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: Jul. 26, 2024
Wide (United States)
Deadpool & Wolverine
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Limited (United States)
Dìdi
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: “Dìdi,” feels a lot more genuine [than “Nai Nai & Wài Pó”], steeped in the complex issues of an adolescent son of Taiwanese immigrants in an all female household.
- Excerpt: Dìdi’s warm return to the late ’00s is an uncanny flashback for the right audience, but one that may leave you regretting your own pop culture-centric takeaways from the past.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
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The Bikeriders
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Daddio
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Fly Me to the Moon
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Kinds of Kindness
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Longlegs
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Oddity
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A Quiet Place: Day One
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Twisters
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Young Woman and the Sea
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Brief History of a Family
- Excerpt: “Brief History of a Family” is a masterful film, both cinematically and contextually, and a truly impressive debut from a filmmaker who seems to have the abilities of a seasoned veteran.
The Convert
Nadine Whitney @ InSession Film
Dandelion
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Green Border
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The film is all the more haunting for director of photography Tomek Naumiuk’s digital b&w documentary style shooting stylized with the gothic horror of tree branches reaching toward the sky like twisted fingers and swamps waiting to swallow the defenseless.
The Inheritance
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: The intriguing premise never reaches its potential.
Janet Planet
- Excerpt: Alice Baker’s debut directorial delivers layers and contemplative performances from Nicholson and Ziegler but Janet Planet‘s slowness and isolated nature ultimately suffocate its poignancy, leaving its protagonists wandering for closure.
Kakuda
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Kingdom: Return of the General
- Excerpt: “Kingdom: Return of the General” continues in the same, rather high quality of the previous movies, while has enough elements, particularly regarding the permeating drama, to make it stand out.
My Spy: Eternal City
- Excerpt: Bautista looks tired, and the script doesn’t help, getting him beat up over and over. This sequel is a superfluous and unnecessary IP extender, which might be okay if it wasn’t creating a problem for parents who have to explain to eight-year-olds why they should not see it.
Operation Undead
- Excerpt: Despite the fact that it definitely goes a bit too strong on the melodrama, “Operation Undead” is an excellent zombie movie, both for the action and horror, but also for its anti-war and historic comments that definitely deem it a stand out in the category.
Retake
- Excerpt: All in all, there is a certain level of amateurism, low-budget and one-man-show sense here, that deems “Retake” a film not exactly for everyone. However, for those who manage to look beyond the movie’s shortcomings, Nakano’s intelligence and the particularly smart meta approach definitely impresses in a rather hopeful debut.
Sing Sing
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Colman Domingo delivers an insightful performance, conveying the vulnerability of a defeated man but with the confidence of one who knows his self-worth.
Sisi & I
- Excerpt: Starring Sandra Hüller as Irma, with Susanne Wolff assuming Sisi’s crown, Sisi & I provides an intriguing look at female rebellion and unrequited love during an era when pushing back against feminine stereotypes practically amounted to a death sentence.
Six in Paris
- Excerpt: Six in Paris—now available on Blu-ray in a new 2K restoration from Icarus Films—provides an intriguing time capsule of a city and a cinematic movement, even as it occasionally suffers from repetitiveness in tone and perspective.
Treasure
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Video Review: Pierce
The Watchers
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Strip everything away and this is a solid if generic thriller that delivers the goods on a purely formal level. Add back some of the flavor and you see where Ishana can go if given the time and room to grow.
Widow Clicquot
- Excerpt: A defining moment is when she explains that she wants to rotate the crops because the vines need to struggle. That moment and her literal final word tell us that one of the world’s most delicate and cherished drinks is the result of struggle, one that all who embraced considered worth it.
2023 Films
A Long Shot
Wolf Hiding
- Excerpt: Viewers will probably come to “Wolf Hiding” for the story and particularly its inspiration, but will stay for the action, in a film that will not disappoint any fan of crime action.
2022 Films
Onpaku
- Excerpt: Although the story could have been presented a bit better, but the combination of disorientation, horror, gore, noir and social commentary definitely carries “Onpaku” beyond any shortcomings, in another excellent job by Fujii.
