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• [New] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Punny humor, silly slapstick and classic cartoon tropes abound in Butler’s tale, but he’s also used his evolutionary theme to layer in more modern concepts like animal rights, feminism and male sensitivity.
• [New] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: A quite literally cartoonishly awful protagonist, a plot that makes no sense, lowbrow humor, and terrible gender dynamics add up to an unpleasant retro mess.

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• [New] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: Bullying tech CEO is cursed to revert to powerless kid-dom. The limp, desperate comedy that follows never figures out who its audience is and is often unintentionally obnoxious and disturbing.

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• [New] | Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com [Croatian]
  • Excerpt: like Monty Python without the humor as it scampers across the British landscape questing in vain for a film worth watching. Keep questing HELLBOY.

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• Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: It’s blunt, clumsy, and leaves little room for interpretation, but Emilio Estevez’s passion for the story and its messaging is undoubtedly sincere.
• [New] | Christian Long @ Glide Magazine
  • Excerpt: It forces a painfully earnest look at what libraries end up becoming in major American cities: a safe haven for the homeless.
• Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
  • Excerpt: Estevez never forgets the humanity he’s striving to spotlight. That’s what makes The Public a success despite the convenient characters and [parallels].
• Beverly Questad @ It’s Just Movies
  • Excerpt: “The Public” is just plain great film-making. Estevez brings us separate, interesting homeless personalities of courage, despair and humor. He also comments on the crisis of our time through Stuart Goodson, who explains what’s going on over the phone to a newswoman covering the story: “And in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath.”
• Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
  • Excerpt: The Public makes a worthy stump speech for its checklist of modest societal issues.

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• Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
• James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
• Chris Feil @ The Film Experience
• Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
  • Excerpt: There are unexpected moments of beauty, camaraderie, and tenderness in this visually stunning trip. For once, there is some humanity left after Noé has unleashed hell.
• [New] | Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
  • Excerpt: I don’t think Noé commits himself to any particular interpretation; he’s simply interested in choreographing as much misanthropic excess as possible… I’m more convinced than ever that Gaspar Noé has no idea what he wants to say with his art—but is nevertheless supremely confident about how he wants to say it.