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: Mar. 12, 2021
Wide (United States)
The Father
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Chaos Walking
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Raya and the Last Dragon
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The Vigil
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400 Bullets
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Cutler has ostensibly strung together all the feel-good moments that resonate with fans in a way that allows them to live vicariously through her experiences.
Blithe Spirit
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It’s as though the filmmakers enjoyed the first half of Coward’s play so much that they decided to make a movie out of it and relegate the second half to epilogue status.
Boogie
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Luckily the familial and personal stuff has the strength to stick in our heads when the battle on the court fades because the work the actors put in is effective.
Boss Level
Derek Deskins @ Edge Media Network
- Excerpt: While Frank Grillo is a perfectly competent grizzled action star, “Boss Level” is a sad attempt at anything flirting with competency.
Boss Level
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It’s thus a violent lark playing fast and loose with its science fiction so Grillo can have a blast.
Cherry
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The Russo Brothers are committing the cardinal sin of telling us to feel rather than earning that feeling as a result of what they’ve put on-screen. It’s all just pretend.
Cherry
- Excerpt: At two and a half hours, ‘Cherry’ attempts to tackle war values, PTSD, drug addiction, teen romance, and crime but the decently-entertaining character study settles to skim the surface of the issues it sets out to challenge. Tom Holland is genuinely good but the Russo Bros need to sharpen their dramatic directorial skill if they want to step away from solely commercial projects.
Come True
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Outside of the shared shadow phenomenon, there’s an unpolished quality to the screenplay with too many loose ends…or untethered one-offs…preventing it from wholly clicking…Stone, who resembles a young Lillian Gish, is quite compelling in the lead
Coming 2 America
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The nicest thing I can say is that Ruth Carter’s costumes are spectacular!
Coming 2 America
Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Coming 2 America may only have a residue of the magic of the original, but it is still there, which is something.
Crisis
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: We need well-researched introductions to the topic’s nuts and bolts as much as dramas amplifying its human cost. Just don’t expect this to be both.
Lucky
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Compact and efficient, Lucky puts a nice spin on the recurring timeline narrative.
Lucky
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: May’s demon isn’t the kind you can destroy. Its faceless patriarchal terror is unrelenting and infinite.
Moxie
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Serious theme with comic turn, MOXIE includes a lot to learn.
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Featuring a searing performance from Djuricic, whose reasonable hope giving way to mounting helplessness shrouds the film in unbearable tension, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is like watching a horrific accident we are powerless to stop.
Russian Raid
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: …a bunch of gnarly Russian dudes pounding one another into oblivion.
Sentinelle
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Quick, to the point, and violent, it gets in cracks skulls, and gets out. With a compelling, layered protagonist and badass turn from Olga Kurylenko, this more than scratches a particular action itch.
A Shape of Things to Come
Silk Road
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: At the end of the day this is a hollowly reductive account of what happened with a weird subtextual rich punk against blue collar cop agenda falling woefully flat.
Sometime Other Than Now
- Excerpt: Sometime Other Than Now is a frustrating watch—it keeps teetering on the brink of almost being good but never quite makes it. I never thought I’d miss the skill (if not depth) of Nicholas Sparks, but here we are.
