Kristian Lin
Conclave: Election Season
Well, why don’t they make more movies about electing a pope? The procedure involves a small number of powerful men from all corners of...
Film Shorts // October 23-29, 2024
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All Will Be Revealed (NR) This German comedy stars Harald Schrott as a man who returns to his hometown looking for his long-lost love....
We Live in Time: Scrambled Orders
We Live in Time is a romantic weeper with a gimmick: It tells its story out of order. There are solid reasons for movies...
Die With a Smile
The sequel to the 2022 horror hit, Smile 2 begins spectacularly, in a way that might make you wonder if you’ve gone into the...
Film Shorts // October 16-22, 2024
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Allswell in New York (R) This comedy is about three Nuyorican sisters (Liza Colón-Zayas, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Daphne Rubin-Vega) navigating middle age together. Also...
Saturday Night: The Show Must Go On
Pauline Kael once described a film she reviewed as “coitus interruptus going on forever,” and that phrase came to mind when I was watching...
Apprentice: Apt Pupil
Last year I wrote that Sebastian Stan is best when he’s playing guys who are weak, small, and insecure. The word must be spreading,...
Film Shorts // October 2-8, 2024
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Average Joe (PG-13) Eric Close stars in this Christian drama as a Marine-turned-high school football coach who fights to preserve his team’s right to...
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
I didn’t weigh in on 2019’s Joker when it came out because I didn’t see it until the end of that year for awards...
Different Man: Face Time
Some actors have a face that you can’t forget, and of nobody is that truer than Adam Pearson. The London native has neurofibromatosis, which...
