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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
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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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Querelle (1982)
The only film that I know of that argues tops are gayer than bottoms – and you know what? I understand where the titular Querelle is coming from. Is topping the new praxis for all those attempting to queer the world? Hmmm. While I doubt this will be the topic of discussion at Saturday’s screening, enjoyers of cinema queerte will find much to chew on with Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film. Gay sailors, big penis statues, and games of cat and another, extremely horny cat, all supplemented by an in-person conversation with author/filmmaker Navid Sinaki (Medusa of the Roses). Since the screening’s part of AFS’s new collab series, Paper Cuts, with Alienated Majesty, you can also peruse the small-press bookshop’s pop-up pre- and post-film. – James ScottSept. 7 & 11 -
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The Store (1983)
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman is interested in how things tick – training his unobtrusive, observational camera on the inner workings of institutions – and he’s refreshingly plain about it. Just look at some of his titles: Law & Order. Central Park. Welfare. Aspen. Model. Providing a terrific opportunity to see some of the less celebrated works of the prolific filmmaker (still making movies into his 90s), Austin Film Society’s new Essential Cinema series, Frederick Wiseman: Eight Systems, kicks off Tuesday with 1983’s The Store, about Neiman Marcus’ flagship department store in Dallas. – Kimberley JonesSept. 3, 7 & 8 -
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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
