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 26, 2023
Wide (United States)
About My Father
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Kandahar
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The Little Mermaid
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2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Air
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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Book Club: The Next Chapter
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Fast X
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M3GAN
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Huesera: The Bone Woman
- Excerpt: In the process of shedding her old life and taking up the new, [Valeria] becomes disoriented and separated from herself, and finds no understanding for what she’s going through.
Hypnotic
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
In the Dusk
Kathal: A Jackfruit Mystery
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A documentary that offers a fresh perspective of the singer from those closest to her.
Master Gardener
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: You couldn’t render MASTER GARDENER riper for ill-conceived social commentary if you tried. Because he doesn’t even try to approach the psychology of what he’s created. It’s literally all for kicks.
Moon Garden
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: So, while visually gorgeous in its commendable, if incomplete, message about the power of “healing”, the smiles at the end feel more like resignation to me.
The Night of the 12th
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: This police procedural isn’t therefore about justice or heroism or even violence. At least not any one isolated from the others. It’s a look at the human condition and its tragic flirtation with futility.
The Night of the 12th
- Excerpt: Winner of six César Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, the film is unflinching in its depiction of sexual jealousy, the violent acts committed because of it, and the rampant misogyny at the root of it all.
Sanctuary
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It isn’t until the very final scene that we realize that what director Zachary Wigon and writer Micah Bloomberg have crafted is a perverse romcom, a feature of a film which continually keeps us guessing.
The Thief Collector
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: This is an utterly transfixing story told with an infectious tone, but it’s about 80% speculation. And while that speculation is fun, the whole can feel like spinning wheels for long passages.
Victim/Suspect
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Continuing the searing, cinematic examination of sexual assault that she began with her 2018 feature documentary Roll Red Roll, director Nancy Schwartzman now trains her lens on the way that the police all too often incarcerate victims, rather than perpetrators. You would be forgiven for scratching your head in disbelief at that last phrase, but in Victim/Suspect, the unthinkable happens with alarming frequency.
2022 Films
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
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Master
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AI Love You
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: AI LOVE YOU is a United States/Thai science fiction film which predates the current A.I. craze by about a year. It has elements of HER, but the basic premise is not that of a robot imitating a human, but that of an AI somehow downloading itself *into* a human.
Stay Awake
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
