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Essay: 'Solo' is the third best 'Star Wars' movie
Photo: Lucasfilm/Disney Studios
I am learning to forgive myself for being wrong. Here’s an example: when I first saw 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story in the theater, I dismissed it as a misfire, and I was not alone in that opinion. At the ti...
150 Word Review: 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' (2026)
Photo: 20th Century Studios
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a “legacy sequel,” which is another way of saying “cash grab,” and there’s nothing wrong with making a few hundred million bucks revisiting characters and plots from beloved movies de...
150 Word Review: 'Undertone' (2025)
Photo: A24
There are, surprisingly, many great movies about radio, like Oliver Stone’s prescient 1988 adaptation of Eric Bogosian’s play Talk Radio, starring a dynamite Bogosian spitting into a mic. The low-budget horror movie Undertone i...
150 Word Review: 'The Stranger' (2026)
Photo: Gaumont
Director François Ozon’s gorgeous, mostly faithful black-and-white adaptation of Albert Camus’ absurdist novel The Stranger, about a young, seemingly soulless Frenchman, is in dialogue with Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 neorealis...
150 Word Review: 'Slap Shot' (1977)
Photo: Universal Pictures
Slap Shot was an unexpected, late-career role for aging icon Paul Newman, the intense, All-American actor with gorgeous blue eyes. He plays a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, homophobic, fifty-something coach of a fla...
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