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. 28, 2024
Wide (United States)
A Quiet Place: Day One
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Limited (United States)
Daddio
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: “Daddio” features a conversation you’ll want to overhear, Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn calibrating their performances masterfully over the course of an hour and a half.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
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The Bikeriders
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Civil War
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Dune: Part Two
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The Exorcism
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The First Omen
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
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Hit Man
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Inside Out 2
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Love Lies Bleeding
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Thelma
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Animalia
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Animalia’ is many things: a drama about a woman in peril, a critique of modern Moroccan society, a science fictional fantasia about the end of the world, a spiritual meditation. And yet, I think of it primarily as an existential story.
The Boy in the Woods
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: The forest is an isolating setting, but also a place the boys can play and let loose their imaginations.
Evil Does Not Exist
Aren Bergstrom @ 3 Brothers Film
- Excerpt: The movie shapeshifts, similar to how a forest is so inviting in day, so haunting at night. It’s unpredictable and the only thing you’re absolutely sure about is its beauty.
Family Portrait
- Excerpt: Kerr’s depiction of a family hovering on the edge of an existential crisis is enigmatic almost to a fault; fortunately, the dreamlike visuals and swirling sounds of Family Portrait cast a spell on the viewer that only grows more powerful as the film grows more difficult to comprehend.
Fancy Dance
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …works best illustrating how cultural rituals help maintain family ties and how even tribal police fail to give priority to the epidemic of missing Native American women.
Federer: Twelve Final Days
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It doesn’t lean into the idolatry aspect to make it about celebrity or the tennis itself to make it about the sport. TWELVE FINAL DAYS is just a final press tour. [It’s] solely for the fans.
Freydís and Gudrid
- Excerpt: Shot in glorious black and white (so appropriate for a story set in the early second century), very sad to report that his tale of Icelanders/Greenlanders—in operatic form no less—disappoints more than it succeeds.
Ghostlight
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Captures the emotional journey of a family facing unresolved trauma through the magic of theater.
Green Border
- Excerpt: Green Border should raise international awareness of what’s happening to these refugees on the European border; for that alone, it’s an important bit of filmmaking. But importance doesn’t automatically confer greatness, and all of the film festival ovations in the world don’t necessarily equal change.
Hummingbirds
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Maybe the camera’s presence therefore inherently infers upon their “performances,” but neither the candor nor the fun is ever compromised. And it looks great too.
Kinds of Kindness
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Lanthimos’s themes about control and the need for love and belonging become increasingly difficult to care about…is never boring, quite the feat given its 165 minute running time, but I for one doubt I’ll ever want to watch it again.
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A mad monstrosity of a movie: absurdist, enigmatic, perverse. Lanthimos’s typical grotesque humor is on full display. Yay for a film that actually attempts to capture how insane the world is today?
LSD 2: Love, Sex aur Dhokha 2
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Maharaj
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Old Oak
- Excerpt: The performances of Turner and Mari carry the film, with the performances of the many supporting roles existing on a continuum from fairly well-round rounded to outright caricature.
Sacramento
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: An indie character-driven comedy about self-discovery.
Trigger Warning
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: There is a fine line between awesome and awkward, but the film doesn’t manage to locate it.
2023 Films
Elemental
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Godzilla Minus One
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The Iron Claw
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May December
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Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
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20,000 Species of Bees
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It conveys the calm and warmth of summer holidays, and uses said context to develop a complex narrative, which manages to put us in the shoes of a girl who tries to communicate to her family that she does not feel like what she is.
The Beast
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
The Beast in the Jungle
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
Esper X Private Detective Agency – Searching For Good-Bye –
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: As such, in the end, “Esper X Private Detective Agency – Searching For Good-Bye -” emerges as a mixed bag, since its narrative approach is interesting, but would probably suit a film not of the sci-fi/detective category better. Definitely deserves a watch for the characters and actors though.
Requiem
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Filled with issues and very few traits, “Requiem” is a movie that would probably only appeal to completionists of low-budget J-horror films.
Toyou Brothers
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: The ambition of Momiji Ueki and his crew is evident throughout “Toyou Brothers”, which is obviously large at scale, including the fact that it lasts for 125 minutes. At the same time, it becomes obvious that the budget did not match their ambition, resulting in a film that is quite faulty, and only enjoyable sporadically
