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. 19, 2024
Expanding (United States)
Sasquatch Sunset
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Limited (United States)
The Coffee Table
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With his protagonist clearly in a state of shock, we witness the man carrying the worst burden of guilt imaginable while he continues to delay the inevitable as more and more witnesses arrive for what will be a horrific reveal.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Argylle
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Civil War
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Night Swim
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Sting
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Amar Singh Chamkila
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The American Society of Magical Negroes
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: I’m convinced that debut writer-director Kobi Libii actually had two half-baked ideas for movies and merged them into one.
Arcadian
Kat Hughes @ THN
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Like many good horror films, Arcadian uses its otherworldly premise to examine human behavior.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It leads to some badass moments, but very little emotion. You could pretty much say that about the entire film […] because ARCADIAN is all set-up. [And] in that regard, the film works.
Blue Imagine
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Bolero
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Cabrini
- Excerpt: Begin the mission and the means will come
Challengers
- Excerpt: Challengers is the sexiest tennis movie ever made! Luca Guadagnino’s best film. Zendaya is a tour de force as Tashi Duncan. Such a resilient, intelligent, mesmerizing, and manipulative character.
Chicken for Linda!
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s a wonderful message told with a bottomless wealth of entertainment and gorgeous animation. Add a couple songs making it a quasi-musical and CHICKEN FOR LINDA! proves a compact, lightning-paced and resonant lark.
Damaged
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Damaged is more of a trick than an actual story.
- Excerpt: Damaged is too busy trying to keep us guessing instead of laying the foundation for a real game for us to be involved with and play.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Romanian writer/director Radu Jude’s blackly comic multi-media collage of a film is a caustic commentary on our times… essential cinema for those who like their thoughts provoked. And it’s funny as hell.
Femme
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping…impress with the complexity they bring to the issue of identity, gay bashing and the closeted individuals who engage in it… a strong, stylish and sexy debut that leaves us with a punch to the gut.
The Greatest Hits
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A dumb gimmick gets in the way of a promising story.
In Flames
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: That’s where IN FLAMES is most potent. The blurred line between morality and self-preservation. If you’re trapped in a system that treats you like the enemy, you must resign yourself to the fact that no one else will save you.
Laroy, Texas
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The film might not get as dark as it potentially should after a very effective prologue, but the bleak nature of the finale’s “justice” does what it can to provide closure for the characters and the tone.
Monkey Man
- Excerpt: Monkey Man is a mostly great directorial debut for Dev Patel. A gritty modern take on the tales of Hanuman, the film struggles in the middle but manages to finish strong.
Murder Is Easy
- Excerpt: Ah! Nothing like a fresh whodunit to cleanse the cinematic palette after such a wide-ranging awards season.
The People’s Joker
Pure O
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: Told with a cinema-verité style that juxtaposes the naturalism of la vie quotidian with the all-consuming inner conflict at work, it follows Cooper’s struggles with a steady, unsentimental eye. It makes his breakthrough moments exhilarating, while the vulnerability of absolute honesty with those he loves most takes on an emotional intimacy that is almost too much to bear.
Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Sweet Dreams
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Although it breaks no new ground, Sweet Dreams is an amiable movie that celebrates the power of recovery to turn a person’s life around.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The cause and effect at play on-screen is never quite what the characters anticipate or hope for when they willingly allow themselves to be put into exploitative situations that they believe they can turn the tables on.
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
2023 Films
Shortcomings
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The Gospel of the Beast
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Last Shadow at First Light
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Oasis of Now
Bavner Donaldo @ CInejour [Indonesian]
