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A Different Man
R 112 min.
Full Review
Sebastian Stan plays an actor with neurofibromatosis who regrets undergoing plastic surgery
Lee
R 117 min.
Full Review
Underwhelming biopic of the underappreciated war photographer Lee Miller
First-Run Movies
Blink Twice
R 102 min.
Full Review
In her directorial debut, Zoë Kravitz delivers a distinctive, post-#MeToo thriller
The Forge
PG 123 min.
Faith-based film about a young man trying to turn his life around
Inside Out 2
PG 96 min.
Full Review
The inner life of now-teenager Riley gets complicated when Anxiety takes a turn at the wheel
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
Never Let Go
R 101 min.
Supernatural horror stars Halle Berry
Reagan
NR 135 min.
Dennis Quaid portrays the actor-turned-president
Speak No Evil
R 110 min.
Blumhouse remake of the Danish hit horror about two couples who hit it off on vacation
Transformers One
PG 104 min.
CG-animated origin story about how Optimus Prime and Megatron fell out
Twisters
PG-13 122 min.
Full Review
Pale imitation of what made the original such an unexpected smash of a disaster movie
Will & Harper
R 116 min.
Full Review
Lifelong friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, a newly transitioned trans woman, roadtrip across America
Wolfs
R 108 min.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt play rival fixers forced to work together on a tricky job
Special Screenings
Film
Museum of Home Video Presents: The Post Punk & Britpop Show
Oasis are back, but they’re not the only lads who led the second British Invasion. Curated by Los Angeles-based archivists the Museum of Home Video, this 90-minute mixtape (mix-VHS?) traverses the great alternative music of the 1970s to 1990s, from Siouxsie and Killing Joke to Suede, Blur, and Elastica. In reality, it’s not just the UK represented here – Iggy, Chrome, and other Yankees get their 15 minutes in this transatlantic musical retrospective – but they aren’t calling it Britpop Fall for nothing. [Editor’s note: Carys is the only one calling it Britpop Fall.] Bring your parkas. – Carys Anderson
Sun., Sept. 29
Film
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
The “best Batman” debate rages still, with Snyder freaks stumping for Batfleck, Burton boys high on the current Keaton-aissance, and Nolan lovers still going gaga over the gritty and grim Bale. Sorry to say that this argument is basically coughing baby vs. hydrogen bomb: the late Kevin Conroy, voice of Batman in the animated series and throughout the Arkham Asylum games, blows those other bats outta the cave. Don’t believe me? Check out this animated classic while it’s screening at Alamo, then. Harkening to his Forties roots, this Batman tale has him delving into his past in ways deeper than a strand of broken pearls – all animated in the gorgeous Art Deco-esque style of Batman: The Animated Series. – James Scott Read a full review of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
Sept. 20-25
Film
Been There Presents Home Free (2024)
It’s always special when a movie comes home, but home means something really special for this Austin-made bittersweet comedy from UT grads Aaron Brown and Lenny Barszap. Home Free is inspired by their real experiences as undergrads when they became friends with the Professor, a charming man of intellect, kindness, and wisdom who was experiencing homelessness. That friendship was a quick education in how people can drop out of society so fast and yet retain their value as human beings – and now they’ve retold that story as a touching college comedy that’s equal parts Animal House and The Lady in the Van. Join post-screening Q&As with the cast and crew, who are putting their money where their mouths are, as part of the proceeds go to The Other Ones Foundation, organizers of the Been There music festival, to help people experiencing homelessness and unemployment. – Richard Whittaker
Through Oct. 11
Film
Close Your Eyes (2023)
Spanish cinema contains some of the most eerie, beautiful, and passionate offerings in film history, for the most part criminally underseen by mainstream American audiences, aside from the great Pedro Almodóvar. Víctor Erice should be known on par with Almodóvar, having directed Spirit of the Beehive, a lyrical 1973 reflection on the Franco era through a child’s eyes, which launched the career of Ana Torrent, the magnetic actor who went on to star in surrealist master Carlos Saura’s Cría Cuervos, and in adulthood, Alejandro Amenábar’s terrifying Thesis. Close Your Eyes sees Torrent star in Erice’s swan song, released just last year, which aptly follows an aging filmmaker recounting the memories of his final, unfinished project. – Lina Fisher
Sept. 23 & 29
SPACES
Film
Michael (1924)
As you have already guessed from the headline, this is not a queer reappraisal of Nora Ephron’s John Travolta-starring angel flick Michael. No: This is an exactly 100-year-old silent German expressionist romance between a painter and his model. “We’ll ooh and aah at the German Expressionism,” WLV writes in their event copy, “marvel at just how gay things were a century ago, and maybe cry a tiny bit about gay loneliness… together!” For all the streaming-pilled media babies in the audience who might quake when confronted with a silent film – buck up, baby. Few things stink as much as a queer philistine. – James Scott
Sun., Sept. 29