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: Aug. 9, 2024
Wide (United States)
Cuckoo
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It Ends with Us
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Limited (United States)
Good One
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: an uncommonly insightful accumulation of small moments that build to a reckoning when the young woman maintaining the balance between two middle-aged men is failed by both. . This may be the most profound hike since Kelly Reichardt’s “Old Joy.”
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
In a Violent Nature
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Twisters
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Anime Analysis: Delicious in Dungeon
- Excerpt: “Delicious in Dungeon” is definitely an excellent title, both in terms of context and artform. At the same time, though, for people who search more mature content in all levels, as in the case of this reviewer, the series has very little to offer.
Bookworm
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Thankfully, both Wood and Fisher refuse to let the script’s wild swings get in the way of their charming and endearing performances. The two have a wonderful rapport in their role reversal.
Crumb Catcher
- Excerpt: Chris Skotchdopole’s bleak carnival ride of failure is an American nightmare and panic attack. You’ll never forget Crumb Catcher.
Dead Dead Full Dead
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: DEAD DEAD FULL DEAD is a lark that doesn’t try to be more. We’re in it less to find the murderer’s identity than we are to see what wild event will occur next.
The Dead Thing
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzmoviereviews
- Excerpt: A dark and tense horror pic about a toxic singles LA dating scene.
Dìdi
- Excerpt: It’s hella hard being thirteen – Sean Wang’s Dìdi captures it all with honesty. One of the year’s best dramatic comedies.
The Fabulous Four
- Excerpt: Distinguished older actresses get cast in simple-minded comedies about old friends having silly adventures that make the lightest-weight beach read seem like Remembrance of Things Past. “The Fabulous Four” follows in the unfortunate tradition of the “Book Club” movies, “Summer Camp,” and “80 for Brady,” with an EGOT-full of brilliant talents mired in antics that “The Golden Girls” would consider too ridiculous.
The G
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It’s a fantastic premise that provides Dickey a perfect showcase to remind audiences why she’s such a sought-after commodity in Hollywood. How it all unfolds is sadly too often on-the-nose.
Hell Hole
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: [Arguing] to keep the specimen alive inside an unwilling host perfectly parallels the ongoing abortion issue. It’s a fantastic layer of subtext that gives what is ultimately a low-budget creature feature a lot more merit beyond cheap thrills.
Infinite Summer
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: While INFINITE SUMMER might be the best looking Llansó film of the three I’ve seen, it’s also the most confounding at face value. But that’s also part of the appeal.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Three
- Excerpt: In the end, the Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Trilogy should have been cut down into one long movie instead of a 3-part cash grab.
Libertad
- Excerpt: Libertad is structured like Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years in that it spends most of its running time building up a picture of fairly ordinary lives, then delivers a real kicker at the very end, the import of which is told on the face of one of the characters rather than through direct exposition.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare took a true story and turned it into something so outlandish and cartoonish that it makes one doubt that it is remotely based on a true story. Even that could be forgiven if it were fun and exciting.
Párvulos
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: PÁRVULOS gets extremely dark as a result. The descent to all-out carnage is unrelenting as the body count increases and the tone turns from hopeful delusion to bittersweet grief.
Sebastian
- Excerpt: Portrait of the writer/sex worker as a changed young man
The Shakedown
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: A bonkers black comedy that celebrates family values with a body count.
Sing Sing
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: The film presents a dramatization of the great work done by the organization Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), which brings arts programs into prisons. If RTA’s real-life results are anything like what we see here, then it should be in every prison in America.
Sorry, Not Sorry
- Excerpt: It’s no joke
The Tenants
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [A memorable finale] is where the true horror begins because all the frustrations he’s laughed off to this point force him to wonder if he’s been the [pariah] this whole time.
Trap
David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Despite the promising plot that loses the tension to be an edge-of-your-seat experience to pull everything off, you gotta hand to Josh Harnett’s performance to let this be considered a genuine guilty pleasure from the filmmaker.
War Game
- Excerpt: It is chilling. And then, when we find out who he really is and what he’s really planning, it gets downright terrifying.
The Way We Speak
- Excerpt: How timely indeed that this literal debate film arrives during real life clashes between right wing Christians and freedom-wanting people of all persuasions.
2023 Films
Robot Dreams
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Chicken for Linda!
- Excerpt: Chicken for Linda! is a unique animated film that offers up a different experience for kids by immersing them in French culture.
Jawan
- Excerpt: As with the majority of Indian action blockbusters, “Jawan” is a film that demands from the viewer to throw logic from the window and just sit and have fun, of which the movie definitely offers aplenty, on a number of levels.
2022 Films
Kantara
- Excerpt: Although definitely over the top, “Kantara” emerges as a film well-written, directed, acted and visually impressive, in a truly entertaining package that even justifies its 148 minutes.