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. 15, 2022
Wide (United States)
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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Father Stu
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Limited (United States)
Dual
- Excerpt: Starring Karen Gillan as a terminally ill woman who commissions a clone of herself to take her place when she’s gone, the film is odd almost to a fault—in other words, if you cannot tolerate Stearns’ signature style of deadpan dialogue, don’t bother giving this one a shot. But if you do, you’ll be treated to a wonderfully weird set of, well, dual performances from Gillan as her characters (and the audience) wrestle with what it means to be truly alive.
The Tale of King Crab
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …like the discovery of a long lost art film from the 1970’s, a homespun bit of magical folklore.
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun takes a unique look at teenage isolation and adult predation by placing her protagonist within a corner of the Internet which resembles the Slender Man/creepypasta phenomenon.
- Excerpt: Schoenbrun utilizes the hyper-specific language of the Internet—in particular, the dark world of creepypasta—to weave an engaging and frightening tale, featuring a remarkable debut performance from Anna Cobb, that should deeply affect audiences regardless of one’s gender identity.
2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Ambulance
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
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The Lost City
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
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Agent Game
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Too often screenwriters Tyler Konney and Mike Langer allow themselves to fall into that “Three Weeks Earlier” nonsense, a device discounted by even the most undiscriminating viewer and derided even by a particularly clever episode of “Rick and Morty.” These guys ought to know better.
a-ha: The Movie
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Far more substantive than a Behind the Music episode, the movie takes you inside the dynamic of a globally-popular act to examine their success, as well as the toll it took.
Aline
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Aline is one of the strangest films I’ve ever seen.
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All the Old Knives
- Excerpt: Cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen’s camera is seldom still– it swirls and dollies more than it remains fixed, giving the film a sense of fluidity and also creating some motion in a film largely composed of people talking to each other.
All the Old Knives
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: The movie jumps around in time so much that it becomes disorienting. I gave up trying to follow the plot after the first hour because it was an exercise in futility.
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Richard Linklater‘s nostalgic reflection on growing up in 1969.
Babi Yar. Context
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The atrocity is one of the most gut-wrenching mass murders of innocent civilians by Nazi Troops arguably of the whole war – a title card reminds us that they were killed “without resistance from the local population.”
The Bad Guys
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A snappy, snarky, never-ever sentimental concoction of cartoon chaos meets hip heist flick. Its breezy swagger extends to the delightful animation, organic and mellow, hot and cool at the same time.
Barbarians
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I thought a lot about Poltergeist while I was watching Charles Dorfman’s Barbarians, which shares the same theme of claiming indigenous homeland for financial purposes without respecting what came before, but there was a difference.
Dasvi
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This is a film about adult women and children in war, and in its cozy domesticity full of caring creatives, in some ways it is like a modern day equivalent of ‘Little Women.’
The Girl and the Spider
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: One is tempted to look at The Girl and the Spider and toss it into the bin of ‘art for art’s sake.’ I get that.
Infinite Storm
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: t must be written into the fabric of lone survivalist women in the movies that they can’t just brave the elements and come out the other side alive but psychologically dented, there has to be some personal baggage bringing up the rear, usually in the form of a recent tragedy.
Metal Lords
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Imagine Judas Priest recording a concept album based on a John Hughes movie and you’ve got Metal Lords.
Navalny
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Spectacularly entertaining. As gripping, as suspenseful as a finely wrought fictional thriller; a sheer delight as a portrait of the man himself. Films don’t get much more daring or crucial than this.
The Northman
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: while the film’s craft is exemplary and its drama brutal, “The Northman” is not as memorable a film as Eggers’ prior two. This critic recalls Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2009 “Valhalla Rising” more fondly.
RRR
- Excerpt: The Bollywood epic ‘RRR’ offers up a historical action epic unlike anything you’ve seen before
See You Then
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The deep-feelings binge in this case falls between Kris (Pooya Mohseni) and Naomi (Lynn Chen), former lovers who spent three years together before the former unexpectedly walked out. Given that history, it is a bold move for Kris to, out of the blue, invite Naomi to dinner.
Spiritwalker
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Come Off
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: am Jones’ loving documentary Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Come Off (now playing on HBO Max) make the point over and over that Hawk is no sell-out. Yes, he has his named attached to everything from T-Shirts to video games but there is something to the man, a sense of perfection that comes with anyone who rises to the top of their profession.
2021 Films
House of Gucci
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King Richard
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The Many Saints of Newark
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Pig
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Good Person
- Excerpt: As such, “Good Person” emerges as an intriguing film that definitely deserves a watch, particularly for its combination of whodunnit and family drama.
Memoria
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: harkens back to the natural, spiritual and ancestral themes of [Weerasethakul’s] Thai films while literally encompassing the more universal…not a film for the casual moviegoer, but those willing to absorb its mysteries will find much to ponder.
Minamata
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Minamata aims at the soul. This powerful film meets its goal.
The Scary of Sixty-First
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: It feels like an adaptation of a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy podcast that realized it didn’t have enough crazy ideas to spin into a feature film, so a horror movie subplot was added.
