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: Jun. 7, 2019
Wide (United States)
Dark Phoenix
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The Secret Life of Pets 2
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Limited (United States)
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Even with a few rough patches, The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil bubbles with a propulsive energy. Polished and glossy, it moves along with an easy, rapid momentum, myriad action beats, and another top-tier performance from Ma Dong-seok as a businessman brawler who provides a thoughtful sharpness to this fun, if familiar, crime thriller.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Loving something so much not to know how to give it up is a powerful feeling, and this movie allows an audience to soak in this plight.
Late Night
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Late Night [teaches] inclusivity and diversity as a means of reinvigorating creativity. [It] falls short of [its] potential, but the good still easily outweighs the bad.
2019 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Aladdin
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The Biggest Little Farm
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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Ma
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Rocketman
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All Is True
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The result is a well-made and well-acted piece of historical fiction whose big picture construct is sadly in opposition with its small picture intrigue.
Always Be My Maybe
Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
- Excerpt: Affectionately blending their own societal zest from their place in America’s Melting Pot, Wong and Park bring new voices as a genius comic pairing. Much of the method of Always Be My Maybe may be routine, but the resulting charm is unfailingly welcome.
Always By My Maybe
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Just because this zany streak is where the film’s replay value lies, however, doesn’t mean the filmmakers didn’t also pack plenty of emotional weight.
The Art of Self-Defense
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: A caricature of toxic masculinity that watches like a navelgazing, mumblecore Fight Club, Self-Defense uses zero subtlety as aesthetic affectation.
Brightburn
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Arguably simplistic to a fault, but as a slasher film, it’s a lot of nasty fun.
Brightburn
- Excerpt: This is an ambitious attempt to merge the underbelly of the superhero craze with the ubiquitous broadness of horror but the whole misfire is as futile as Superman licking a Kryptonite postal stamp.
The Dead Don’t Die
Scott Phillips @ The Movie Isle
Dogman
Scott Phillips @ The Movie Isle
In Fabric
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Peter Strickland’s Duke of Burgundy is one of my favorite movies of the last decade, so In Fabric was always a must-see. And when the first shot has a warm, crackling giallo look, a switchblade, and ‘70s style prog rock score, you have my full attention.
Koko-di Koko-da
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Twisted and terrifying, it offers a time-loop of grief, death, and adorable animated shadow puppet bunnies and birds, which he also manages to turn scary and unnerving as all hell.
The Lavender Scare
Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: Another shocking and horrific expose of American hatred and ignorance.
Leto
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Serebrennikov is obviously having fun with his history lesson of mood above drama. And since I’ve been listening to Kino ever since, I guess I was too.
The Lodge
Scott Phillips @ The Movie Isle
Lynch: A History
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Lynch: A History offers an engaging portrait of the man, the athlete, his life, and his time, as well as a fascinating experiment in narrative craft, form, and construction.
The Name of the Rose
Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A medieval whodunit with moral firepower that reflects a reverence for books.
The Perfection
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Delightfully bonkers and wildly unpredictable, but once it reaches the third act, it loses itself with heavy issues that the filmmakers simply aren’t prepared to tackle.
Rainy in Glenageary
Satanic Panic
Scott Phillips @ The Movie Isle
State of the Union
Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: Ten ten-minute films in which a couple grapples with the difficulties of maintaining an intimate relationship in our hurried times.
The Tomorrow Man
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
