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: Nov. 11, 2022
Wide (United States)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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Limited (United States)
Spirited
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Spirited’ is a dull, soulless, unfunny retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’
2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Banshees of Inisherin
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Barbarian
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Black Adam
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Crimes of the Future
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DC League of Super Pets
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Jurassic World: Dominion
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The Lost City
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Tár
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Thor: Love and Thunder
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Till
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Top Gun: Maverick
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
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Armageddon Time
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: James Gray’s ‘Armageddon Time’ is an obnoxious, on-the-nose look at 1980s life in America
- Excerpt: Johnny’s character is underwritten, a collection of attributes more than a personality. He is not given the same interiority we see in other characters and that feels like just another way of letting him down.
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …plays like a more surreal “Birdman” with a dash of “All That Jazz” that favors elaborate visuals over any emotional connection
Calendar Girls
- Excerpt: Dylan Thomas called on us to rage against the dying of the light. These girls (as they call themselves) would rather dance toward it.
Catherine Called Birdy
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Causeway
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: This is a well-acted and mature movie, even when it feels a little slight.
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: While we’ve seen many movies about veterans struggling with trauma and readjusting to life stateside, this quiet, moving film is all about the performances of its two stars in their tentative pas de deux.
Dobaaraa
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Enola Holmes 2
- Excerpt: Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown), the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), returns in this cheeky, breezy sequel that’s better than the original.
- Excerpt: Millie Bobby Brown still makes Enola a very interesting character who talks to us directly as she goes about her exciting adventures.
Good Night Oppy
Chris Barsanti @ Slant Magazine
- Excerpt: The film works hard to create excitement and emotion around an interplanetary rock hunt.
Holy Spider
Loving Highsmith
Sarah E Boslaugh @ The Arts STL
- Excerpt: Loving Highsmith isn’t a straightforward biographical film, but more of a mood piece that doles out nuggets of information within a visual context that’s more about creating a vibe that reporting facts and details.
My Policeman
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Respectable if poorly structured with weak acting save for David Dawson, My Policeman should have been retitled Brokeback Brighton.
Nanny
Old Man
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Old Man is a mysterious cinematic chamber play that tackles the weight of guilt in a story about a man grappling with the horrors of his past. The film revolves around male possessiveness—the urge for men to lay claim and ownership to people, places, and things, though especially women.
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: director Luca Guadagnino reflects patriotic pride with his flawed yet fascinating portrayal of a man, his trade, his innovations and their impact on the movie business and Hollywood glamour.
Something in the Dirt
The Stranger
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Thomas M. Wright’s true crime suspense thriller is a collection of shattered fragments, from its crosscutting among various story and timelines to the shattered psyches of its protagonists…
Triangle of Sadness
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
Utama
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: addresses climate change from the POV of people with a spiritual connection to their environment whose culture is on the brink of disappearing… like a south of the equator response to Milko Lazarov’s 2018 “Ága”
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Part of Schoenbrun’s film is about the internet itself, and the collective stories with which many of us engage, while another part of it is about how our identity can be affected by our internet experiences.
The Wonder
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Sebastián Lelio continues his streak of films about strong women facing societal obstacles, this time a period piece based on a novel by “Room’s” Emma Donoghue where science is pitted against religious beliefs in a contest of grieving mothers.
2021 Films
Ron’s Gone Wrong
Three Wishes for Cinderella
- Excerpt: I have to admit, it’s refreshing to revisit the Cinderella story from a non-Disney perspective.
