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: Apr. 1, 2022
Wide (United States)
Morbius
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Limited (United States)
Barbarians
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: … a feature debut with a fine production but no real suspense or rooting interest.
Nitram
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The film has been divisive in its native Australia, but Kurzel and Grant have succeeded in delivering both a strong gun law message and artistic achievement.
You Won’t Be Alone
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Macedonian writer/director Goran Stolevski’s feature debut is, on its surface, a folk horror tale, but he’s used the genre creatively as a cyclical exploration of the experience of being human in all of its extremes.
2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Lost City
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Master
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Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Clearly, it’s Eve’s poppy music and the psychedelic anime routines that are the draw here. But the thin narrative does at least suggest themes of teen love, teen alienation, teen sexuality, and teen suicide, with a sly queer slant.
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: the purist piece of boomer nostalgia ever committed to film.
Cow
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Andrea Arnold’s “Cow” is all the more powerful because of the humane conditions of the farm she has chosen to document. We may never know what Luma is thinking, but this sympathetic portrait makes her unforgettable.
Deep Water
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This isn’t a good movie, but I did enjoy the absurdity of it all.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Buried beneath the cacophony of its sci-fi silliness “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has a message about ignoring life’s distractions in favor of what is truly important. It succeeds as well as it does because it rests on Yeoh’s classy shoulders
Man of God
Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: This true-life story of Nektarios of Aegin grabs attention from the start and soon spreads into your heart and soul like the incoming crash of a Mediterranean wave.
Random Call
- Excerpt: “Random Call” has its issues, with Ohkanda’s insistence to present all the thoughts and comments she wanted resulting in a bit of “too much context” for a 77 minute film, but overall, the whole endeavor emerges as a worthy effort that definitely overcomes its budgetary limitations, resulting in a rather easy to watch title.
RRR
Josh Hurtado @ Austin Chronicle
The Spine of Night
Superior
- Excerpt: While filmmakers often end up expanding old shorts for their first features, this Superior is actually a sequel to the original. Picking up six years after the short left off, it chronicles the reconciliation of the twins after a long separation and the blurring of their identities that results.
Topside
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Every element of the production is outstanding… But without the belief we invest in Held and Farmer, the film would never work and the filmmaker and her young charge are heartbreakingly real.
The World for the Two of Us
- Excerpt: The intensely art-house approach implemented in “The World for the Two of Us” makes it a somewhat demanding viewing, but the title seems like a perfect fit for the festival circuit, additionally because it highlights a concept that is very rarely witnessed on cinema.
You Are Not My Mother
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: A strong and confident first-time outing for Dolan, marked with enough chills and insight to make for a compelling horror experience.
2021 Films
CODA
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Drive My Car
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King Richard
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West Side Story
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A Forbidden Orange
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Skeleton Flowers
- Excerpt: “Sceleton Flowers” is a well-directed, well-shot, and well-acted film, that needed, though. some more tension and a bit of trimming in its duration to get to the next level. Festival audiences, however, will probably have a blast with this.
