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Dream: One Horse Town

First comes the documentary with a remarkable inspirational story, then comes the inferior fiction version of it headlined by A-list stars. James Marsh’s Oscar-winning...

Riders of Justice: Mads for Revenge

With his drooping eyelids and aquiline nose, Mads Mikkelsen is often typecast by Hollywood as villains — surely you remember him hitting James Bond’s...

Film Shorts // May 12-18, 2021

OPENING   Army of the Dead (R) The latest film by Zack Snyder is about a group of mercenaries who decide to rob a Las Vegas...

Spiral: Sign of the Pig

The original Saw series is a relic of the post-9/11 time when we wanted to watch bastards pay for whatever in the slowest and...

Film Shorts // May 5, 2021

OPENING   Above Suspicion (R) This thriller based on the first American conviction for the murder of a federal agent stars Jack Huston as an FBI...

Wrath of Man: H Is for Heat

Sometimes in life, you just want to see Jason Statham shooting people. My last few movie reviews have required me to be quite serious...

Film Shorts // April 28-May 4, 2021

OPENING   Cliff Walkers (NR) This Chinese spy thriller by Zhang Yimou (Hero) is about a group of agents (Qin Hailu, Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, and...

Truffle Hunters: White Gold

Marcella Hazan was a great expert on Italian cuisine, and I remember reading in her The Classic Italian Cook Book that farmers would forage...

The Best Movies of 2010

I didn’t run this piece in January like I wanted, for reasons involving file conversion that are only going to bore you silly. The...

Film Shorts // April 21-27, 2021

OPENING   Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (R) A big-screen continuation of the anime TV series, this film features the continuing adventures of demon hunter...