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: Feb. 16, 2024
Wide (United States)
Bob Marley: One Love
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Madame Web
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Expanding (United States)
The Taste of Things
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Limited (United States)
2024 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: All address serious issues, although the ShortsTV program being released into theaters also includes two honorable mentions, one of which, “I’m Hip,” is sheer entertainment featuring a jazz singing cat
2024 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Ironically, while the 2024 Oscar Nominated documentary shorts include such subjects as censorship and the Taiwanese island that is its first defense against China, they are generally more upbeat than either the Live Action or Animated short selections.
2024 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Three of the nominated live action shorts deal with grief, one humorously so, while another deals with the deplorable state of things for women in today’s America while the last’s main character exhibits a delightful change of heart for the common good.
God & Country
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The movement is insidious and Partland’s documentary is a clarion call for American citizens to awaken to the danger of a very well funded effort to use our democratic system to impose a minority rule that is misogynistic, racist, homophobic and transphobic, a perversion of the meaning of Christianity.
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Welcome to the world of Christian nationalism, a long-simmering movement in the United States that is about as far from the teachings of the New Testament as one can be, currently worshipping a documented conman as its leader.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Argylle
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How to Have Sex
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Lisa Frankenstein
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Bhakshak
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Love and Work
- Excerpt: Filmmaker Pete Ohs’ follow-up to his horror satire Jethica is another delightfully lo-fi genre film, one that takes place in an alternative timeline—“the past of a different future,” according to the film’s narrator—where having a job is illegal and humans spend their days perfecting hobbies instead of producing goods.
Molli and Max in the Future
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Mamet and Athari are as charming as the production design and fully on-board with each chapter’s new metaphor for our current social and political chaos or philosophical punch-line.
The Monk and the Gun
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: Puzzling, surprising, and delightfully incongruous, it encourages us to see things with new eyes, open hearts, and good humor.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The result is a smart, witty, and insightful piece of international cinema that works immensely well for a western audience. There’s so much light and heart and hope that you can’t help but find yourself with a smile on your face throughout.
Out of Darkness
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: Gets to something primal lurking in all of us, and from which none of us has quite evolved.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Yes, it’s another “we were the monsters all along” narrative, but it arrives in a unique package that embraces the nihilism of the concept instead of the hope that might remain despite it.
Ozma
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Ozma is musical, original and inventive: it’s not just the same old tired story about an insomniac toting a telepathic jellyfish around London.
Pictures of Ghosts
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: We can see the ghosts of Filho’s own past pervading his prior films, including this revelatory look into the mother and city which helped shape him.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s an essay film about his life and career as much as a document of a city. It’s an ode to art, ephemera, and metamorphosis.
Suncoast
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: I’m sure Laura Chinn’s heart was in the right place, and I have no doubt that much of what we witness came from real life. But the final product does not gel cohesively – the pieces work separately rather than as one.
2023 Films
American Fiction
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American Symphony
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Barbie
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Nimona
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Perfect Days
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