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• Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
  • Excerpt: It finds in this purely ceremonial exercise a stark portrait of a deeply divided country at a crossroads, and in its protagonists’ struggles, a charged journey full of suspense, disappointment, and joy.
• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: riveting…a microcosm of the state of our divided nation as displayed by seventeen year-old boys, predominantly white and conservative, who are at turns impressive, infuriating, silly, mean-spirited, compassionate and frequently surprising.
• Glenn Dunks @ The Film Experience
  • Excerpt: I watched the new Apple+ and A24 documentary Boys State and, sorry to break it to you, but America is nuts. Like, really. A lot. I’m allergic to nuts—anaphylactic, send me hospital kind of allergic—and I felt as if I were about to break out in hives watching Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ compelling and unsettling new movie.
• [New] | Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
  • Excerpt: Like a reality TV show cinema vérité.
• Josh Taylor @ www.forgetfulfilmcritic.com
  • Excerpt: Boys State is a masterful piece of observational, verité cinema. It’s every bit as engrossing as something like Harlan County, USA – although the stakes of that film, about striking coal miners in Kentucky, are literally life-and-death – and carries on the grand tradition of the direct cinema approach of the Maysles Brothers and Frederick Wiseman.

Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:

• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” is a sleek, mysterious clockwork which, like its title, flips in its middle and doubles back on itself, exposing its inner machinations. As The Protagonist, John David Washington imbues the director’s chilly aesthetic with humanizing warmth.
• Rich Cline @ Shadows on the Wall
  • Excerpt: Christopher Nolan’s latest brain-bender is an entertaining if rather dense spy thriller, mixing the globe-hopping splendour of a Bond movie with Nolan’s puzzle-style plotting, dropping clues into each Imax-scaled scene.
• Rob Daniel @ Electric Shadows
  • Excerpt: With Tenet, Nolan has made his Bond film. Unfortunately it is Spectre by way of Guy Ritchie’s Revolver.
• [New] | Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
  • Excerpt: Nolan never fails to deliver on the big screen experience and, in spite of some atypical predictability, this is a thrilling watch from beginning to end.
• Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
  • Excerpt: Christopher Nolan has too much time on his hands.
• Matt Oakes @
  • Excerpt: ‘Tenet’ sees director Christopher Nolan completely bend the knee to technical showmanship and entirely ignore the bread and butter of what makes films engaging: character. Though the mostly-practical VFX achievements make you wonder how he did this or that, there is no excuse for how actively not fun Tenet is.

Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:

• Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
  • Excerpt: A nimble film full of wit, intelligence, and compassion
• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Writer (with “In the Loop” and “Veep” cowriter Simon Blackwell)/director Armando Iannucci celebrates Charles Dickens’ favorite of his own novels by shaking it up and one comes away thinking the author would have approved.
• Rich Cline @ Shadows on the Wall
  • Excerpt: After taking on Russian history with The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci turns to Charles Dickens with this elaborately funny and relatively faithful adaptation
• Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
• Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
  • Excerpt: A vibrant albeit manic drama fashioned around a memorable performance by Dev Patel.
• [New] | Alan Mattli @ Maximum Cinema [German]
  • Excerpt: Rarely have Dickens’ indelible characters been put to screen so vividly.
• Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: Springy and funny. A literary adaptation for people who don’t like literary adaptations.

Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:

• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Reeves and Winter step into their old roles as if they’ve simply grown older along with them and the film is as sweet and silly as our protagonists.
• Rich Cline @ Shadows on the Wall
  • Excerpt: The storytelling is messy, but the film is so disarming that only the coldest curmudgeon will be able to resist its charms
• Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: I had a really fun time hanging out with these characters again. It’s a conclusion to the series that will definitely satisfy fans.
• [New] | Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
  • Excerpt: It’s difficult living up to a film beloved by so many, but this second sequel does a good job of evoking everything that was great about its predecessors.
• Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
  • Excerpt: Bill & Ted may face the music, but it’s their daughters that are the most righteous.
• MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: The chill zen and goofy charm of GenX’s philosopher-fools remains intact, but their latest adventure is too familiar a retelling. Still, “Be excellent to each other” won’t ever not be worth heeding.
• Eddie Pasa @ Gunaxin
  • Excerpt: If the world could be gifted a million more movies like Bill & Ted Face the Music, it could be the cause for celebration and peace among the nations. Not only is it a welcome blast of nostalgia, it is an eager call for unity amid calamity like none other.