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: Date
Wide (United States)
Hellboy
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Little
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Missing Link
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Limited (United States)
Mary Magdalene
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A fiercely feminist and proudly revisionist historical drama that offers a powerful and much-needed rebuke to modern Christianity. Enrapturingly beautiful and intensely emotional.
Mary Magdalene
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: By placing this epic journey through Mary’s eyes we can understand the sacrifice as being more than just time and energy. Where Peter sought answers, her choice to follow Jesus was a betrayal to her name.
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: This will surprise absolutely no one, but Yuen Woo-ping can stage the hell out of a fight. The guy is a legend for good reason.
Stockholm
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: While [the comedic] direction appears to do a gross disservice to these characters’ real life counterparts, it does make for a pretty fun movie.
2019 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Captain Marvel
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A Dog’s Way Home
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Dumbo
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Five Feet Apart
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Happy Death Day 2U
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Pet Sematary
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The Public
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Shazam!
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Berserk
The Best of Enemies
The Best of Enemies
- Excerpt: Although dramatically surreal and dripping with ready-made inspiration, The Best of Enemies feels unevenly pat and plays it rather safe without exploring the racially charged obstacles with a more pronounced grittiness.
Breakthrough
Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
- Excerpt: Well, good believers love divine challenges and so does this Breakthrough starring Chrissy Metz.
Diamantino
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
High Life
- Excerpt: Denis’s hypnotic and probing arthouse SF space adventure ‘High Life’ is a refreshingly different kind of out-of-this-world suspense piece whose reflective tension is fueled in its metaphysical mileage.
The Hummingbird Project
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: You often don’t think about why you root for a film’s protagonist. It therefore becomes very glaring when this intrinsic emotional attachment doesn’t exist.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The film isn’t necessarily bad—it’s just over-stuffed with two-plus decades of rewrites. But I lean on the side of praise … barely.
The Mustang
Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: Basing her story on a real-life program that takes place in Nevada and other states, freshman feature director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and a horde of co-screenwriters craft a story about bonding with horses that’s uplifting and refreshingly candid. Clermont-Tonnerre depicts that equine therapy in a way that demonstrates the good horses can do for people without making the process look easy or pat.
Native Son
Unicorn Store
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Its quirkiness can wear out a bit thin, but it has enough charm to carry it through.
Unicorn Store
- Excerpt: Unicorn Store skewers when necessary, without judging those who prefer to keep things sweet.
Unicorn Store
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: This whimsical movie starring Brie Larson and featuring Samuel L. Jackson in a key role surprised me with its unusual casting and heartwarming essence.
Where’s Daddy?
- Excerpt: [A] highly reflective and absorbingly insightful documentary. Where’s Daddy? is gripping and thought-provoking in its serious look at deprived families paying an ultimate price
The Wind
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: A thoughtful and creepy psychological horror film that tackles the loneliness of the old west. Caitlin Gerard carries the film effortlessly.
2018 Films
Aquaman
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Bohemian Rhapsody
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Bumblebee
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Climax
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Mary Poppins Returns
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The Mule
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Stan & Ollie
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Possum
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Possum is an important work of modern horror that feels like it could have been made during any decade since the 1960s. Holness conjures a disturbing view of what child abuse does to an adult later in life, mixing British kitchen sink realism with surreal dark fantasy.
2017 Films
The Man with the Magic Box
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: If you can swallow the big, implausible plot twist, your hundred minutes in Warsaw, 2030 will be well-spent.
