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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

PG-13   104 min.  

Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel is a wasted opportunity

New Reviews

The Front Room

R   94 min.  

Warped A24 drama about an old lady terrorizing her daughter-in-law

His Three Daughters

NR   103 min.  

Estranged sisters gather at their father's deathbed

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

The Paragon

R   85 min.  

Micro budget New Zealand psychic warfare urban fantasy

Red Rooms

NR   118 min.  

Disturbing courtroom drama with a sickening psychological twist

First-Run Movies

AfrAId

PG-13   84 min.

Blumhouse horror about an overenthusiastic digital assistant

Alien: Romulus

R   119 min.  

Fede Alvarez speed runs through earlier Alien films in this uninspired sequel

Between the Temples

R   111 min.  

A widower cantor and a septuagenarian bat mitzvah student forge an unlikely friendship

The Big Bend

NR   103 min.  

Things get weird on a family vacation to the West Texas desert

Blink Twice

R   102 min.

In her directorial debut, Zoë Kravitz delivers a distinctive, post-#MeToo thriller

City of Dreams

R   96 min.

A Mexican boy is trafficked across the border and sold to a sweatshop

The Crow

R   111 min.

Comic book reboot about a musician who is murdered, resurrected, and ready to seek all kinds of revenge

Deadpool & Wolverine

R   127 min.  

Marvel mash-up has a blast

Despicable Me 4

PG   94 min.  

Former supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain-League agent Gru returns

Dìdi

R   93 min.  

An Asian American wannabe skate punk comes of age in 2008 California

The Forge

PG   123 min.

Faith-based film about a young man trying to turn his life around

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.  

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.  

Mostly sensitive look at domestic abuse, based on Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel

MaXXXine

R   104 min.  

Triumphant third installment in Ti West's cinematic slasher-horror series

1992

R   96 min.  

The L.A. riots are the backdrop for this forgettable heist picture

Reagan

NR   135 min.

Dennis Quaid portrays the actor-turned-president

Slingshot

R   109 min.  

Psychological thriller about astronauts trying to keep a grip on a trip to Saturn’s moon

Strange Darling

R   96 min.  

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree

Stree 2

NR   135 min.

Women are mysteriously abducted by a headless entity

Twisters

PG-13   122 min.  

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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    Special Screenings

    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 Whittaker
    Tue., Sept. 10
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    Special Screenings

    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 Fisher
    Sept. 6-12
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    Special Screenings

    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 

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