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: Jun. 16, 2023
Wide (United States)
The Blackening
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Elemental
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The Flash
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Limited (United States)
Asteroid City
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: the type of film that will only become richer with additional viewings. Anderson reflects on grief, romantic love, parent/child relationships and artistic expression all while entertaining us with his signature deadpan absurdist comedy.
Maggie Moore(s)
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: While there is therefore little mystery, the easygoing charm and occasional thrills are often enough.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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A Thousand and One
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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Afghan Dreamers
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: What happens to the girls, who end up becoming famous throughout Afghanistan, and what happens to their dreams, is the content of this amazingly important and touching film.
Against All Enemies
All Man: The International Male Story
- Excerpt: I don’t know if International Male invented the metrosexual or not, but it’s not far-fetched to say that it played a big role in giving men the freedom to be peacocks in a way that has long been expected of women.
Aloners
- Excerpt: Gong Seung-yeon’s Aloners is the first feature film to explore what it means to be one of this living-alone people, and does so in a sensitive, understated, and slow-moving style.
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: With great practical makeup and effects to up the horror quotient, Story’s film does a really good job pulling FRANKENSTEIN into the twenty-first century. I do think the genre conventions get in the way of fully mining the psychology of the updated concept, though.
Blue Jean
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: McEwen delivers an unforgettable performance as a woman caught between the love of her partner and the acceptance of her career when one could very well erase the other in an instant.
Breaking the News
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Good journalism just might save the world.
Brooklyn 45
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Nothing that happens on-screen is solely to provide the audience a resolution. It’s about pushing his characters against the wall to see whether they bend or break.
Chasing Chasing Amy
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: By putting [CHASING AMY’s] production and impact and failings in context with Sav’s personal awakening, his documentary supplies a deep dive the likes of which couldn’t happen if a deep dive was the initial goal.
Close to Vermeer
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: For those who didn’t have the great fortune to attend in person, we have Raes’ insider look at just what the folks who mounted Essential Vermeer think makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.
FInal Cut
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: These walking corpses are full of life.
Flamin’ Hot
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Because while it may not be particularly memorable or unique, FLAMIN’ HOT makes good on its promise to bring a lesser known rags to riches tale of Latino exceptionalism to the masses in a self-deprecatingly comedic fashion.
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: It’s cinema as catharsis in the best possible way.
The Gullspång Miracle
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: One thing is guaranteed, however: you will debate the enigma of The Gullspång Miracle long after it is over.
Gumraah
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
A Handful of Water
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Zapf shows us that when we work together we can start in a positive direction.
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: A lot of people these days on the Internet and elsewhere seem to have an unquenchable thirst for celebrity biographies. In this regard, HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES is just feeding that appetite. Here the biographer is telling the history of Robert Englund, who in his fifty-year career is best known for the role of Freddy Krueger.
The Maiden
Aren Bergstrom @ 3 Brothers Film
Past Lives
Sarah Marrs @ LaineyGossip.com
- Excerpt: Celine Song’s Past Lives is a work of remarkable delicacy and humor about fate, connections, and the narratives we event for our lives.
Reality
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Interesting docudrama with a compelling performance from actress Sydney Sweeney.
Seire
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Park Kang makes his feature debut with the creepiest fear of fatherhood movie since David Lynch’s “Eraserhead.”
Squaring the Circle
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: This isn’t a documentary on album design. Corbijn’s assignment was Powell and Thorgerson’s partnership. So, rather than gain insight into the industry, the film’s worth is in its captivating stories about the phenomenon that was these two men.
2022 Films
The Act of Reading
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: THE ACT OF READING is a documentary about MOBY-DICK. Director Mark Blumberg flunked his high school English class junior year because he didn’t read MOBY-DICK or do any of the papers assigned, and now Blumberg observes and talks to several teachers about MOBY-DICK, including Janet Werner, the teacher who flunked him.
Dear Mr. Brody
- Excerpt: In 1970, a young woman named Renee delivered a package of drugs from her dealer-boyfriend to Michael James Brody Jr. in Scarsdale, New York. Evidently, wide-eyed young Brody was the drug for her because she didn’t leave, and within a month, they were married.
The Human Trial
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: This is an extraordinarily well made, suspenseful film that tracks the human research project through six years of human trials. Susan Metzger, editor extraordinaire, gets high marks.
