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. 12, 2024
Wide (United States)
Civil War
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Sting
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Limited (United States)
Sasquatch Sunset
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Director/editors David, who also wrote and stars, and Nathan Zellner contemplate a year in the life of North America’s most infamous cryptids in a film with humor so natural to its apelike subjects it almost seems plausible.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The First Omen
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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Late Night with the Devil
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Wicked Little Letters
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The Beast
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: [Bonello’s] is a bold idea and gives the great French actress Léa Seydoux the opportunity to really show some range as a married woman in 1910, a house sitting aspiring model/actress in 2014 L.A. and a worker facing an extreme choice in 2044.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Seydoux is fantastic throughout, but even her performance can’t help make that incel plotline feel as real or as dangerous as the [19th century Paris and present-day 2044 threads].
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Unfortunately, the sum is not quite equal to the various parts. Plus, the heavy-handed symbolism throughout proves tedious.
La Chimera
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Alice Rohrwacher (“The Wonders,” “Le Pupille”) seems to pull her films from the very fabric of Italy – its earth, its people and its history…“La Chimera” is a dream scattered amidst the earth and the stars.
Girls State
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: To have [the inequality between girls and boys programs] swirling and still be able to focus on a few personalities is a great success for McBaine and Moss because these girls aren’t going to stay silent about what’s happening.
The Greatest Hits
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: I’m all for movies that are absurd, even nonsensical as long as it fits within the context of the story. That is not what happens here.
- Excerpt: The Greatest Hits is the perfect date night movie. For the guys, there’s time travel and Lucy Boynton. For the girls, there’s a love story and David Corenswet. Now playing in select theaters.
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Love and the search for happiness are at the center of the tale, and there is nothing wrong with that; quite the contrary. But while the overall package has a nice, glossy veneer, the heart and soul of the center is too vague to resonate.
Housekeeping for Beginners
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With his third film, Macedonian writer/director/editor Goran Stolevski proves to be one of the most interesting new voices in cinema, his queer aesthetic an empathetic embrace of humanity with all its quirks and foibles.
Kim’s Video
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The twists and turns are often jaw-dropping while the back-patting and glad-handing always proves a bit suspicious. It’s a joke gone too far mixed with an exorbitant amount of luck to correct a wrong few (if any) even remembered.
Monkey Man
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Patel’s filmography almost charts his path to his first film, combining his hardscrabble life as a “Slumdog” with increasingly fraught experiences working in Indian hotels…
Andrew Wyatt @ Riverfront Times
No Way Up
- Excerpt: No Way Out has its film chills. Though low budget, it grabbed me all the way to the end. .
The People’s Joker
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s impossible not to get swept up in the creativity and sheer chutzpah necessary to get a film like this off the ground, let alone in theaters. No matter your opinion on the final result, it’s undeniably impressive.
Rest in Peace
Dennis Schwartz @ dennis schwartz reviews
- Excerpt: Its anti-climactic and incoherent conclusion failed to enthrall me, as things seemed real until they didn’t.
Spermworld
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Inspired by a New York Times article by Nellie Bowles – for which Oppenheim contributed reporting – titled “The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand,” Spermworld is a perplexing, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes uplifting look at a subculture thriving on the margins of society.
Woh Bhi Din The
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
2023 Films
Monster
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Dusk for a Hitman
Dennis Schwartz @ dennis schwartz reviews
- Excerpt: Differs from the usual hitman film.
