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. 6, 2023
Wide (United States)
The Exorcist: Believer
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Limited (United States)
The Royal Hotel
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: always seems to be on the verge of becoming an update on “Wake in Fright,”…stays perpetually on the brink of outright horror…instead it is more of a cautionary tale about choosing your traveling companions wisely.
She Came To Me
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: I’ve never been much of a fan of writer/director Rebecca Miller (“Personal Velocity,” “The Ballad of Jack and Rose”) films, so her latest is a refreshing surprise, a thoroughly balmy (in a good way) romantic comedy
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Creator
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It Lives Inside
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Past Lives
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The Beasts
- Excerpt: …a profoundly upsetting story given a gripping treatment…
El Conde
- Excerpt: Pablo Larraín’s fascist vampire analogy ‘El Conde’ somehow trivializes the Pinochet monstrosity at its core.
Flora and Son
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: This is one of those movies that goes down smoothly, like a song you can listen to over and over again.
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: FLORA AND SON might not be as great as ONCE or SING STREET, but it is charmingly sweet and funny en route to a rousing bow-tied ending performance that should have you leaving with a smile on your face.
Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
My Sailor, My Love
- Excerpt: Klaus Härö’s tear-jerker mostly earns its emotional appeals, thanks to a script that skirts passed the worst tropes with additional levels of psychological depth.
Reptile
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It’s handsomely made with strong, committed performances, but it plays so closely to the blueprint that it never establishes an identity of its own.
Saturn Bowling
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: A horror film as cold-blooded as the serial killer it depicts on a rampage through Calvados, France, and as cold-hearted as the father whose sins are visited in abundance upon two brothers.
Story Ave
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s a riveting narrative with authentically drawn mirrors to show Kadir that he’s not alone. Whereas that truth can supply him a window towards a brighter future, it can also reveal a perpetual struggle.
Unknown: Cave of Bones
Aren Bergstrom @ 3 Brothers Film
- Excerpt: The success of Cave of Bones ultimately depends on the answer to the question I began with: are you ever moved by the sight of human bones? If yes, then you might find questions worth pondering in this accessible, if limited, Netflix documentary.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
- Excerpt: Wes Anderson’s short is at once extremely faithful to Roald Dahl’s story and yet radically something of his own making.
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The effect might be termed ‘whimsically Brechtian.'”
