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: Aug. 6, 2021
Wide (United States)
Nine Days
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The Suicide Squad
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Limited (United States)
Annette
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Considering that Adam Driver’s Henry begins with a long, beastly mane and ends with a bowl cut and pencil moustache while Ann is a pretty songbird, it’s not that difficult to see Ann and Henry as Russ and Ron Maels.
Annette
Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Is Leos Carax a Cannes auteur retaining his crown of provocateur supreme or is he just a gasbag? The answer depends on how you react to Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, and a stop-motion puppet child as they sing through a whirlwind romance turned Shakespearean tragedy.
2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Green Knight
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In the Heights
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Jungle Cruise
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Stillwater
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Ailey
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Even though we get little on Ailey’s personal life, Wilmot has found enough to reflect it in his work
The Body Fights Back
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Honest, compassionate, and very necessary, this is a provocation, a challenge to our individual and cultural preconceived notions about and neurotic relationships to food, weight, and body image.
The Boys in Red Hats
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
Dachra
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Bouchnak uses a tale of rural witchcraft in Tunisia as a way to confront difficult social realities in the country’s contemporary society.
Enemies of the State
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: https://aisleseat.com/enemies-of-the-state.html
The Fear Street Trilogy
For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Here After
Kandisha
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Beneath a brutal supernatural revenge story, the film briefly touches on social issues from misogyny and racism to the Gothic, haunting legacy of colonialism in France.
Mandibles
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
No Sudden Move
Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Is No Sudden Move a great movie, like Chinatown? A movie steeped in the noir tradition that is meticulously plotted with a satisfying payoff? Or is it an opaque, convoluted mess that only pretends to profundity? I’ll let you know after my second viewing.
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Cynical sequel — you know, for kids! — doubles down on the nihilistic money-grubbing of the original. Thinks that being clever and meta about its own disenchantment will win us over. It does not.
Resort to Love
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: This sweet rom-com seems short on com — but strong on rom.
Sabaya
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: With “Sabaya,” Hirori illustrates news items many have become inured to and brings them to devastating life while his subjects, Mahmud and Ziyad, give us hope for humanity.
Slaxx
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Three friends, a van full of inflatable sex dolls, and a fishing trip gone very, very wrong; a quartet of inept killers; and a mysterious one-eyed man with a brutal vendetta. All wrapped in a bloody, violent, patently ridiculous, near-slapstick package.
Vivo
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …a colorful and energetic cross-generational and cross-cultural tale in which music is the language of love.
White as Snow
- Excerpt: With the iconic Isabelle Huppert playing said stepmother, you know this isn’t going to be your great-grandmother’s Snow White (or Walt Disney’s either, for that matter). Instead, it’s a gorgeously lensed tale of female emancipation and generational jealousy.
Wife of a Spy
Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
2020 Films
The Boy Behind the Door
- Excerpt: A masterpiece of small-scale filmmaking, a taut thriller which uses classic cinematic techniques to tell a well-formed story effectively.
