Kristian Lin
Wicked: Fo’ Shiz
I’ll admit I was skeptical when I heard that they were breaking up the film version of Wicked into two movies. Like most Broadway musicals...
Film Shorts // November 20-26, 2024
OPENING
All We Imagine As Light (NR) The winner of the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this Indian drama stars Kani Kusruti as...
Emilia Pérez: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Trans musicals are officially a thing now. For years, Hedwig and the Angry Inch had the field to itself. Since then, it’s been joined...
Real Pain: Polonaise
I wasn’t all that impressed with Jesse Eisenberg’s directing debut, the teen drama When You Finish Saving the World. His second movie as director,...
Film Shorts // November 13-19, 2024
OPENING
Albany Road (PG-13) This drama stars Renée Elise Goldsberry as a woman forced to share a ride with her ex-fiancé’s mother (Lynn Whitfield). Also...
Memoir of a Snail: Shelled
We need to have a moratorium on movie protagonists named Grace. To be clear, I have nothing against that name per se. It’s a...
Heretic: American Pie
A couple of decades ago, I was growing impatient with Hugh Grant. I found him guilty of giving the same bumbling, stammering performance in...
Film Shorts // November 6-12, 2024
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Appudo Ippudo Eppudo (NR) This Telugu-language film stars Nikhil Siddharth, Divyansha Kaushik, Satya, Sriram Reddy Polasane, and Rukmini Vasanth. (Opens Friday at Cinemark Tinseltown...
Anora: Put a Ring on It
The first rule of dating a Russian oligarch is: Don’t ever ask where their money comes from. The title character of Anora breaks this...
Film Shorts // October 30 – November 5, 2024
OPENING
Absolution (R) Liam Neeson stars in this thriller as a gangster trying to reconcile with his estranged children. Also with Ron Perlman, Frankie Shaw,...
