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. 14, 2023
Wide (United States)
Mafia Mamma
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The Pope’s Exorcist
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Renfield
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Limited (United States)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Anyone who regards Pang as a footnote in Beatles history as his companion during drunken carousing in L.A. with Harry Nilsson is in for a surprise.
Rare Objects
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: It’s overstuffed and often jarring. But it’s also honest and unassuming, never insipid or sentimental, with a rough power, a generous spirit, and performances that are warm, wise, and perceptive.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Air
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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Cocaine Bear
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Creed III
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
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Enys Men
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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John Wick: Chapter 4
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
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Paint
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Rye Lane
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Scream VI
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie
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Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Kings of the World
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
Leda
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s definitely not the sort of thing you’d want to walk into blind off the street, but those already interested in Greek mythology and poetically abstract films should at least appreciate the effort if not the whole package.
One Day as a Lion
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The fun factor cannot be undervalued [regardless of any issues inherent to genre or budget]. It leads to a lot of comical verbal pissing contests and, perhaps surprisingly, a lot of heart.
Pilgrims
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: This is a film about the psychological scars of places, objects, and people. And it doesn’t shy away from the complexity of those scars extending beyond just the victims’ loved ones.
The Portable Door
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s just twisty enough to keep adults invested while remaining silly enough to hold the attention of any children too.
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
- Excerpt: Long before Kris Jenner coined, trademarked, and monetized the term “momager,” but after the term “co-dependent” was first used by Alcoholics Anonymous, we see in the two-part documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” Teri Shields insisted on control over every detail of her daughter’s life.
Ride On
Róise & Frank
- Excerpt: Peter Robertson’s cinematography includes judicious aerial shots to complement the more intimate images of the village, giving us a perspective that just could be heaven along with modest, lived-in settings. The exceptionally evocative score from Colm Mac Con Iomaire gently expands the storyline, with just a couple of simple ascending notes shifting the tone at the first significant encounter between the title characters.
Showing Up
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: an examination of all the ways everyday life, and to some degree self-sabotage, impinges on the pursuit of artistic creation…Michelle Williams and Hong Chau make for a marvelous pairing, working together like a Newton’s cradle.
Sick of Myself
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Simulant
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: [T]he film doesn’t try to simplify the intricacies of the treatment of simulants, leaving it to audiences to decide which side, if either, is more valid.
Summoning Sylvia
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: By allowing preconceptions and lies to dictate these situations rather than open conversation, the friction builds out of control in a self-perpetuating cycle of perceived bigotry. Looks can be deceiving.
Tori and Lokita
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: this is one of [the Dardennes brothers’] best, a heartbreaking and, hopefully, galvanizing film about the horrific exploitation of immigrants … they have surpassed themselves with the performances they have coaxed from young Pablo Schils…and Joely Mbundu
2022 Films
All That Breathes
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The Banshees of Inisherin
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The Fabelmans
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A Man Called Otto
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Nope
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Pinocchio
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The Son
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Brian and Charles
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: BRIAN AND CHARLES is expanded from a 2017 12-minute film, and serves as evidence that some shorts do not expand well. The plot has almost nothing to do with the premise (an eccentric character builds a robot), which has become more of a MacGuffin.
Give Me Pity!
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Subtly (and sometimes not-so-subtly) nightmarish and always unpredictable, ‘Give Me Pity!’ is a surreal showcase of female insecurity, acted out on a disco stage where glamour fades into mockery.
Soft & Quiet
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: All at once, Soft & Quiet tackles racism, as well as the role many white women play in upholding white supremacy, and how white women use toxic masculinity to help patriarchy operate to its fullest, best extent.
Unrest
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
