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Kristian Lin

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Wallis Island: Re-Harmony

The same week that Sinners opens, another movie about the power of music opens, but just at the AMC theaters at Grapevine Mills and...

Sinners: Let the White One In

Sinners begins with a prologue showing us how different cultures regarded their powerful storytellers, including the African griots. Writer-director Ryan Coogler doesn’t make the comparison,...

Film Shorts // April 16-22, 2025

  OPENING   Alappuzha Gymkhana (NR) This Indian film is about a group of students who find careers by competing in their college’s boxing team. Starring Naslen,...

Hour of The Amateur

About half an hour into The Amateur, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is lurking inside a Parisian apartment building where a terrorist (Barbara Probst) lives....

Film Shorts // April 9-15, 2025

  OPENING   Akaal: The Unconquered (NR) Gippy Grewal writes, directs, and stars in this historical drama about a group of Punjab warriors defending themselves against an...

Luckiest Man: No Pressure

The odd historical drama The Luckiest Man in America takes place on the TV game show Press Your Luck. The original version of that...

Film Shorts // April 2-8, 2025

  OPENING   Anjila (NR) Anjila Tumbapo Subba stars in this movie based on her own life as the starting goalkeeper for Nepal’s women’s soccer team. Also...

Minecraft Movie: Blockheads

What’s become clear in the last decade or so is that any intellectual property can become a great movie if it’s treated with enough...

Death of a Unicorn: Poke My Heart

Last summer’s Cuckoo was the only horror movie that had scientists breeding human-cuckoo hybrids to enact large-scale mind-control, and Death of a Unicorn also...

Film Shorts // March 26 – April 1, 2025

  OPENING   Audrey’s Children (PG) This biographical drama stars Natalie Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, the founder of Ronald McDonald House. Also with Jimmi Simpson, Brandon...