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: Nov. 26, 2021
Wide (United States)
House of Gucci
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
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Limited (United States)
Licorice Pizza
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: This shaggy dog tale has all of the visual acuity of one who can make any camera choice interesting while never straying from the inherent sweetness of the oddball coupling.
2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Dune
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Eternals
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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King Richard
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The Last Duel
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Last Night in Soho
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The Many Saints of Newark
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No Time to Die
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Raya and the Last Dragon
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The Rescue
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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Summer of Soul
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Ascension
ron wilkinson @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: A vibrant mix of color, action and hubris with a guilty and anxious lining.
Belfast
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The sooner you accept everything is happening through Buddy’s eyes, the sooner you can enjoy the humor as a device [cutting] through dread rather than [distracting from it].
C’mon C’mon
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …simply the best movie about a brother and sister and her kid since “You Can Count On Me.”
The Feast
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: The Feast ultimately feels like a cheat. It withholds the information we need for too long, so that by the time it finally arrives, we no longer care.
The First Wave
- Excerpt: The First Wave successfully emphasizes how people’s emotions were whipsawed by an unprecedented crisis.
The First Wave
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: This film portrays the perseverance of a community ravaged beyond imagination. And it ends with the sobering knowledge that [more] was coming.
The French Dispatch
ron wilkinson @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: If the directors past films employ artistic license this one is beyond the pale into fantasy.
Grandpa Was an Emperor
ron wilkinson @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: An intimate look at the final days of an Ethiopian Camelot gone terribly wrong.
The Hand of God
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: There is so much to discover within this film – like the family secret unrecognized by mourners trying to lift their spirits – that it is destined to be like a favored, dense novel, page-worn from revisiting.
India Sweets and Spices
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Substantive without being didactic, and bursting with humor, it’s a genuine feel-good film that focuses on the relationships between people in a manner that’s as authentic as it is pleasing.
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: And even though we know how it ends, we still watch each glimpse of hope with a renewed sense of optimism that maybe Chamberlain will get out of this after all.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Luzzu
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: boasts vibrant cinematography (Léo Lefèvre) and a complex yet clearly told tale of one man’s struggle against inevitable economic realities, but Jesmark’s betrayal of a friend’s good faith makes him a difficult character to root for.
The Mole
ron wilkinson @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: A droll slight of hand may have the viewer in the role of sucker as much as the fearsome enemy.
New York Ninja
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Know what you’re getting into. Whether [it] sounds like the best or worst way to spend ninety-minutes, it will be that and more.
Passing
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Hall has created a film about adultery wherein these women are having affairs with worlds just outside their reach, culminating in a tragic moment that shows nobody is safe.
Passing
Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Passing is a strong, self-assured first effort for Rebecca Hall as a director. Her film confronts the worst sins of American society.
El Planeta
ron wilkinson @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: A slow burn into existential questions of social status, truth, lies and the power of the human spirit.
The Power of the Dog
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Campion draws it with expert precision, every detail we need to know to understand what’s happening lingering in our subconscious as organic rather than convenient.
So Late So Soon
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Hymanson films them in good times and bad—present and past. The result can appear slight at times, but no less poignant in the aftermath.
Spencer
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: An interesting exercise in claustrophobia, tension and even horror, starring an amazing Kristen Stewart.
tick, tick… BOOM!
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The focus is on Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson but when the characters played by Alexandra Shipp and Robin de Jesús appeared, I empathized with them.
tick, tick… BOOM!
Sarah Marrs @ LaineyGossip.com
- Excerpt: If you don’t mind all the singing, Tick, Tick…Boom! is an engaging portrait of the artist as an increasingly not-young man.
tick, tick… BOOM!
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Luck aside, this is more cautionary tale than rags-to-riches inspiration. It’s about failure after all.
tick, tick… BOOM!
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Theatre folks will love this one. Lots of singing before it’s done.
Worth
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: WORTH is a film about the September 11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, and the work of Ken Feinberg in assigning compensation amounts to the victims’ families.
Zeros and Ones
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: I don’t know what Zeros and Ones is supposed to be. I only know that I was bored to a level no human being should ever have to experience.
Zeros and Ones
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Rather than find myself engaged in any meaningful way, I checked out about halfway through and simply rode out the rest with zero expectations.
