Grow Omaha Flicks

★ ★ ½ The Senior is a film based on a true story about Mike Flynt, a 59-year-old who finds himself still eligible to play one last season of football at his alma mater. In his senior year, he was kicked off the football team and expelled after one too many fights off the field. He was technically qualified to complete his final year of eligibility at Sul Ross State University…

★ ★ ★ A Big Bold Beautiful Journey takes us on a quiet, understated adventure that brings two people together, forcing them to confront their traumatic pasts and failed relationships. It forces them to look at how they each bring old wounds into new relationships. This often leads to self-sabotage…

★ ★ One Battle After Another is the latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson about a paranoid, has-been revolutionary trying to raise a daughter and keep her safe while living off-the-grid. Anderson has built a career on offbeat topics, crafting compelling stories out of the unlikely. Here, he swaps…

★ ★ Him is described as a football horror film but presents itself more as a cautionary tale about the high cost of fame with enough fantastic conspiracy theories to make the back teeth of anyone wearing a tinfoil hat tingle. It’s the kind of film that grinds out a thesis throughout the story, always edging hard towards a profound point. Unfortunately, it never quite gets there…

★ ★ ★ ½ Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale serves as the culmination of the international television and film phenomenon that first aired in 2010. Let’s get this out of the way right now—yes, you really do need to be a fan of the series to enjoy it. And yes, it’s worth your journey through the series…

★ ★ The Long Walk is based on a Stephen King novel written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. As Bachman, he wrote Roadwork, where a grieving father has a mental breakdown and snaps against the government bureaucracy that aims to demolish his home to pave a highway…

★ ★ ½ The Conjuring: Last Rites is the third sequel in The Conjuring series that also spawned several spinoffs. It tries to fuse emotional family drama with demonic horror—sometimes it clicks, other times the tension simply leaks out. This is supposed to be a sendoff film, billed as the case that ended the careers of…

★ ★ ★ Caught Stealing, Darren Aronofski’s latest, is a gritty crime thriller that feels like it could have unspooled at a 1990s indie festival—raw, unpolished and daring. Films from this era leaned gritty, defying traditional formulas, and in doing so, arguably reshaped cinema’s future. Though shot digitally…

★ The Roses is a remake of the 1989 film War of the Roses, which is based on Warren Adler’s novel by the same name. Domestic violence isn’t really a subject that yields comedic material, and it would be a very fine line to write a successful script for the sake of laughs. The Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner film….

★ ★ ★ ½ Relay is a neat little espionage thriller, taut with tension and driven more by drama than by high-stakes action. That’s not to say there isn’t action in this film, but only when the story requires it—nothing less, nothing more. It’s a well-crafted story, briskly paced, with characters that feel lived-in and authentic…