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. 23, 2024
Wide (United States)
Drive-Away Dolls
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Ordinary Angels
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Limited (United States)
Golden Years
- Excerpt: Golden Years sparkles with the effervescence of uncertainty and unpredictability; it goes against our expectations and maintains its steady composure without needing hysterical drama.
Stopmotion
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Morgan uses his experience with stop motion to great effect here, his puppets’ eeriness amplified by sound design and a score by Lola de la Mata that sounds like a squeaky playground swing combined with someone banging slack piano strings.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
2023 Oscar Nominated Shorts
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Argylle
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Bob Marley: One Love
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
The Book of Clarence
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Lisa Frankenstein
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Madame Web
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Bleeding Love
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: BLEEDING LOVE is thus about mistakes made. [It’s] at its best in the last twenty or so minutes once truths are revealed and façades (intentionally worn and not) fall.
- Excerpt: Bleeding Love is a calling card for debut director Emma Westenberg and Clara McGregor.
Cobweb
- Excerpt: Cobweb is a brilliant meta-fiction about the film industry and a marvellously inventive farce. It combines all the different tonal skills of Jee-woon Kim to create a work that both loves cinema but also knows how ludicrous the whole thing can be.
Desire Lines
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Dune: Part Two
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: ‘Dune: Part Two’ further opens the book on the world of Paul Atreides and Arrakis in this towering accomplishment that’s as thrilling as it is stunning to watch, hear, and feel. Witness it on the biggest screen you can find.
Manuel São Bento @ Talking Films
- Excerpt: Dune: Part Two surpasses even the highest expectations, establishing itself as an unquestionable technical masterpiece of blockbuster filmmaking. It warrants comparisons with the greatest sequels in history, easily becoming the new generational epitome of sci-fi epics.
History of Evil
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One
- Excerpt: If you’re a fan of the Tomorrowverse, or any of the DC animated movies then Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One might be something you want to watch. This is the beginning of the end after all.
Perfect Days
Aren Bergstrom @ 3 Brothers FIlm
- Excerpt: This isn’t to say that, with Perfect Days, Wenders is treating slow cinema as therapy, but there is a therapeutic effect to watching this lovely film. The story of Hirayama demonstrates a possible way forward for people overwhelmed by the lack of meaning in the busy routines of their lives.
The Promised Land
The Taste of Things
This Is Me…Now
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: If J-Lo wants to dance in the rain like Gene Kelly, who are we to stop her?
2023 Films
All of Us Strangers
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Anatomy of a Fall
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Godzilla Minus One
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Wonka
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
The Zone of Interest
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Dunki
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Golda
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Golda moves well and keeps things going, even if at times it becomes a bit heavy-handed with its symbolism.
The Last Repair Shop
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Youth (Spring)
- Excerpt: Youth (Spring) is not an expose of garment factory conditions so much as a collective portrait of the people who work in them.
