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. 8, 2024
Wide (United States)
Heretic
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Small Things Like These
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Limited (United States)
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point isn’t your typical holiday movie, instead an experience like someone else’s memories flooding one’s senses.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Anora
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Conclave
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Venom: The Last Dance
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The Watchers
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Blitz
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: more adventure story than war movie, leaning heavily into such tales as Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
- Excerpt: Safe, what is safe?
Cellar Door
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I would have liked the film to delve into that psychological duality more, but I can’t deny the way it exploits it to enhance the theatrics isn’t effective.
CTRL
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Emilia Pérez
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Jacques Audiard’s films feature protagonists trying to change their lives, but with “Emilia Pérez,” he’s given us his most startling example in his best film to date…an invigorating original led by three women exhibiting ambition, compassion, motherhood, love and desire.
Here
David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: With Here taking an ambitious approach to the slice-of-life perspective, Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation doesn’t always translate perfectly when it feels too corny for its own good and not getting the best out of its actors.
I Like Movies
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Yes, the period specific nature of working in a video store circa 2002 is on point, but [Levack’s] film isn’t about fandom or obsession. It’s about the masks we wear to hide the pain we feel.
Juror #2
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Why Warner Brothers is limiting the release of Eastwood’s 34th film to 50 theaters is a mystery, but if you take the time to seek it out, you will be rewarded with a morally twisty courtroom thriller led by a great cast.
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: A tense courtroom drama.
Magpie
Memoir of a Snail
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: A true stop animation tale using no CGI and composed of 7,000 objects and 135,000 stills…wows us from its opening credit pan over a vast heap of stuff including snail poison(!), a bathtub marked ‘Melbourne Film Festival Fund’ and an overflowing ashtray advising ‘sound firm.’
Music by John Williams
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Made with clear love and affection. And yet, that veneration also makes the documentary a little too light and fluffy.
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: You won’t find many criticisms, details about his professional or personal problems, or awkward moments in this film. That’s not its goal, but rather to show how important Williams has been to the American film industry.
No Other Land
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The thing about injustice is that those with the means to expose it must do so regardless of whether anyone is currently paying attention. Like Basel says, “You need patience.”
Operation Undead
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It left me saturated, confused and disgusted. Saturated with so much death, confused by the redundant way in which it decided to deal with its themes, and disgusted by the visual treatment of the gore.
