Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.
Opening: Nov. 1, 2019
Wide (United States)
Harriet
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Motherless Brooklyn
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Terminator: Dark Fate
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Limited (United States)
Adopt a Highway
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Logan Marshall-Green’s directorial debut is a modest effort that is elevated by a committed and endearing Ethan Hawke performance.
The Irishman
The Irishman
Light From Light
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Writer/director, Paul Harrill, takes a refreshing empathetic and gentle approach to telling a ghost story. Erin Ireland and Jim Gaffigan are terrific.
2019 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Ad Astra
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Brittany Runs a Marathon
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Countdown
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The Current War
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Dolemite Is My Name
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Jojo Rabbit
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Joker
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The Lighthouse
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Parasite
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Auggie
- Excerpt: The self-same story could have been told without any science fiction.
The Bestowal
- Excerpt: Steven and Death have a long (and often tedious) metaphysical discussion about questions that intrinsically have no answer.
Black and Blue
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Harris gives this her all and she’s easy to root for, but hers is a fine instrument in service to a blunt object.
Black and Blue
- Excerpt: Deon Taylor and Peter A. Dowling seem eager to please the audience, maybe a little too eager. Some of the surprises aren’t terribly surprising because the filmmakers hint they’re coming. Naomie Harris and Tyrese Gibson are already easy to cheer for. We don’t need any reminders.
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
- Excerpt: It’s an ambitious and gutsy film that’s bound to knock the wind out of anyone who sees it.
Burning Cane
The Cat and the Moon
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Alex Wolff’s directorial debut covers familiar territory, but he explores it with confidence and with a strong eye for character.
The Day Shall Come
- Excerpt: Watching the film one is never sure what group will be skewered next by Chris Morris’ bitter, toxic wit.
Frankie
Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: The new family drama from Ira Sachs is so stale, any melodramatic wail, or even a sniffle, would be a welcome break to the introspection.
Heroic Losers
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: In a far-flung town in the province of Buenos Aires, many things are about to die out.
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
It Takes a Lunatic
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Wynn Handman is the master here , revealed on screen for us to cheer. The scenes show actors giving praise for theater projects he did raise.
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Josh Taylor @ www.forgetfulfilmcritic.com
- Excerpt: Reboot simply rehashes the same tired in-jokes from the View Askewniverse and crams in every last cameo from same in a cynical cash-grab. The humor is crass and uninspired which makes it, subsequently, hopelessly dated.
The Kill Team
- Excerpt: The Kill Team’ takes on the toxic masculinity of war, but any real insight is AWOL
The King
- Excerpt: The King is the muddiest and bloodiest take yet on Henry V.
Matthias & Maxime
- Excerpt: Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime is easily his sexiest film yet. It’s also one of his strongest.
No Safe Spaces
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A free speech documentary that raises a few worthwhile issues, without ever stopping to question whether its cries for common sense are really all that sensible.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Alan Mattli @ Maximum Cinema [One German, one English]
- Excerpt: A quietly passionate, unspeakably romantic, rigorously clear-eyed, deeply moving masterpiece.
Saudi Women’s Driving School
- Excerpt: Documentary ‘Saudi Women’s Driving School’ goes hard on girl power moments, but its attempt at objectivity feels artificial
Scales
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Well-crafted, magical fable with a compelling contemporary feminist message.
Synonyms
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …easier to admire intellectually than respond to emotionally…No matter how mysterious some of Yoav’s actions are, Tom Mercier commands our attention…with a passionately defiant projection of his director’s vision.
The Two Popes
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
Vitalina Varela
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
2018 Films
Amazing Grace
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
Checkered Ninja
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.
You Have the Night
Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: After leaving the ship on which she works, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to go but home. The shipyard has filed for bankruptcy, leaving many workers out of work. A storm comes; one life is lost.
