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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, and Lynn Rapoport. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. OPENING The Awakening In 1921 England Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a best-selling author...

Grant Peabody checks out the horror career of its zombie-obsessed director, George A. Romero. Before George Andrew Romero came along, zombie movies were pretty tame affairs. The walking dead were pretty boring, actually, just shambling old drunks who...

Sonia Nazario wrote about a Honduran boy who came to the United States in search of his mother. (Random House Sonia Nazario first introduced the world to Enrique through a series of Pulitzer Prize winning articles for the Los Angeles Times and then...

The term “legend” is frequently tossed around with the carefree abandon of a Frisbee on a Spanish beach. However, there are certain times where it also seems inadequate to praise the true giants of their genre. And so, myself and Simon Catling were practically...

Animals are more compassionate than they are given credit for. They are sensitive creatures who feel things that we all do: love, happiness, sadness. Here’s 24 stories that show just how much animals experience emotion, and how they’re really...