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. 23, 2023
Wide (United States)
No Hard Feelings
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Expanding (United States)
Asteroid City
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: In Asteroid City, there are many possible configurations to choose from, but they all lead back to this: the story is the thing.
Limited (United States)
Revoir Paris
- Excerpt: How do you resume normal life after an earth-shattering event? That is the question that drives Revoir Paris (Paris Memories), the story of a woman struggling to piece together missing memories from the night she survived a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro.
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Winocour—whose own brother, Jérémie (to whom she dedicates the film), survived the real-world attacks—is never concerned with the why and how of what happened. Her cinematic eye is squarely on the way in which damaged souls mend their broken hearts and minds. It’s a marvelous study of a vital topic, anchored by a brilliant actress.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Air
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Beau Is Afraid
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BlackBerry
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The Blackening
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Elemental
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Evil Dead Rise
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Fast X
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The Flash
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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Past Lives
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Renfield
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Scream VI
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper”s Reviews
- Excerpt: The story follows the plot of FRANKENSTEIN, with director Story staying closer to the plot of the Shelley novel than either James Whale or Terence Fisher did. Once we get to the middle of the film, however, it no longer seems to be using the plot of the Shelley novel. Ultimately, the viewer then must decide what presentation best fits the Shelley.
The Eternal Daughter
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
Faraaz
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Future
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: This is a world dictated by science and driven by conquest that cannot understand why a promising young woman could throw her life away because it refuses to understand that becoming a murderer was the only job it allowed her to have.
Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Excerpt: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a fun treasure-hunting adventure movie that takes the franchise back to its Nazi-fighting roots. I know this is supposed to be Indy’s final adventure, but I’m sure they can find a way to do more.
Influencer
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: A horrific reality check for those lost in the monetised sauce of the internet’s digital fakery.
The Innocent
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Garrel’s script continually references the art of acting, his own character amusingly the least convincing at pretending…
Lynch/Oz
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Dividing this documentary into six chapters with distinctly different analytical styles makes “Lynch/Oz” feel like an anthology film and, like most anthology films, it is uneven.
Maggie Moore(s)
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: A nifty neo-noir that deftly plumbs the seeping corruption underlying the dull quotidian of a small southwestern city, trading the usual stark contrast between light and shadow for an oppressive sort of omnipresent sunlight that shows everything but reveals nothing.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: If not for the first two-thirds of the romance and last third of the mystery, I’d say the whole enterprise was a dismal failure and waste of quality talent. Because of them, MAGGIE MOORE(S) scrapes by to merely prove a disappointingly forgettable lark.
Sanctuary
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: ‘Sanctuary’ is the pitch-perfect blend of an erotic thriller and a romantic comedy
The Seeding
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I’m not therefore sure there’s much in the way of depth considering the theme itself is so overtly drawn. THE SEEDING’s success is thus dictated by how well you believe Wyndham’s defiance works in the face of Alina’s compliance.
Stan Lee
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: While the documentary doesn’t reveal any insights that hasn’t already been part of public knowledge, its sweet and earnest mood makes the whole experience go down smoothly.
2022 Films
Nanny
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Disenchanted
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper”s Reviews
- Excerpt: DISENCHANTED is the sequel to 2007 ENCHANTED, with Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey returning as the leads, but while some of the humor of the dissonance between the two worlds worked in the original, it does not work here.
A Fine Morning
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
