of Chris Kyle, a sniper who recorded 160 confirmed kills in four tours...
Belfast: We the North
Even with his Gaelic name, it’s easy to forget that Kenneth Branagh is not English. He is from Northern Ireland, that Protestant northeastern corner...
Film Shorts // November 3-9, 2021
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Annaatthe (NR) Rajinikanth stars in this Tamil-language film (which is also released in a Telugu version under the title Peddanna) as a village chief...
Spencer: Di Slowly
Why do little girls dream of becoming princesses? Marrying royalty seems like the most exquisite form of misery. This is especially true of the...
Eternals: God’s-Eye View
This was bound to happen at some point, a filmmaker goes from winning Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture to helming a Marvel...
Film Shorts // October 27-November 2, 2021
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Antlers (R) This horror movie starts out so promisingly and ends so limply. Keri Russell portrays a middle-school teacher in a small Oregon town...
Last Night in Soho: Sew Sharp
They were chary with the details about Last Night in Soho leading up to its 2020 planned release and then again before this week....
French Dispatch: What’s the Matter for Kansas?
When I reviewed Nomadland, I remarked on filmmakers who find their homes far away from where they grew up. Wes Anderson is a Houstonian...
Gosh Dune It
Frank Herbert’s epic science-fiction Dune saga was made into a film by David Lynch in 1984, which boasted a superb look but completely failed in...
Film Shorts // October 20-26, 2021
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Becoming Cousteau (PG-13) This documentary by Liz Garbus (All In: The Fight for Democracy) profiles the undersea explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau. (Opens Friday)
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