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: Sep. 29, 2023
Wide (United States)
The Creator
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Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
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Limited (United States)
Fair Play
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a relationship thriller with loads of dramatic tension…Unfortunately, once the inevitable happens, Domont takes things so over the top, and multiple times at that, that any impact her film had gets lost in the ludicrousness of her final act.
2023 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Blue Beetle
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Bottoms
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Dumb Money
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Master Gardener
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Brother
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A pall of dread, of terrible suspense, hangs over this powerfully empathetic drama about what it means to be a Black man navigating a racist world. Beautifully performed and structurally intriguing.
Cassandro
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: In his fiction-feature debut, esteemed documentarian Roger Ross Williams … tells the story of this pioneer with all the pathos and flamboyance he deserves.
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
- Excerpt: The pointed subtitle lets us know that this is not the story of how the Court shaped the country, as it might have been if it was made in the 1970s.
Expend4bles
- Excerpt: as a late summer blockbuster, this comeback is 100 minutes of disposable thrills.
Flora and Son
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: As usual with a Carney film, music is the connective tissue, this time veering into rap, which Flora discovers her son is actually very good at and which meshes surprisingly well with what Flora’s been learning about guitar and song construction.
Jaane Jaan
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Mother, May I?
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Because the scariest part of what’s happening isn’t that they might lose themselves to that dread. It’s that they will recognize who it is they are becoming is who they actually need to be.
My Animal
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
- Excerpt: …if you aren’t charmed into entering into the spirit of this movie, you’ll probably find it both preposterous and interminable, an experience analogous to being trapped between garrulous bores on an airplane flight.
Nightsiren
No One Will Save You
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: No dialogue except for two words uttered at the very end. The movie works, but it still feels like a gimmick.
- Excerpt: No One Will Save You is a straight-up masterpiece – an explosive, tightly wound film, relentless and merciless in using every bit of its power to thrill.
The Origin of Evil
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It leads to an inevitable conclusion that grows darker and murkier than expected via the blur between reality and psychosis, but its familiar and obvious choices always seem fresh.
Quicksand
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The rest is noise regardless of how serious or dangerous it proves. This is a world where trauma doesn’t exist, so there’s no use sweating the small stuff like murder, car theft, or bodily injury.
Remembering Every Night
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: If the experience can occasionally feel a little too aimless, know that the reward is primarily in the watching, no matter how oblique the cinematic pattern. From beneath the calm of a warm summer day, powerful emotions surface.
Scrapper
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Sound of Freedom
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Sound of Freedom is a sincere, well-acted film about an underreported subject.
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: it is Tilda Swinton, who starred in Thomas’ “Young Adam,” who proffers the film’s most trenchant observations, calling Thomas ‘rock ‘n roll’ and discussing his ‘very English qualify of transgression.’
Trenque Lauquen
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: will envelop you in its many mysteries and delight you with its mischievous spirit. Have you ever fallen in love with a movie? This one might just do the trick.
A Year in a Field
- Excerpt: For all the majesty of big budget nature documentaries, spending A Year In A Field has yielded wonders for this modest but moving documentary that makes its point without slapping you round the face with messages.
