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: May 10, 2019
Wide (United States)
The Hustle
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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
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Tolkien
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Limited (United States)
The Biggest Little Farm
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …inspirational in how it documents the resilience and intelligent design of nature, but who is it inspiring? Only those with seemingly unlimited financial resources and a large crew of devoted interns need apply.
The Biggest Little Farm
2019 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Avengers: Endgame
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The Curse of La Llorona
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Family
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Glass
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High Life
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I Trapped the Devil
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The Intruder
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Little
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Long Shot
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Pet Sematary
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Us
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Velvet Buzzsaw
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Wild Nights with Emily
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Ask Dr. Ruth
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: For someone like me who really did know her as a comedic footnote in pop culture, Ask Dr. Ruth proves crucial to restoring her legacy.
Ask Dr. Ruth
Frank Ochieng @ ScrreenAnarchy
- Excerpt: Ask Dr. Ruth is both playful and piercing in its spotlight shining on a strong, achieving giggly feminine force that conquered lingering personalized adversity with sexual advisory potency.
Book Smart
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: An exceptional piece of coming-of-age filmmaking both emotionally resonant and very funny. An impressive directorial debut from Olivia Wilde.
Captive State
Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
El Chicano
- Excerpt: …the humorless and dark tendencies feel utterly labored. Dripping in brutish violence as a police procedural, El Chicano is a sunken saga riddled in strained grade-B crime drama cliches.
Clara
Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
- Excerpt: This combination creates an intimate and daring film experience that enraptures as easily and as powerfully as it fascinates.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Elements of it work wonders, especially with the performances, but it lacks the focus and thematic cohesion to work as a whole.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Never glorifies its subject, opting to show him as a bland, dishonest, and cruel human being instead, focusing on the wreckage he created that extended beyond his victims and their mourning families.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: What in the world has casting done? Ted Bundy played by Zak Efron! A decision like that seems bold. And yet it proves to be true gold.
General Magic
The Hole in the Ground
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Even if the climax is a bit anticlimactic compared to the atmospheric build-up, “The Hole in the Ground” remains attentive to its characters and achieves a mood that is creepy, unsettling, if not exactly frightening, and finally open to ambiguity.
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Excerpt: Izumiteljica je film koji se itekako pogledati i koji daje jednu zanimljiv, iako prilicno uznemirujuci pogled na današnji svijet.
Knock Down the House
Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Knock Down the House earned the Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award, a sure sign this documentary is both feel-good, inspirational, and at times a call to action. The glass ceiling is broken and the playbook is written – Rachel Lears and her four heroines, notably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, will now show others how to make the politically impossible, possible.
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Bi Gan is brave to attempt a feat like this and I wonder how much of it was to satisfy a creative need and how much it was for purposeful notoriety. Like much arthouse cinema, the film defies easy categorization and will truly appeal to only a thin slice of the movie-going public, but for those few, Long Day’s Journey Into Night is pure catnip.
Pledge
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: “Pledge” is confidently shot and has a nasty, buzzy thrill about itself, but would it have killed the filmmakers to at least provide a more likable or just sympathetic character who didn’t feel like composite leftovers from a “Porky’s” sequel?
The Quiet One
The Ruthless
Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
Shadow
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: It brings me no joy to report Zhang Yimou’s ‘Shadow’ does absolutely nothing for me.
Starfish
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: “Starfish” is more impressionistic than it is straightforward storytelling, not so much telling an A-to-B narrative as it is evoking a vivid feeling.
Under the Silver Lake
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: An aggresively strange, indulgent, and idiosyncratic film that can prove immensly enjoyable if you can groove on its wavelength.
Under the Silver Lake
Scott Phillips @ The Movie Isle
Under the Silver Lake
The Wandering Earth
Emmanuel Báez @ Cinéfiloz [Spanish]
- Excerpt: China’s most expensive sci-fi film is just decent.
2018 Films
Green Book
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The Hate U Give
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Isle of Dogs
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Life Itself
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Love, Simon
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Mary Poppins Returns
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On the Basis of Sex
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Ready Player One
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Roma
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Second Act
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
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Canary
- Excerpt: http://www.jamesweggreview.org/Articles.aspx?ID=2185.
Daddy Issues
- Excerpt: Fulfilling a dream takes a curious route
Memories of My Body
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
2017 Films
Loveless
Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
