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. 1, 2021
Wide (United States)
The Addams Family 2
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The Many Saints of Newark
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
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Limited (United States)
Coming Home in the Dark
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …leans more on psychology than outright gore, often artfully obscuring its worst moments. This is the type of film able that inspires overwhelming dread with an overhead shot of a vehicle circling back on a gas station
Old Henry
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Starring the Coen Brothers’ go-to hayseed Tim Blake Nelson (“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”), “Old Henry” is a redemptive tale laced with the romance of the American Western outlaw.
2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Card Counter
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CopShop
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Dear Evan Hanson
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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Days
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: initially the film, which definitely identifies as slow cinema, may frustrate, but Ming-liang’s modus operandi becomes mesmerizing and ultimately very moving.
Encounter
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: [A] heavy emotional narrative dealing with mental illness, PTSD, and familial love undercut with loud overtures of systemic violence devoid of textual basis.
I’m Your Man
Jagged
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It’s everything you’d expect from a documentary of this kind and yet you cannot deny its worth due to the content. Klayman is here as the steward of Morissette’s story.
Julia
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Expertly researched and compiled to educate and entertain in equal measure, the first two-thirds of Julia are impeccably drawn.
Listening to Kenny G
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: [Penny Lane] proves yet again that nobody can tonally marry edification and entertainment on-screen so effortlessly.
The Mad Women’s Ball
Mandibles
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: While 2018’s ‘Keep an Eye Out’ was a nonstop assault of Buñuelian jokes and experiments, ‘Mandibles’ (like 2019’s ‘Deerskin’) restricts itself to only a couple of deadpan absurdist premises… It’s an olive branch for those who believe that, when it comes to weird, less is more.
No Time to Die
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Who knew that the sight of James Bond picking up a stuffed rabbit named Dou-dou would evoke not only a chuckle, but a lump in our throats?
No Time to Die
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: It brings me no joy to report I did not care for Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond, not one little bit. (Okay, a couple of bits, but overall, this ain’t it.)
Silent Land
The Village Detective
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: A clip show worthy of a legend of stage and screen. An appetizer for an extensive body of work it leaves you to seek out for yourself.
Violet
2020 Films
The Night House
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It might not be pure art, but “The Night House” does work, even if it’s more on a dramatic level, than as a horror thriller.
