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. 24, 2023
Wide (United States)
Napoleon
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Wish
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Expanding (United States)
Saltburn
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Limited (United States)
Maestro
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: excepting Cooper’s willingness to cede the spotlight to his female costar, this is a very different film from “A Star Is Born,” both a biopic of a real person and riskier in its artistic choices, a marriage portrayed as mosaic.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Mulligan and Cooper are too good for it not to be [enthralling]. Maybe it is all style and little substance, but its dual portrait (albeit shallow) is no less invigorating as a result.
Maestro
- Excerpt: Maestro can appear as another biopic. Still, it proves Bradley Cooper’s skills as a filmmaker haven’t worn themselves out, especially when he came through on another fantastic performance from him paired with Carey Mulligan to craft an elegant and personal story of a composer and his love.
Monster
- Excerpt: Even if the surprising Monster isn’t always delicate enough, Kore-eda’s tenderness makes you realize that those who hide under the bed were driven there.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
- Excerpt: With its traditions captured in delicate, sweaty vignettes by filmmaker Anna Hints, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’s anecdotes fill your lungs and engulf you, until its women’s secrets drip down your body.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Afire
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Anatomy of a Fall
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Barbie
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The Burial
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Emily
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The Holdovers
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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The Killer
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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May December
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Oppenheimer
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Priscilla
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Thanksgiving
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A Thousand and One
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Trolls Band Together
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26.2 to Life
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: We all know there is an adrenaline rush that can come with running, but how that energy channels into transformative behavior is the miracle captured in this intimate film by Christine Yoo, an accomplished filmmaker but first-time documentarian.
Americanish
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Zawahry, in her debut feature film with a diverse cast of American-Muslim females made by a diverse group of American-Muslim women, sorts it out from her perspective creating a zany, enjoyable film that confronts the challenges and yet doesn’t offend.
Apurva
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Boy and the Heron
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mesmo que O Rapaz e a Garça escape ao estatuto de obra-prima, algo a que o mestre Hayao Miyazaki nos foi habituando, ao longo das décadas, é inegável o seu poder de puro encantamento. Sobretudo quando aqui mescla a fantasia com as mais vincadas pinceladas biográficas. Ainda por cima após uma década de silêncio, uma vez que o anterior As Asas do Vento data de 2013.
Down in Dallas Town
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: Beautifully crafted with sensitivity and intelligence, DOWN IN DALLAS takes us beyond the images of 11/22/63 that have become so familiar that they have lost their initial power.
Fallen Leaves
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With “Fallen Leaves,” Kaurismäki exhibits a heightened mastery of tone, his film at once funny and deadly serious and one of his best.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Aki Kaurismäki has created the year’s driest romantic comedy with FALLEN LEAVES: a slow-building love affair [with] an acerbic wit that has the slyest of grins coming across as belly laughs
Fingernails
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Despite a talented cast, there’s no way of getting around viewing this superficial film as anything but trash.
Full Time
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A realistic drama about a single mother coping with a possible job change amidst a transit strike.
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A riveting war story that reveals the bonds that build between soldiers and interpreters
Home is a Hotel
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: What happens to each featured character after five years becomes gripping and even surprising. But what remains exasperatingly frustrating is that after 50 years across America we still have not fixed the working poor housing shortage, much less the homelessness of the handicapped, mentally ill or addicted.
Leo
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Leo does have a lot of positives going for it, but a lot of negatives as well. It sits in that weird gray area between satire and sincerity, between sweet and salty.
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Appealing humor combines with pleasing animation to make Leo a good family movie night selection.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Think CHARLOTTE’S WEB (referenced as a bookend) if Wilbur was a classroom of insecure tweens desperate for anyone to listen to their problems without judgment. Add some endearing if forgettable songs and you get a well-meaning if forgettable film.
Miranda’s Victim
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: I’m hoping “Miranda’s Victim” resurfaces during awards season, not only so that it might win some awards, but so that it might garner the attention of so many of us who just never knew the origin of the Miranda Rights and the importance of saying them.
My Sailor My Love
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: Touching story about a father and daughter dealing with the challenges of both giving and receiving care.
The Old Oak
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Aos 87 anos, o cineasta Ken Loach permanece fiel e consistente a um cinema de pendor realista e humano. E o seu mais recente trabalho, O Pub Old Oak – apresentado em estreia mundial na competição de Cannes, exibido em antestreia no LEFFEST, e em estreia esta semana às salas -, é um valioso acrescento a essa obra notável, feita de combate contra a injustiça e defesa dos oprimidos.
Rose
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: ROSE does a wonderful job ensuring [Inger’s humanity] stays in the spotlight whether through drama or comedy. Because, despite the pitfalls of the subject matter, this is a very funny movie.
Saw X
- Excerpt: https://flickdirect.com/4k-review/2986/saw-x/4k.ashx
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Absolutely non-political and filled with beauty and harmony, “The Wild Parrots of Telegraphy Hill” is a soothing reminder that another path, another way of life, may be possible if you seek it.
Women in the Front Seat
- Excerpt: The women featured in Women in the Front Seat are all ages and ethnicities and types. This diversity reinforces the message that there’s no specific class of people entitled to ride, and the sexism of male riders and society at large is no match for the sisterhood they will find among their fellow female riders.
2022 Films
Women Talking
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The Other Tom
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: Poignant story of a mother trying to decide what is the best approach for dealing with her son who has ADHD.
