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. 6, 2020
Wide (United States)
Onward
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The Way Back
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Expanding (United States)
Emma.
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Limited (United States)
Escape From Pretoria
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: While I wished Escape From Pretoria dived deeper into the politics of its era and broader socio-political context, it still delivers a rock solid prison break movie that never loses touch of the humanity behind the characters.
Extra Ordinary
Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: What better way to help a sort of “keep it weird” culture fight back against yet another Ghostbusters remake.
Extra Ordinary
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Will Forte has a penis staff he uses to find virgins for demonic sacrifices. Use this information as you will.
First Cow
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: For a film that is so simple and understated, First Cow knows how to hit at some interesting aspects of culture.
Hope Gap
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Hope Gap excels in these personal revelations that hinge upon the actors’ performances and the sorrow of pain endured complemented by the recognition of pain wrought.
Run This Town
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
Run This Town
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: It certainly doesn’t reach the heights of the films that Ricky Tollman is influenced by, but it knows how to keep the pacing snappy, and the information delivered in a way that is accessible, entertaining, and informative all at once.
Swallow
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Bennett… is the real deal as a woman imprisoned by her own truth until she sets herself free, happier flown her gilded cage, and Mirabella-Davis’s female body control thriller marks him one to watch.
2020 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Birds of Prey
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Color Out of Space
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Greed
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The Invisible Man
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The Photograph
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The Rhythm Section
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All the Bright Places
Candice Frederick @ New York Times
All the Bright Places
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: This outstanding teenage tearjerker impressed me with its honesty, compassion, and sensitive performances by Elle Fanning and Justice Smith, who project amazing chemistry together on screen.
And Then We Danced
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: In one amazing sequence, the camera follows Merab through room after room of David’s wedding reception toward his heartbreak before doubling back against the irony of dancing guests… His final, rebellious dance for Aleko and Beso is a complete show stopper.
Be Water
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
- Excerpt: Yet another documentary on the Hong Kong superstar Bruce Lee.
Blood on Her Name
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: A strong lead performance, smooth pace, dour visual aesthetic, and intriguing subversions of established expectations offer up a solid slice of hard-luck small town neo-noir.
Blood on Her Name
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: The film is only 80-minutes, but it’s not until the end that things really start moving because that’s when the time to act overcomes the desire to think.
Blood on Her Name
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Blood On Her Name efficiently tells a cracking story while simultaneously tackling issues of gender and morality, both of which are ever present and more than occasionally problematic in the (neo)noir genre.
Clover
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Things do get extra silly by the end, but the blackly comedic tone is consistent enough to allow for such a wild turn of events to feel at home nonetheless.
Horse Girl
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …clearly a passion project for [Brie]… This makes it all the more tragic that, despite her fervent portrayal, the story isn’t as gripping as it might have been.
The Jesus Rolls
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: The narrative is built on dialogue as characters with different backgrounds collide in this crazy adventure of sex and crime.
Lost in America
An Officer and a Spy
Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Any semblance of thematic depth and emotional complexity is lost amid Polanski’s self-righteous, superficial self-referentiality.
Schwarz Weiss Bunt
- Excerpt: Schwarz Weiss Bunt (Black White Color) is a gentle Austrian tale of the perfect time in a young woman’s life. Matilda (Clara Diemling )is finishing college and her world is a continuum from familiar, familial comforts of the past, to the absolute perfection of her untested future.
Stray
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s the kind of indie art-house film that lets you love it for itself.
The Trouble with Being Born
Chris Barsanti @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: In the end, the film suffers from the same issue as its moody androids: enervation borne out of repetition.
Wendy
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: : as pure an example of ‘sophomore slump’ as I have seen, a muddled reimagining of the J.M. Barrie tale as gritty, retro magical realism with a Peter Pan (newcomer Yashua Mack) more giggling tyrant than free-spirited leader.
Wendy
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: [Wendy] is our eyes and ears to experience this bewitching land of infinite possibilities and to see beyond the metaphor of “Mother’s” monstrous beauty.
The Whistlers
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: The Whistlers provides a level of satisfaction anyone with a desire to screw around with genre would want.
2019 Films
Booksmart
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Gemini Man
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
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Missing Link
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Motherless Brooklyn
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The Secret Life of Pets 2
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About Endlessness
Alan Mattli @ Maximum Cinema [German]
- Excerpt: For all its bleakness, Roy Andersson’s latest portrait of humanity’s imperfections is dotted with moments of sublime beauty and loving wonder.
