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: Mar. 15, 2024
Wide (United States)
Arthur the King
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One Life
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Expanding (United States)
Love Lies Bleeding
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Rose Glass’s (“Saint Maud”) gritty, sweaty, lesbian pulp neo noir is the very opposite of a sophomore slump, her second film, also about a relationship between two women, a confident, mind-blowing, American revenge tale laced with sex, violence and even a few laughs.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Book of Clarence
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Dune: Part Two
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Madame Web
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Cinequest ’24: The Island Between the Tides
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With a run time of three hours, An Pham’s film definitely qualifies as slow cinema, but his long, deliberate takes are mesmerizing and reinforce his themes of faith, family and nature.
Kung Fu Panda 4
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This one is full of action, a bar brawl at the Happy Bunny Tavern a highlight as the building itself teeters atop a cliff, its owner, Granny Boar (voice of Lori Tan Chinn), an homage to “Kung Fu Hustle’s” Landlady.
Monkey Man
- Excerpt: From John Wick to Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee movies to the Ramayana, Patel poured his fascinations into his frenetic fable. Monkey Man finds itself in the final round, however, landing combo after bloody combo as it ascends towards actually reaching its wild-eyed ambitions.
Pictures of Ghosts
Shayda
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: “Holy Spider’s” Zar Amir Ebrahimi gives a performance that is alternately anxiety-ridden and joyful while also giving us the Iranian woman’s point of view missing from 1991’s “Not Without My Daughter”
Stopmotion
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Unusually psychologically astute and utterly unnerving as it digs into the enigmas and anxieties of artistic creation. Style is substance in this challenge to the very concept of an “animated movie.”
Suncoast
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: These are people trying their best to navigate an impossible ordeal while falling prey to the momentary satisfaction of transferring their pain onto each other. And it unfolds beautifully thanks to Chinn’s words and Linney and Parker’s performances.
2023 Films
No Hard Feelings
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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