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: Sep. 9, 2022
Wide (United States)
Barbarian
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Limited (United States)
The Class
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: People are still watching The Breakfast Club nearly four decades later. The same won’t be true for The Class.
Hold Me Tight
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Amalric impresses behind the camera, multiple timelines and locations melting into one another via match cuts as sound is both overlaid and bleeds from one scene to the next, both devices illustrating Clarisse’s psychic connection to her family.
House of Darkness
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A great deal of build-up is given for a rather minimal payoff.
Speak No Evil
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This Danish/Dutch coproduction from cowriter (with brother Mads)/Christian Tafdrup is a frustratingly flawed but thought provoking analysis of a victim’s culpability in his own fate.
Speak No Evil
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: It’s a take-no-prisoners horror film that’s scary because you can almost certainly relate to it.
True Things
2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
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Three Thousand Years of Longing
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Clerks III
- Excerpt: Clerks III is a love letter to fans who have been watching the View Askewniverse since the very beginning. Kevin Smith has crafted a story that is both hilarious and personal… This is the greatest cinematic universe ever created – aside from the MCU!
Clerks III
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Clerks III brings back the Kevin Smith we haven’t seen in a long time – the guy with something to say.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: A cautionary tale set in the near future, it has an engaging cast and some powerful moments as it tries to sound the alarm to alert people to an impending crisis of waste management.
Cuttputlli
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Explorer
- Excerpt: Any single one of his accomplishments could have earned the Guinness Book’s Icon award, but as the list of some of them scrolls through the early part of this film, the cumulative impact is breathtaking.
The Festival of Troubadours
- Excerpt: Lubezki-like skies and folk songs make up for any filmic wrongs. And two main actors seem so real, their performances clinch the deal.
I Came By
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: A passing interest for fans of thrillers. It’s not the greatest example of the genre, but neither is it the worst.
Pinocchio
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Zemeckis can be a superb director, yet he gives in to his worst technology-driven impulses here, effectively sucking all meaning out of the tale.
