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March 14, 2026
‘Drag’ SXSW Review: Come for the Petty Theft, Stay for the Unexpected Serial Killings
At this fraught moment in our culture, it comes as a small surprise that a movie called “Drag” is not about the terrors of “gender ideology,” nor the apparent threat to Western civilization of peop...
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March 14, 2026
‘My Brother’s Killer’ SXSW Review: A Macabre Real-Life Murder Goes Unsolved for Decades
A very cold case from 1990 gets reheated in “My Brother’s Killer.” Rachel Mason’s documentary probes the mysterious murder that year of 25-year-old William Arnold Newton, who had appeared in severa...
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February 6, 2026
‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ Film Review: Even The Stabbing Feels Perfunctory in Weak Wrap to Horror Trilogy
Those stalwarts holding out stubborn hope that Renny Harlin’s “Strangers” trilogy would end with more bang than whimper might choose The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” as their theme song after sit...
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January 29, 2026
‘Shelter’ Film Review: Jason Statham Versus the World Again, Scottish Edition
Taking a breather from the imperiling of Gerard Butler — their latest collaboration “Greenland 2: Migration” opened just three weeks ago — director Ric Roman Waugh puts Jason Statham through a simi...
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January 23, 2026
‘Clika’ Film Review: Mexican American Music Trends Get Hollywood’s Attention in Otherwise Uninspired Drama
A first wade into feature filmmaking for L.A.-based indie Mexican American music label Rancho Humilde, “Clika” recalls the low-budget films that first cashed in on the newfangled rock ’n’ roll craz...
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