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: Oct. 28, 2022
Expanding (United States)
Tár
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Limited (United States)
Armageddon Time
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Gray is clearly exorcizing demons with this personal film, but it is a mess of rambling inconsistencies for those of us experiencing it.
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With access to Armstrong’s voluminous archives comprised of audio tapes, clippings and letters, director Sacha Jenkins (“Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James”) sketches a picture of a man who was far more complicated than his public image.
2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Amsterdam
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Halloween Ends
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Hocus Pocus 2
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Moonage Daydream
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Pinocchio
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Aftersun
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …melancholy and mysterious. Wells has also unearthed a huge discovery in newcomer Frankie Corio, who gives an amazingly assured and sensitive performance as the 11 year-old Sophie.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s official – writer/director Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges”) produces his best work when he casts Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson…captures the soul of literary Ireland with its reflection of historical sweep in the psychology of everyday men.
Black Adam
Andrea Chase @ KIllerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: The writing is just so much connect-the-dots to get us from one overwrought battle sequence to the next, and too many of those dots were skipped.
Black Adam
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Mr. Burns of the Simpsons once said, “I know what I hate and I don’t hate this.” That perfectly sums up my thoughts.
Both Sides of the Blade
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Decision to Leave
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It doesn’t just encourage a rewatch, it almost demands it.
Decision to Leave
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Park Chan-wook has whipped up another of his twisty, Hitchcockian thrillers…Park Hae-il and Tang Wei perform an exquisite dance of meaningful looks and tricky translations, the latter’s motivation calculated to play two ways…
Good Night Oppy
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: [White] packs an enormous amount of information into his 105 minute running time without ever forgetting to entertain with little tidbits like Oppy’s autonomous system needing to be reassured she may proceed after becoming alarmed by her own shadow.
The Good Nurse
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Lindstrom…chooses to highlight the horrific realities of the U.S. healthcare system which enabled Cullen’s crimes rather than the crimes themselves, resulting in a compelling, gut-wrenching narrative emphasized by his heroine’s unjust situation.
Hilma
- Excerpt: Directed by Lasse Hallström (My Life as a Dog, Chocolat), Hilma stars his wife, the acclaimed actress Lena Olin, as the older af Klint and their daughter, Tora Hallström, as the artist as a young woman. Yet despite — or perhaps because of — the prestige of those involved in the project, Hilma is far too ordinary a film to do justice to such an extraordinary subject.
Holy Spider
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a condemnation of the misogyny inherent in a repressive, religious patriarchal society.
My Policeman
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Instead of burning with desire and longing, the film plods along as though it were simply going through the motions.
Three Tall Women
- Excerpt: Of course, all of us know that life is finite, but few of us manage to acknowledge that fact until the final curtain is lowering.
Wendell and Wild
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Wendell And Wild’ as a story is a bit convoluted – but it’s hard to ignore Henry Selick’s genius and the delightful reunion of Key and Peele
Wendell and Wild
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: [Selick’s] black heroine with green hair, knee high combat boots and dad’s Afro-Punk mixtape blaring from his vintage boombox with a bloodshot eyeball for a speaker is a startlingly original creation who keeps us invested in her loony journey.
The Whale
David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Brendan Fraser gives a devastating and powerful performance in The Whale, which is a career-best. It’s another Darren Aronofsky film that’s a lot to process, but it’s an emotional story about life and redemption I’ll remember for a while.
