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OPENING   The Carnivores (NR) This drama stars Lindsay Burdge and Tallie Medel as a lesbian couple whose marriage starts to come apart under the strain of their dog’s grave illness. Also with Frank Mosley, Vincent James Prendergast, and Jason Newman. (Opens Friday in Dallas) The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do

The new film from Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour will show June 5-8 at the Belcourt

Mila Al-Zahrani in a scene from The Perfect Candidate. (Music Box Films via AP) Published June 03. 2021 5:02PM  By JOCELYN NOVECK, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit “All politics are local,” the saying goes. That’s a guiding principle in “The Perfect Candidate,” in which a doctor runs for town council purely to get the muddy dirt road in front of a medical clinic paved. But that saying comes from American politics. This is Saudi Arabia....

OPENING   American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (R) This drama is based on the real-life trial of the radio broadcaster (Meadow Williams) who broadcast Nazi propaganda to American soldiers during World War II. Also with Al Pacino, Thomas Kretschmann, Lala Kent, Jasper Polish, Carsten Norgaard, and Mitch Pileggi. (Opens Friday in Dallas) Funhouse (NR) Jason William Lee’s horror film is about a group of eight celebrities forced to fight for their lives while competing on what they believe ...

After giving fans a glimpse into the road and home life of Billie Eilish, director R.J. Cutler is returning with a new documentary about Martha Stewart.

On Memorial Day Weekend, beloved Fort Lauderdale art-house cinema will screen its first films since COVID lockdowns, beginning with buzzed-about thriller 'A Quiet Place Part II'

Film Shorts // May 19-25, 2021 OPENING   Counter Column (PG-13) This Christian drama is about a drug dealer (Chris Gonzales) who tries to escape his life by joining the army. Also with Nathan-Andrew Hight, Michael Kaiser, Zane Castor, Ella Haslett, Madeleine Martinez, Diego Medina, and Lars Nielsen. (Opens Friday at Movie Tavern Hulen) The Dry (R) Eric Bana stars in this thriller as a federal agent who returns to his drought-stricken hometown for a funeral and has to reckon with a decades-old ...

A doctor faces a number of obstacles as she runs for town council in the film drama "The Perfect Candidate," which provides a look at life for women in Saudia Arabia.

Film | May 15, 2021 | “Girl power” is too simplistic of a term to fully capture the energy filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour builds into her films. Still, on a surface level, the phrase applies. In 2012’s Wadjda, the first feature-length Saudi film made by a female director, Al Mansour captured a girl’s desire for freedom in the face of traditionally conservative thinking. (A solid trio of viewing would be Wadjda, the Dardenne brothers’ Cuties.) After her subsequent films, 2017’s Napp...

Save this story for later. How many crimes have been committed before “The Dry” begins? One barbarous act we know about for sure: a man named Luke Hadler (Martin Dingle Wall) has been found dead, with a shotgun beside him, outside the town of Kiewarra. (It’s a fictional place, but the movie, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jane Harper, and directed by Robert Connolly, was filmed in the Australian state of Victoria.) Back at Luke’s house are the bodies of his wife ...