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, 2024
Wide (United States)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Civil War
The Fall Guy
Out of Darkness
Sasquatch Sunset
Abigail
David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: When it doesn’t skimp on the gore and is elevated by an unforgettable performance from Alisha Weir in the title role and a great cast, it’s not perfect, but it offers a solid horror film worth recommending.
Crakk
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Evil Does Not Exist
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: While this movie is smaller in scope and shorter than his earlier films, [it] is easily recognizable as Hamaguchi with his spatial placement of his characters, shared meals and colleagues getting to know one another during a long driving commute.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The narrative concerns itself with its characters more than plot. [Hamaguchi] presents them as opposing forces with the potential for common ground against a wholly different entity: Mother Nature.
Femme
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Femme is a searing neo-noir thriller that walks the line between eroticism and danger better than any film in the past couple decades.
Frogman
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Director Anthony Cousins and co-writer John Karsko’s screenplay uses the so-called Lovecraftian aspects to give us a fresh horror film perspective on how true stories about horrifying events are commercialised, packaged, and sold as entertainment even when they have very real, lasting effects on victims/survivors.
Hundreds of Beavers
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A “dam” good time delivering laughs from beginning to end.
I Saw the TV Glow
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmaker has remarked on the influence of ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ on this work and it is readily apparent…both familiar and unsettling, a mood…Schoenbrun allows to slide further and further towards the latter as her tale progresses over decades
Infested
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: What makes Vanicek’s Infested so smart is that in amongst the creepy arachnid terror lies a broader, heavier theme concerning social problems in France stemming from the country’s violent colonial history.
Limbo
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: This is an arresting performance, that, like the film itself, is sculpted from what is not said and what is not done, revealing the essence of the story with inference and innuendo.
Propriedade
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: In ‘Propriedade,’ those without property show how the wages of greed can often boomerang back on the affluent.
Shaitaan
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Stopmotion
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Stopmotion is a mix of body and psychological horror that digs into the very human habit of codependency, though it specifically focuses on the codependent relationship that can and does develop between a child and a parent who takes them for granted.
Stress Positions
Dennis Schwartz @ dennis schwartz reviews
- Excerpt: It makes Woody Allen’s neurotic New Yorker look like an out-of-towner.
Wildcat
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: [Hawke is] using the art as a means to understand the artist [delivering] an intriguing dance between “fact” and fiction that plays with the idea that each influences the other in myriad ways.
2023 Films
Mammalia
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Mammalia is at once comic, weird, and unafraid to illustrate Mihailescu and co-writer Andrei Epure’s vision of a new social frontier filled with masculine anxieties.
Raging Grace
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Raging Grace is a Gothic film that depicts the horrible power whiteness holds over people from non-white cultures.
V/H/S/85
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Nearly every segment in the film, regardless of its end result and quality, touches on some fear that people were feeling during the 1980s, and all of those fears somehow involve an increasing presence of technology in our everyday lives that was becoming more obvious throughout the decade.
