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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
PG-13 104 min.
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Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel is a wasted opportunity
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The Front Room
R 94 min.
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Warped A24 drama about an old lady terrorizing her daughter-in-law
The Killer's Game
NR 104 min.
When a top hitman is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides take a hit out on himself
First-Run Movies
Alien: Romulus
R 119 min.
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Fede Alvarez speed runs through earlier Alien films in this uninspired sequel
Between the Temples
R 111 min.
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A widower cantor and a septuagenarian bat mitzvah student forge an unlikely friendship
Blink Twice
R 102 min.
In her directorial debut, Zoë Kravitz delivers a distinctive, post-#MeToo thriller
The Crow
R 111 min.
Comic book reboot about a musician who is murdered, resurrected, and ready to seek all kinds of revenge
Despicable Me 4
PG 94 min.
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Former supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain-League agent Gru returns
Harold and the Purple Crayon
PG 90 min.
The beloved children's picture book is mined for a live-action family film
Inside Out 2
PG 96 min.
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The inner life of now-teenager Riley gets complicated when Anxiety takes a turn at the wheel
It Ends With Us
PG-13 130 min.
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Mostly sensitive look at domestic abuse, based on Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel
MaXXXine
R 104 min.
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Triumphant third installment in Ti West's cinematic slasher-horror series
Slingshot
R 109 min.
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Psychological thriller about astronauts trying to keep a grip on a trip to Saturn’s moon
Strange Darling
R 96 min.
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Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree
Twisters
PG-13 122 min.
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Pale imitation of what made the original such an unexpected smash of a disaster movie
You Gotta Believe
PG 104 min.
Inspirational story about a Little League team that dedicates the season to one teammate's ailing father
Special Screenings
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Gaza’s Eyes
Even as their world burns, students in Gaza are picking up their cameras to tell original stories and depict their lives. Even more astoundingly, they are still able to get those short films out to the world, and in 2023 the ConnectHER Film Festival curated six of those shorts, all giving insight into the lives of young women under occupation and bombardment. Now, AFS Cinema presents that program, complete with a post-screening Q&A with Watermelon Pictures founder Alana Hadid and ConnectHER founder Lila Igram. This is a free screening: Please RSVP in advance at AustinFilm.org. – Richard WhittakerTue., Sept. 10 -
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Paris, Texas (1984)
Autumn is the time for settling into a comforting nostalgia, a pleasant low-grade melancholy that will carry you through the colder months – making the shift to spring all the sweeter. And what better film is there to provoke ambient melancholy than Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders’ heart-wrenching epic of lost love and desert-wandering? Starring the most disheveled man in the world (Harry Dean Stanton) and the most radiantly blond woman in the world (Nastassja Kinski), Ry Cooder’s windswept slide guitar score draws you in and never lets go. – Lina FisherSept. 6-12 -
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The Terminator (1984)
In a different world, Miller Drake finishes directing Piranha II: The Spawning, and we never hear of James Cameron except as a special effects guy for B-movie legend Roger Corman. But Drake gets fired by bullying producer Ovidio G. Assonitis, who replaces him with Cameron and then fires him two and a half weeks later. Cameron, so disgusted by the experience of having no control over his set, makes his zero-budget sci-fi slasher on completely his own terms – and changes action cinema forever. Against his wishes and much as he has tried to disown it, Piranha II is listed as his first directing credit, but his Arnold Schwarzenegger-led film of a merciless robotic killer is his real debut. Catch this incredible new 4K restoration from the original 35mm negative, with new Cameron-approved Atmos sound mix. Plus, happy to report, Cameron and Drake remained friends. – Richard Whittaker Read a full review of The Terminator.Sept. 10-11
