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Scarlett and Black

When Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff died in Avengers: Endgame — uh, spoiler alert — I thought, “She can’t be dead, because there’s going to be...

Zola: Y’all Wanna Hear a Story

To prepare for watching Zola, I did something I’ve never done before: I read an entire Twitter thread. Was it ever worth it. In...

Film Shorts // June 30-July 6, 2021

OPENING   The Boss Baby: Family Business (PG) The sequel to the 2017 animated film features adult versions of the brothers (voiced by Alec Baldwin and...

Everything’s F9

My problem with the Fast and the Furious series was always that the movies were never silly enough. If you’re going to become a...

Film Shorts // June 23-29, 2021

OPENING   Lansky (R) Harvey Keitel stars in this biopic as elderly mobster Meyer Lansky, looking back on his career as the head of Murder, Inc....

Film Shorts // June 16-22, 2021

OPENING   All Light, Everywhere (NR) This documentary by Theo Anthony (Rat Film) focuses on implicit biases, especially when applied to the use of police body...

Rita Moreno, Sparks: Behind the Music

This week, the main new things at the multiplex are two documentaries about two very different musical careers and the ups and downs they’ve...

Film Shorts // June 9-15, 2021

OPENING   Censor (NR) Niamh Algar stars in this British horror film as a movie censor who starts to lose track of reality while investigating her...

In the Heights: Dream a Little Dream

Previously, we had a big, splashy musical film for Spanish speakers. It was called Coco, and it was good. However, that was set in...

Shiva Baby: Danielle in the Lion’s Den

Whenever you think that Jewish humor is tapped out, someone else comes along and hauls something new up out of the mine. Shiva Baby...