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: Jul. 12, 2019
Wide (United States)
Stuber
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Limited (United States)
The Art of Self-Defense
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Riley Stearns’s pitch black comedy is like a feminist take on “Fight Club” had “Fight Club” been addressing toxic masculinity…Jesse Eisenberg’s best role since “The Social Network…”
The Art of Self-Defense
- Excerpt: Profoundly witty and oddly reflective, The Art of Self-Defense is one of the year’s best uniquely dark comedies to give a karate chop to the inactive funnybone.
The Farewell
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Wang excels with this mixture of levity and heart tugs, personified in Mr. Li, Nai Nai’s dismissively treated live-in boyfriend who shuffles about like a ghost, attending to her needs.
Sword of Trust
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: An absurd situation growing more surreal as the minutes tick away because their level of intrigue can’t help outweigh their trepidation in dealing with racist monsters.
Trespassers
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Some script and originality issues aside, ‘Trespassers’ is a solid, if familiar, home invasion horror.
Trespassers
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Because [the main quartet] have no real relationship to the [object of their pursuers’ desire], this encounter’s sheer randomness is proven anticlimactic from the start.
2019 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Booksmart
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Midsommar
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Spider-Man: Far from Home
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Transit
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Yesterday
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CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It is not quite as satisfying as the first and will be even less so for those just coming aboard, but there is still much to enjoy in the warped wisdom of Van Der Weyden and the comical silent reactions of his trusty lieutenant Carpentier (Philippe Jore).
Culture Shock
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Guerrero’s film embodies the brutal process immigrants must endure to find a better life, and also the processes working against them to ensure they assimilate entirely into American culture.
Desolate
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
Lords of Chaos
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: That it succeeds as well as it does is largely due to Culkin, director of photography Pär M. Ekberg’s striking visuals and its truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story about artists who prize image over all.
Luce
Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
- Excerpt: Luce is a political thriller, horror, and character study all wrapped up neatly into a tight, twisting family drama that keeps you guessing.
Luka Chuppi
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Murder Mystery
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler are no strangers to comedy, so they do their best in MURDER MYSTERY. But most of their comic banter falls flat.
Phil
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It’s so off-putting that the script’s ability to subvert expectations at the eleventh hour falls flat.
Phil
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: charts how a misguided affair becomes a matter of national security while also exploring privilege, power and gender and cultural disparity.
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Rojo
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Naishtat [gives] his audience the credit to read into things with their own historical and political interpretations. Not being that audience means I can admit the film didn’t work for me personally while also lauding its craft.
Round of Your Life
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Despite having reservations with the type of film and the inherent issues generated, I can’t say I hated the journey. There’s an authentically bittersweet nature present that just overcomes its limitations. – Despite having reservations with the type of film [it is], I can’t say I hated the journey. There’s an authentically bittersweet nature present [to] overcome its limitations.
Silent Panic
Skin
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: They need Bell to give the tour de force performance he does in order to allow them the ability to go into the darkness with him. A just world would place him in the awards conversation, but ours will probably not give Skin the platform necessary for that to happen.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
The Trouble with You
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …the type of commercial French filmmaking which rarely gets released in the U.S., a silly lark which is enjoyable while you’re watching it but is immediately forgettable.
Vita & Virginia
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: The legendary literary lesbian romance, starring the incendiary duo of Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki, is criminally blah, lacking all sexual and intellectual passion. How does this happen?
2018 Films
Of Fathers and Sons
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Of Fathers and Sons shows us a corner of the world, plagued by endless social and political issues, where raising children has become more akin to the process of raising soldiers.
2017 Films
Alien Convergence
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
