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: Apr. 7, 2023
Wide (United States)
Air
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Paint
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie
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Limited (United States)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Daniel Goldhaber has followed the classic heist movie formula replacing thieves with eco-terrorists…there is something dispassionate about the proceedings as we watch everything click into place.
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Talk about truth in advertising, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is in fact about blowing up a pipeline!
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
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John Wick: Chapter 4
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The Lost King
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods
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MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Adam Driver’s intensely focused, utterly unironic performance is the only saving grace of this movie of few ideas and little suspense, mystery, or excitement. There aren’t even that many dinosaurs.
Rick Aragon Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews [Rick Aragon]
Acidman
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Church delivers one of his best performances as a gentle yet unpredictably scatterbrained crackpot with an intense desire to be heard, but it’s Agron who steals the show with an emotionally charged thaw from guarded uncertainty to compassionate relief.
a-ha: The Movie
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Add numerous conversations about image, evolution, and mistakes and the film provides an informative portrait that excels despite its lack of stereotypical Drama. As they say, no one cares about the arguments but them. The songs are what get remembered.
Boston Strangler
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It might not reach [the heights of ZODIAC or SPOTLIGHT] due in part to the continued mystery surrounding the murder spree, but it maintains intrigue thanks to an effectively determined Knightley.
Champions
Rick Aragon Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews [Rick Aragon]
Enys Men
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: If there’s anything I can take from the experience, it’s this undefined historical aspect existing between the lines of the inert images overtly presented atop it. Because while striking, the film itself feels as superficial as its spirits.
Fist of the Condor
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
Fugue
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
Full Time
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: This relentless, heart-in-your-throat, ticking-clock thriller about precarious single-motherhood could not be more timely or more intimate. As real, and as recognizably stressful, as the genre gets.
Gaslight
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Giraffe
- Excerpt: Giraffe is a slow, meditative film that echoes the way of life Dara is documenting, one far removed from the stresses and strains of modern suburban and urban life.
Reggie
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Smoking Causes Coughing
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Dupieux writes his characters as vessels to tell wild tales, each one an excuse to create an anthology of bloody laughs that we assume didn’t quite have the legs to become full-fledged features themselves.
Sometimes I Think About Dying
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Space Oddity
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s a cute dramedy with effective performances. And what the film lacks in narrative surprises, it more than compensates with heart.
Summoning Sylvia
Derek Deskins @ Edge Media Network
- Excerpt: Summoning Sylvia is an enjoyable time with a captivating crop of characters; just don’t expect any of it to scare you.
Tetris
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: In tone, style, and execution, this plays way more like a political thriller.
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: An educational history lesson injected with zaniness and pixilated animations. However, the didactic tone ultimately takes over, and the movie strangely feels like homework.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: While it’s based on a true story, Jon S. Baird’s TETRIS is still all about entertainment. The whole plays like a BRIDGES OF SPIES sibling directed by Adam McKay.
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Tetris is a raucous good time. It also has more on its mind than how seven geometric game pieces might fit together.
2022 Films
Black Adam
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Women Talking
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Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone
Rick Aragon Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews [Rick Aragon]
- Excerpt: Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone…may be the Citizen Kane of vanity projects.
2021 Films
Last Film Show
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
