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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
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Absolution (R) Liam Neeson stars in this thriller as a gangster trying to reconcile with his estranged children. Also with Ron Perlman, Frankie Shaw,...
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...
