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: Nov. 17, 2023
Wide (United States)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Next Goal Wins
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Thanksgiving
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Trolls Band Together
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Limited (United States)
May December
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The three leads are phenomenal, Portman’s husky come-ons amusing in their brazenness and revelatory in their application, her direct camera reading of Gracie’s love letter the film’s climactic assumption of character.
- Excerpt: In his most provocative film to date, Haynes’ May December is a chilling yet visually intriguing drama that not only captures the audience’s attention but also showcases Portman and Moore’s electric performances.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Anatomy of a Fall
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The Creator
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The Holdovers
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It’s a Wonderful Knife
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The Marvels
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Fair Play
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Domont creates a story to not only expose how deep-seated patriarchal norms are in corporate culture, but to also honestly portray how its victims will often attempt to believe those hurting them most are still worth saving.
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A dull horror movie about a security guard constantly dozing off in a pizzeria. You’ll want to join him.
The Great Escaper
- Excerpt: The Great Escaper is not at all the film you expect it to be and is all the better for it.
It Is In Us All
Shelagh Rowan-Legg @ ScreenAnarchy
Jawan
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Killer
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: When it comes to themes of power, control, and attention to detail, this might be the closest thing David Fincher has come to giving us a “personal” film.
Leo
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The second Sandler family project of the year…puts dad Adam back in the spotlight as a lizard who’s just learned of his own mortality…in a charming animation that casts him as part fairy godmother and part inspirational teacher.
Las Leonas
- Excerpt: Directed by Isabel Achaval and Chiara Bondi and produced by acclaimed filmmaker Nanni Moretti, the documentary Las Leonas depicts how a shared love of soccer has brought together a group of immigrant women living on the outskirts of Rome and given their lives a healthy dose of excitement, friendship, and hope.
Nyad
- Excerpt: This biopic awards should win. If not, my head might start to spin!
Piaffe
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: This trans-adjacent film traffics in an uncomfortable blurring of sexual boundaries: between male and female, consensual and non-consensual, human and animal. There are meaningful connections and memorable scenes, and yet it often feels like an overstretched premise rather than a story.
Pippa
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Royal Hotel
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The Royal Hotel is a no-thrills thriller. It’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Australia, but the murderers are instead rude bar patrons who get chased off before they cause any real trouble.
Sound of Freedom
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: All of that burden of discourse is on the shoulders of a film that’s awfully generic.
Subject
- Excerpt: Subject hands the mic back to some of the people made famous by Hoop Dreams, The Staircase, The Square, The Wolfpack and Capturing the Friedmans. It allows them to return to the parts of their lives that were melted down, poured into molds and shaped forever in the public eye by these documentaries.
The Taste of Things
- Excerpt: The Taste of Things is a delicious film about harmony and partnership.
They Cloned Tyrone
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Just because it proves more of an entertaining romp than political satire, though, doesn’t mean the latter won’t resonate. Think a grounded SORRY TO BOTHER.
Totally Killer
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A welcome addition to an awkward genre that combines the slasher movie with outright comedy.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
