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: Oct. 20, 2023
Wide (United States)
Killers of the Flower Moon
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2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Creator
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Haunted Mansion
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And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
- Excerpt: “And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine” is a kaleidoscopic meta-selfie about how we see ourselves through photo and video images.
The Burial
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Everyone involved commits to their respective parts, generating a story that is equally emotional and humorous.
Cat Person
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: The cringe of modern relationships stinks up this antiromance. Its bald truths, all but ignored in pop culture, about how women navigate romantic and sexual relationships with men, demand to be heard.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: As an eighty-minute transformation across artistic mediums, it’s actually quite effective. Here’s the issue: CAT PERSON isn’t an eighty-minute film. It’s two hours long [with a new, tacked-on conclusion].
Dark Harvest
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: All in all: I had fun. Slade is going super dark, but also super corny with the period flair. Think a horror riff on GREASE with Partridge’s Bram Stoker Award-winning plot as its scaffolding.
Dear David
Divinity
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: DIVINITY will not be something you can soon forget. It’s not action-packed, but it’s never boring. Not if you open yourself to its themes of awakening.
Fair Play
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This was marketed as an erotic thriller. It’s neither.
Foe
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: The young cast is mesmerizing, but all this dusty dystopia has is vibes and vague metaphors. It only just barely touches on the potential of its science-fiction ideas to explore the human condition.
Khufiya
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Nyad
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The film is both a threefold character study and an adventure story, Bening, Foster and Rhys Ifans as swim navigator John Bartlett all fully inhabiting exceptional people with very different dreams and motivations.
Peter & the Wolf
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: While the whole feels familiar in many regards, the real intrigue lies in the superimposition of Bono’s zigzag-toothed wolf upon the figure itself as a sort of mask manifested by Peter’s fear.
The Road Dance
- Excerpt: …committed acting performances, particularly by the primary trio of Corfield, Morven Christie, and Ali Fumiko Whitney (the latter as Kirsty’s mother and sister), elevate this film far beyond what the rather mundane scripting gives them to work with.
Suitable Flesh
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: To its credit, the film is not afraid to be kinky and have sex be the driving force of its weird story.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: I am more Swift-curious than Swiftie, but I am singing the praises of this concert film. Taylor, Look what you made me do.
2022 Films
Cryptic
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: CRYPTID is a run-of-the-mill monster film.
