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. 29, 2022
Wide (United States)
DC League of Super Pets
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Vengeance
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Limited (United States)
Resurrection
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A Love Song
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: With Dale Dickey and Wes Studi at the helm, you may not see a more affecting screen romance all year.
A Love Song
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: What’s more indelibly romantic than a tentative affection born out of distance and memory after already having lived what will be their greatest love? It’s absolutely exhilarating.
A Love Song
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Actress Dale Dickey (“Bloodline”) has spent her career playing tough women who channel the bitterness of hard lives into aggressive anger, alarming strength, and no small amount of enduring resilience. By now, her heavily lined face has become not only a cinematic icon but also a fascinating landscape as beautiful to behold as the rugged Colorado mountains that dot the background of “A Love Story,” the debut feature from writer/director Max Walker-Silverman.
2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Black Phone
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Elvis
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
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Fire of Love
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
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The Gray Man
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Jurassic World: Dominion
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Lightyear
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
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Nope
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Thor: Love and Thunder
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Alone Together
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It looks nice and the performances are well done, but this feels like a shadow of better romantic dramas.
Alone Together
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: The only way this could be more tone-deaf is if she waited to reveal that it was set during the first few weeks of the pandemic in 2020 for a third act rug pull.
Anonymous Club
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: It flirts with [the possibility of diving deeper] to deliver an intriguing if shallower than expected look at the humanity behind the fame. It reminds us that our heroes carry and fight the same pain we all do.
Both Sides of the Blade
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Works when we get to see Binoche and Lindon wrestling with their own insecurities and fears through shouting matches with each other. The palpable rage bleeding through the silences and passive aggressive provocations are beautifully raw and explosive.
The Fish Tale
- Excerpt: “The Fish Tale” is an excellent film, very easy to watch and interesting contextually, as much as a proof that both Okita and Non are currently at the top of their game..
Girl in the Picture
Márcio Sallem @ Cinema com Critica [Portuguese]
Glorious
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: There’s more to Glorious than its surface-level comical surrealism, though. Beyond the out-there notion that Wes’ penis might be the only thing that can save the world is the unspoken question concerning why it must be Wes in the first place.
Gone in the Night
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: [The finale is] simple, flirts with extremes only to pull back, and even finds itself concluding with a pitch-black final frame that may in fact prove to be subtly darker than the myriad other possibilities.
He’s Watching
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: A masterfully crafted film that blends the real and the supernatural so seamlessly, that a hammer defying gravity is at once reasonable and terrifying. Taut, smart, and eloquent, it’s a jolt to the system and to the psyche.
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: The annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival draws more than 100,000 people each of its seven days to hear jazz and its many musical offshoots on more than a dozen stages, eat arguably the best food on the planet, enjoy crafts booths and exhibits, and absorb the unique energy and spirit that any visitor to the Crescent City feels the moment their feet hit the ground.
My Old School
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: What’s great about letting everyone have their say is the realization that this isn’t just one person’s story. Who he was to them is much different than who he is to the world once the truth of his charade is revealed.
Not Okay
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It’s a familiar trajectory portrayed with a boldly wanton disregard for the consequences. Whereas most dark comedies of this ilk would play it all for redemption, however, Shephard understands the value of holding horrible people accountable.
Offbeat Cops
- Excerpt: Despite some issues here and there, mostly deriving from the overall mainstream approach implemented here, and the fact that “Offbeat Cops” does not reach the levels of his independent work, it remains a highly entertaining movie that is quite easy to watch while admiring Abe’s evident charisma.
Olga
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: This is a political film. While Olga’s pursuit of her Olympic dream is often narratively truncated, what it means to be in Switzerland while her loved ones remain in Kyiv risking their lives at the protests isn’t.
She Will
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: This is about overcoming the constraints dictating a woman’s existence in a man’s world. Both Krige and Eberhardt deliver subtly quiet performances within this atmospherically fragmented pursuit of vengeance, ultimately transforming into agents of change.
Skies of Lebanon
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Rohrwacher is wonderful in that role, steadfast and determined regardless of whether Lebanon is her adopted home. Mouawad provides the stoicism and defeat of a man unsure about his identity.
Stellar: A Magical Ride
- Excerpt: Despite some issues here and there, that do not allow it to reach the top of the category, “Stellar: A Magical Ride” is fun and quite easy to watch, and that is where its true value lies.
Thirteen Lives
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: just how could [Howard] make a story which had already been told so expertly in a 2021 documentary worthwhile a mere year later? The answer is surprisingly well, largely due to a well cast ensemble and production crew committed to realism.
Vata
- Excerpt: “VATA” is not an easy film to watch, and a knack for the particular style of music, which is actually heard throughout, and for travelog-style of films is a necessity here. However, the cinematography, the presentation of this rather unknown custom and the last segment compensate to a significant degree, making the movie one that deserves a watch.
The Waxing and Waning of Life
- Excerpt: One could say that the directors lost their sense of measure after a fashion, resulting in a title that gets lost in the narrative and audiovisuals they created. At the same time, the whole approach is rather unique, in a movie that remains intriguing from beginning to end, definitely deserving a watch even if just for this uniqueness.
2021 Films
Bergman Island
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
Chorokbam
- Excerpt: Evidently, “Chorokbam” is an intensely art-house movie, of the type that very little happens from beginning to end, and the tension is just restricted to a brief scene here and there. On the other hand, it is also artful, appealingly weird, and a title that definitely deserves a watch due to its unusual approach to both narrative and audiovisuals.
Imaginur
- Excerpt: Despite these problems, the overall atmosphere of “Imaginur” actually compensates, with the movie remaining entertaining throughout, while providing food for thought through the unusual approach to the comments about memory and how it shapes people.
The Killer: A Girl Who Deserves to Die
- Excerpt: The Killer: A Girl Who Deserves To Die’ has absolutely no regard for any kind of modern political correctness, not to mention the fact that women here are portrayed as much the villains as the men, to say the least, while realism is thrown out of the window essentially from the beginning of the movie. Who cares though, when the entertainment it emits comes from every scene and the quality of the production is so high? The Killer: A Girl Who Deserves To Die” is one of the best action movies of the year and a return to a cinematic past of Korean movies that I feel many have missed significantly.
