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: Jan. 15, 2021
Wide (United States)
The Marksman
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2021 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Bloody Hell
Sandy Schaefer @ Comic Book Resources
Locked Down
Outside the Wire
Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Buried underneath opaque layers of what we are misled Outside the Wire is about – drone warfare ethics, weaponized artificial intelligence, and post-Cold War proxy wars – is a muddled treatise on endless wars.
Skyfire
Sandy Schaefer @ Comic Book Resources
- Excerpt: Skyfire is an enjoyably goofy natural disaster genre movie throwback that manages to be truly ridiculous yet utterly sincere at the same time.
What Happened to Mr. Cha?
- Excerpt: This South Korean comedy gets metatextual as Cha In-Pyo plays a JCVD-style version of himself. For the star’s sake, let’s hope this is as far removed from reality as possible.
What Happened to Mr. Cha?
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: A comedy with laughs galore. Dear Mr. Cha, we want some more!
2020 Films
One Night in Miami
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The Wolf House
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Bare
- Excerpt: The naked ebb and flow of men
Dave Not Coming Back
- Excerpt: Into the depths, but not out alive
Echo Boomers
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz
- Excerpt: It wants desperately to say something impressive about the younger generations of millenniums except it has nothing impressive to say.
Greenland
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A same-old tale of apocalypse knows we’ve seen this all before, and so centers human drama over disaster porn. It has nothing new to say, but at least it says it well, with notes of horrific grace.
Herself
Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Clare Dunne’s earnest performance elevates a script intent on turning the screws of its heavy-handed genre.
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
- Excerpt: A bubbly pink mocktail of a film, The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo embodies the spirit of its subject in wonderfully weird ways that entertain even when they don’t quite hit the mark.
Trolls World Tour
Warm Hug
- Excerpt: China’s remake of the South Korean rom com The Plan Man is a endearingly stylish musical romp that is a good way to start the year.
The Wolf House
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The Wolf House‘s experimental animation traps us in a constantly shifting nightmare dollhouse: Maria merges into and out of the walls, conjures human features for her pigs, and even the paintings on the walls can’t keep their shape for more than a second or two.
2019 Films
Jesus Shows You The Way to the Highway
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
- Excerpt: 1970s kung-fu styled absurdist spy-type of film.
