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: Jan. 25, 2019
Wide (United States)
The Kid Who Would Be King
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Serenity
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2019 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Glass
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An Acceptable Loss
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: An Acceptable Loss is a film that thinks it’s deep and profound when, in reality, it’s incredibly shallow.
The Bouncer
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: The Bouncer is a simple, but effective crime film that features a compelling, understated performance from Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Close
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: An intriguing female-driven thriller directed and co-written by Vicky Jewson. Don’t worry, guys, the action scenes are also very exciting.
Don’t
Frank Ochieng @ Screen Anarchy
- Excerpt: Don’t Come Back from the Moon is a small-sized affecting coming-of-age tale with a big scale heart and thought-provoking conviction. Thoroughly probing and perceptive, the conscious cow does not need to jump over this heart-breaking Moon.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Designed specifically for those who have a long-term investment in the characters and story.
Io
Shelagh Rowan-Legg @ ScreenAnarchy
Rust Creek
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Henry Dunham’s twisty, dialogue heavy chamber play is a taut psychological thriller that upends our expectations, pulling the rug out from under us in its final moments.
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: It’s a taut and precisely constructed thriller that shines the spotlight on a group of terrific character actors.
2018 Films
Anna and the Apocalypse
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Destroyer
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The Favourite
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Green Book
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The Grinch
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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The Mule
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Overlord
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The Predator
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A Simple Favor
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The Sisters Brothers
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Vice
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Capernaum
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The plight of the powerless – children, the poor, undocumented immigrants – in [Labaki’s] home country must be a cause close to her heart because you can feel her passion in every frame of her film.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Slice-of-life and stream-of-consciousness, this is unlike any documentary before about what it’s like to be poor and black in America. RaMell Ross is an important new voice in American cinema.
Hanagatami
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This nearly three hour epic about the wasted youth of Japan’s war years adapted from Dan Kazuo’s 1937 novel is both a moving tribute and the type of phantasmagorical experience one would expect from the director of 1977’s “Hausu.”
The House That Jack Built
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The House That Jack Built won’t please everybody. For fans of von Trier, as well as lovers of horror who feel it’s a discredited genre, this film is a masterpiece.
Instant Family
Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Fostering interest.
Johnny English Strikes Again
Vadim Grigoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
Kin
Vadim Grigoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a moving and marvelous look at an artist and his inspirations through decades
