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Seeking Mavis Beacon
NR 104 min.
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Doc searches for the face of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
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The 4:30 Movie
R 87 min.
Kevin Smith comedy about an Eighties teen trying to sneak into an R-rated comedy
¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
NR 88 min.
South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone try to save a Denver landmark
The Critic
R 101 min.
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Ian McKellen plays a theatre critic willing to stab a few backs in 1930s London
Dan Da Dan: First Encounter
NR 75 min.
First three episodes of the anime adaptation of the manga series by Yukinobu Tatsu
The Killer's Game
R 104 min.
When a top hitman is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take a hit out on himself
Speak No Evil
R 110 min.
Blumhouse remake of the Danish hit horror about two couples who hit it off on vacation
Will & Harper
R 116 min.
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Lifelong friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, a newly transitioned trans woman, roadtrip across America
First-Run Movies
Alien: Romulus
R 119 min.
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Fede Alvarez speed runs through earlier Alien films in this uninspired sequel
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
PG-13 104 min.
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Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel is a wasted opportunity
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
The Front Room
R 94 min.
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Warped A24 drama about an old lady terrorizing her daughter-in-law
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
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
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Napoleon Dynamite Live 20th Anniversary (2004)
Listen, you’re either a wonderful person who loves Napoleon Dynamite, or you don’t like it and I doubt all your life choices. There’s not a lot of middle ground when it comes to this mid-Aughts masterpiece. The only surprising thing is that it’s been 20 years, and you’re old. But never too old to enjoy a night of Tina and tots with a trusty trio of stars. That’s right, Napoleon himself (Jon Heder) will be here with Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) and Pedro (Efren Ramirez) to dish on too-hot heads and throwing that football over them mountains. Watch the movie and party with the stars at the Paramount. Speaking as someone who’s toured all the filming spots in Preston, Idaho, trust me. This is gonna be good. – Cat McCarrey Read a full review of Napoleon Dynamite.Thu., Sept. 12 -
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Zombie (1979)
George A. Romero may have invented the modern zombie, but it was Lucio Fulci who … well, he didn’t perfect it, but he made the walking undead far grosser, more predatory, and sadistic than they had ever been before. He also lacked the genius from Pittsburgh’s fascination with subtext, and using zombies as a metaphor for modern life. Instead, for his 1979 unlicensed Dawn of the Dead sequel Zombie aka Zombi aka Zombi 2, he pillaged the setting of the old pre-Romero voodoo flicks like I Walked With a Zombie and used their tropical beauty as the background for eye-slicing, grave-busting gruesomeness, and the first-ever fight between an amputee zombie and a very heavily sedated shark. – Richard WhittakerThu., Sept. 12 -
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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 Big Bend (2024)
To quote that philosopher of American cinema Joe Bob Briggs, the drive-in will never die. No act of outdoor exhibition valor shows that more than the way the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In has kept the lights on after not one but two break-ins this summer. So there’s no more suitable movie to watch there than Brett Wagner’s The Big Bend, a gutsy indie road trip to far, far West Texas. – Richard Whittaker Read a full review of The Big Bend.Aug. 29-Sept. 12
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Tampopo (1985)
Lauded as the first “Ramen Western,” Tampopo’s bright, quirked-up vignettes serve the perfect inaugural week vibes for Hyperreal Film Club’s new brick-and-mortar theatre on Chicon. Accompanying Gregg Araki’s Nowhere, Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain, and Friday the 13th: Jason Lives, it’s a slate of the best of Hyperreal’s programming: a little creepy, a little sexy, but above all, fun. Tampopo’s main storyline follows a truck driver who helps a ramen shop owner perfect her noodle craft. The food-centric vignettes that swirl around it are what make the film, most memorably, an erotic exploration of the art of the egg-kiss.– Lina FisherThu., Sept. 12
