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

• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: : It’s hard to pin down in its early goings, often seeming almost parodic… but once Da 5 are reunited in the jungle, the film coalesces into something powerful.
• [New] | Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
  • Excerpt: On its surface, Da 5 Bloods is an exhilirating adventure filled with twists, turns, and Spike Lee’s iconic style. However, it’s also a depth-filled character study that his heartbreakingly prescient about our present moment.
• Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: Spike Lee’s approach to the material is done with a stirring relevance and fearlessness that shows he is still able to capture the pulse of the zeitgeist better than pretty much anyone else out there.
• [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
  • Excerpt: It’s male camaraderie and brotherhood that make this Spike Lee joint so effective.
• Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
  • Excerpt: There is action and drama aplenty, but Spike Lee isn’t here to just entertain us; he never is, he’s here to educate us. We’re on a guided tour of how the black man is the foundation of the United States of America, yet has only received scorn and torment in return.
• Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: Spike Lee has been delivering masterpieces for a long time. He does it again now.
• Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
  • Excerpt: For as long as there has been cinema, we have needed a Spike Lee. We may always need Spike Lee.
• Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
  • Excerpt: That’s not to say that the good doesn’t outweigh the bad, though. I merely hypothesize that a great two-hour drama exists within this over-inflated, two and a half hour epic.
• Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
• Josh Taylor @ www.forgetfulfilmcritic.com
  • Excerpt: Spike Lee’s indelible style, wit, and focus on black issues is what makes the picture as good as it is. He has created – in collaboration with the actors portraying them – four black men who are all dealing with what the Vietnam War did to them. They do so in different ways, and Lee explores the unique ways in which trauma affects and is expressed by those who have survived it.

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

• Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: As a violent home invasion thriller, it’s engaging, it’s intense, Lulu Wilson and Kevin James are both stellar, and it absolutely delivers for genre fans looking to have a gnarly good time.
• [New] | James Jay Edwards @ The Big Smoke America
• Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: Becky is bad, just not in a way that’s any fun, and Kevin James neither embarrasses himself nor has an Uncut Gems moment like his pal Adam Sandler.
• Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
  • Excerpt: Writing about movies feels trite right now, but this one is about an angsty tween absolutely eviscerating a gang of hateful Nazis, including one played by Kevin James, and that’s always welcome. Feel-good movie of the summer so far.
• [New] | Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
  • Excerpt: Someone has to learn something from [the scenario’s] potential horror. If neither [Becky] nor we learn anything, it’s all just been an exploitative mess of genre tropes.

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

• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: a more benevolent take on the star/underling dynamic of many films that have come before it with a surprise up its sleeve which you may not see coming and which helps to alleviate some unfortunate flaws.
• [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
  • Excerpt: This glossy pop distraction won’t any awards for originality, but superior performances elevate this music industry tale.
• Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
  • Excerpt: The Vegas residency version of a story which preaches new material, but declines to offer any
• Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: The High Note is a music-based comedy that I enjoyed the heck out of.
• Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
  • Excerpt: The High Note belts its own tune by celebrating a genuine camaraderie between women looking out for each other personally and professionally.

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

• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Featuring a mind blowing, career best performance from Elizabeth Moss, “Shirley” is a tour de force of imagination, director Josephine Decker (“Madeline’s Madeline”) keeping her camera in close to get us inside Shirley’s head.
• Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
  • Excerpt: The film’s overwhelming and somewhat chaotic opening prepares you for its penchant for tension—sexual, suspenseful, and otherwise. On the other hand, the introduction to Shirley barely scratches the surface of the unpredictable rollercoaster that she is
• Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
  • Excerpt: Elisabeth Moss is as great as you’d expect. Josephine Decker’s stylistic touches can sometimes be frustrating, but is more often offers a striking and thrillingly inventive look into the mind of her characters.
• James Jay Edwards @ The Big Smoke America
• MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: A beautiful-ugly film, a work of domestic gothic grotesquerie, of women’s suffocation and sacrifice, pain and isolation. Elisabeth Moss’s performance is next-level glorious in its wackadoo intensity.
• Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: A compelling portrait of a great writer, fueled by Elisabeth Moss’s searing work.
• Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
• Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
  • Excerpt: Decker portrays it all as though it’s one of Jackson’s psychological horrors—[stepping] to the precipice of danger before all tension releases with a cut.
• [New] | Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
  • Excerpt: Elisabeth Moss is perfectly cast for the part of the neurotic horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson.
• Josh Taylor @ www.forgetfulfilmcritic.com
  • Excerpt: If Shirley is a biopic at all, it’s by way of psychological thriller. Decker and screenwriter Sarah Gubbins infuse myriad themes into the picture, everything from dread of pregnancy and childbirth, female sexual desire, toxic male behavior (with plenty of toxic female behavior, too), and psychological mind games.
• Ron Wilkinson @ ItsJustMovies.com
  • Excerpt: Revisiting the psychopathic writer and friends and family, director Josephine Decker spends too much time rehashing past treatments.