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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

OPENING   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

OPENING   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...

Dinner with Jonathan Fielding

Jonathan Fielding is taking a well-deserved break after the recent conclusion of his theater company’s season. Harbor Stage Company near Cape Cod presents only...

Outrun: Closing Time

The Outrun borrows a tactic from the 2018 meth drama Beautiful Boy in that it tells its story out of order deliberately to imitate...

Film Shorts // October 2-8, 2024

OPENING   Blink (PG) Daniel Roher and Edmund Stenson’s documentary is about a Canadian family who travel to see the world’s natural wonders before their children...