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. 27, 2023
Limited (United States)
The Holdovers
David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: With endearing performances from its three leads and the filmmaker’s skill at striking the right balance of comedy and drama, we have a compelling and comforting holiday dramedy about letting others into our hearts despite the differences we see in them.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: While there is never any doubt where this film is headed, it’s a lovely, moving story infused with holiday spirit about broken people making each other whole again. Giamatti is perfection in a role custom tailored for him…
Priscilla
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Sofia Coppola adapts Priscilla Presley’s memoir in fleeting takes, like flashes of memory which build into an interior portrait of a marriage unseen despite the continual glare of global media.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Creator
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The Flash
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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The Inventor
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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The Little Mermaid
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
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No Hard Feelings
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Oppenheimer
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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Anatomy of a Fall
David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Anatomy of a Fall is nothing short of a riveting courtroom/family drama that requires your patience but comes through with its thematic, complicated subtext of marriage.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Triet creates tension from her first image, that of a ball bouncing down the stairs, where it will be retrieved by Snoop, the dog who in many ways represents the deceased…
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Setup as a courtroom drama, audiences will become engrossed in the intense trial as Sandra’s personality awaits a verdict.
Anonymous Sister
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: It is the story of the perfidious Purdue-developed and marketed oxycontin, a drug that leaves you wanting more and more until you become debilitated. … “Anonymous Sister” is critically acclaimed and one of the most moving documentaries of all time.
The Burial
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This courtroom drama entertainingly swings between seriousness and comedy in a true-life story.
Butcher’s Crossing
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Gabe Polsky’s BUTCHER’S CROSSING is a familiarly harsh depiction of men going against nature with nothing but greed, vengeance, and hubris in their hearts.
Dicks: The Musical
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Director Larry Charles is not one to shy away from controversial pictures, having collaborated with Sacha Baron Cohen several times, but this one isn’t even up to his standards.
Dream Scenario
Founders Day
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: What’s fun about the film is that it proves to be [about justice and jealousies] at once. And rather than be a cop-out as a result, this reality enhances the whole.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: The film does an excellent job balancing the narrative’s seriousness with its comedy as Sasha’s unique diagnosis lends itself to humorous interactions with Paul and her family.
In the Shadow of Beirut
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: I chose to review this movie because I was curious about what the Clintons would choose to sponsor. I recommend it because it touched my heart.
It’s Basic
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: The biggest favor “It’s Basic” gives us is the encouraging, heartwarming stories of what happens to the working poor when they receive a small guaranteed monthly income. The shame comes when we realize how so many employers pay their employees so little that homelessness, crime, double and triple job shifts (destroying family cohesion) become the only options.
The Killer
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: I wasn’t expecting a black comedy, but that is just what director David Fincher has given us with his procedural reverse character study of a man whose strong ideas about his own identity prove somewhat unfounded.
Lynch/Oz
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …although the movie expects the viewer to have a working knowledge of Lynch and Oz, the topic is broad enough to serve as a jumping-off point for reflections about movies, American culture, and the artistic process itself… ‘Lynch/Oz’ is about the influence of one on the other, but it’s also about all sorts of creative cross-pollinations and new perspectives.
My Love Affair with Marriage
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a heady, wildly entertaining personal exploration of the chemical nature of romance.
Once Within a Time
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …a surreal, continually morphing journey, one which resembles a German expressionistic, Orwellian ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as imagined by David Lynch and filmed by Guy Maddin, Philip Glass’s score adding a futuristic element.
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Matched with the baroque, almost Cirque du Soleil-like performances throughout and Philip Glass’s haunting score, Once Within a Time is, at times, a mesmerizing curio that is an echo of Reggio’s earlier masterpieces.
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Superpower
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Penn is an inspired narrator who has a message for the U.S. and the entire world. His heart has been won by the determination of the Ukrainians and their Superpower.
Tiger Within
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Zielinksi has taken Gina Wendkos’s somewhat quirky script and made it into a majesty. He has captured an inspiring end of life journey.
Totally Killer
We Are Guardians
Victoria Luxford @ Dirty Movies
- Excerpt: The Amazon Rainforest becomes a battleground for the planet, in this thoughtful American-Brazilian doc about the true cost of deforestation
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: … this is the movie to see and this is a cause to care about.
The World is Blue as an Orange
- Excerpt: Tsilyk’s film conveys a sense of what it’s like to live in a war zone in a way that news reports simply can’t, and that’s doing the world a service, above and beyond the creative approach to storytelling and expert cinematography that characterize this film.
2022 Films
Sex with Sue
Victoria Luxford @ Dirty Movies
- Excerpt: Canadian “sexpert” who battled ignorance and prejudice with an arm full of sex toys fills the 31st Raindance Film festival with unabashed lust and joy!
