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Detective Chinatown 2 (NR) Liu Haoran and Wang Baoqiang reprise their roles as bumbling private investigators in this action-comedy, this time solving a case...
Film Shorts // August 9-15, 2023
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Aporia (R) Judy Greer stars in this science-fiction drama as a widow who’s given a chance to undo her husband’s death in an accident....
Absolutely Fabulous: Passing Fashion
I should start off by saying I’m an Absolutely Fabulous virgin. I had never seen a single episode of the cult 1990s British sitcom...
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (NR) Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary profile of activist Jane Jacobs and her fight against the urban New York City...
Film Shorts
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Akira (R) A movie set in 2019 but released in 1988, Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s anime classic receives a re-release, with voices by Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu...
Further Thoughts on “12 Years a Slave”
As is so often the case with great films, I had more thoughts about 12 Years a Slave than I could get into my...
Phantom Thread: Mr. Woodcock
I’m usually skeptical of artists announcing their retirement when they’re neither terminally ill nor really old. (See: Soderbergh, Steven and Miyazaki, Hayao.) However, I’m...
Film Shorts // August 25-31, 2021
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The Colony (R) Nora Arnezeder stars in this science-fiction thriller as an astronaut on a post-apocalyptic Earth who must decide the fate of the...
Possessor: Some Bodies
I’m trying to avoid the clichés endemic to film critics when I’m talking about Andrea Riseborough, but it isn’t easy resisting the temptation to...
Victim of Circumstance
Sometimes the idea of a movie is more powerful than the movie itself. That’s certainly the case with Circumstance, which won the Audience Award...
