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Lee (2024) starring Kate Winslet

Lee (2024)

At first glance, Lee is a somewhat formulaic biopic centered on one person’s experiences during the horrors of World War II… but the film wastes little time establishing that...

Linda
Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)

Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)

Man, being a tween sucks. Whether you grew up in the era of social media, or in pre-historic times (like myself), the years just before high school can be...

Linda
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Already it seems like all Marvel movies are blender-made, as characters get rebooted, spun-off, and conveniently thrown into other multiverses and timelines so that even character deaths become meaningless....

Linda
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

If you were already dying like Lupita Nyong’o’s character Samira, is it strange than an alien invasion would make you feel alive again? A hospice patient, she barely makes...

Linda
Thelma (2024)

Thelma (2024)

A friend of mine laughed when I called Thelma a slow-motion action movie, but it’s true! The biggest moment of nail-biting tension doesn’t involve a gun (though there is one),...

Linda
The Bikeriders (2023)

The Bikeriders (2024)

I love the idea that writer-director Jeff Nichols was so transfixed by a book of 1960s counterculture photojournalism that he was inspired to bring the photos back to life...

Linda
Tuesday (2023)

Tuesday (2023)

Death taking the shape of a filthy bedraggled macaw—who shows up to take life with the fanning of a wing—is a fascinating, kind of beautiful image. As Death appears...

Linda
Young Woman and the Sea (2024)

Young Woman and the Sea (2024)

Just a week ago, I “swam” in Puget Sound (note the liberal quotes) in mid-May for a solid ten minutes. I was quite pleased with myself for my endurance...

Linda
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

I was not a fan of Mad Max: Fury Road. I remember leaving the screening with a bit of a 3D headache, partly due to the skip-a-frame herky-jerky cinematography,...

Linda
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

I have to admit, this movie had to slowly win me over (and it had plenty of time to do that with its 2-1/2 hour runtime). In the three...

Linda
Civil War (2024)

Civil War (2024)

The story arc of Civil War is super-simple: A carload of war journalists (led by a weary, haunted Kirsten Dunst) needs to get from point A to point B...

Linda
The First Omen (2024)

The First Omen (2024)

From the mood-setting opening scene featuring Charles Dance’s guilt-ridden priest getting an efficient, bloody comeuppance, I felt like my face went through a progressive range of emotions during The...

Linda