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. 2, 2023
Wide (United States)
The Boogeyman
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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Limited (United States)
Lynch/Oz
- Excerpt: Philippe’s essay film is both dead-serious about its subjects and playfully exploratory.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
BlackBerry
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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Kandahar
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The Little Mermaid
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BlackBerry
- Excerpt: Matt Johnson’s exploration of the rise and fall of BlackBerry is funny and incisive without the need for company valorization.
Cracked
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Although I never got that chill down my spine as I do watching a really scary horror flick, there wasn’t a moment where I wasn’t fully invested with what was happening.
House Party
- Excerpt: While it’s not as good as the original, House Party (2023) is a solid movie. The cameos are plentiful and Kid Cudi elevates the comedy to another level.
Influencer
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The result is a well-executed thriller wherein we’re allowed to check our compassion at the door. There’s no one to therefore root for, so we bask in the potential carnage to see who (if anyone) escapes alive.
The Mother
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Actress Jennifer Lopez plays one bad mother– (Shut your mouth). But I’m talking about the mother (Then we can dig it)
Plastic Earth
- Excerpt: Some things are designed to last forever: music, art, literature—hopefully—relationships. But garbage—notably plastics, worse still: microplastics—threaten to end the world as we think we enjoy it, one water bottle at a time.
Reality
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: How much of that subterfuge is real and how much is inferred by Satter remains unknown, but that fact only adds to the intrigue. Everything is filtered through a prism of bias.
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Starling Girl
- Excerpt: Adolescence is a time of changes, and being a young woman in a fundamentalist Christian family doesn’t make it easier to navigate.
2022 Films
All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Bad Guys
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Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin
- Excerpt: Dreams, memories and producers
