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. 25, 2022
Wide (United States)
The Lost City
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2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
The Adam Project
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After Yang
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The Batman
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Fresh
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Marry Me
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Master
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The Outfit
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Studio 666
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Turning Red
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Windfall
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X
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Ahed’s Knee
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Ahed’s Knee is an angry, confrontational work wherein Lapid has no qualms with making his audience uncomfortable. [But] some segues are just plain weird.
Alice
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
Alice
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Alice
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: “Alice” knows what it is and what it isn’t. What’s more, it has the sensational Keke Palmer and knows what to do with her.
All My Friends Hate Me
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: The result is as funny as it’s excruciating and alienating as it’s relatable. Look no further than a final line that’s as blood boilingly reductive as it is apt.
Asking for It
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Mostly, “Asking For It” is a screed made with over-directed excess and a terrific ensemble, beating you into submission with its persuasive mission statement.
Boundary: Flaming Feminist Action
- Excerpt: Boundary: Flaming Feminist Action is an excellent documentary, which manages to be both intensely personal and widely universal, highlighting a series of issues and the actions against them in the most eloquent and artful fashion.
Cheaper by the Dozen
Kirsten Hawkes @ Parent Previews
- Excerpt: The film might feel preachy and plasticky at times, but it means well and won’t do any harm. When it comes to family viewing, you could do worse.
Cheaper by the Dozen
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: “Cheaper by the Dozen” is harmless enough without being a very good movie.
Dear Mr. Brody
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: While Brody’s story proves wildly entertaining and tragic in ways you cannot imagine when first hearing his confidant charitable promise, Dear Mr. Brody’s real value is in the people he touched even if he never met them or read their words.
Deep Water
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: There is a sleaziness to the characters that make them both repulsive and fascinating.
Deep Water
Sarah Marrs @ LaineyGossip.com
- Excerpt: This is the weirdest erotic thriller I’ve ever seen, there’s just SO many snails.
The Desperate Hour
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Naomi Watts carries most of this to the finish line, but besides keeping the viewer concerned and on edge, don’t be surprised if you’re left wondering if it was all for the right reasons.
The Desperate Hour
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: So while Noyce and Watts try their best to ramp up tension, Sparling’s foundation proves too flimsy to comply.
Far Away, Further Away
- Excerpt: “Far Away, Further Away” lies on a slightly lower level than the great “Reiko and the Dolphin”. However, it is funny, sensual, interesting in its comments, and in general, another rather easy-to-watch title by Imaoka, who presents one more very entertaining work.
Gold
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: “Gold” is a gruelingly intense journey for survival, but for those who are ready for it, Efron makes an unforgiving Vitamin D overdose a harrowing experience.
The Hater
- Excerpt: The best thing about the movie is its refusal to make any character one-dimensional or completely unsympathetic, especially when we find our own expectations challenged.
Jalsa
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Lucy and Desi
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Sometimes the cinematic version of comfort food can really hit the spot.
Moon Manor
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Moon Manor’ aims at persuasion, and how well you like it will depend on your position on the right to die (and on whether you think opposing viewpoints should at least get a fair hearing). But it’s also a living eulogy for an extraordinary man, which makes the movie harder to criticize or dislike.
Mother Schmuckers
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: More despicable than what almost sounds like a Dardenne brothers-John Waters collaboration, “Mother Schmuckers” is a celebration of bad taste that deserves the middle finger.
No Exit
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: None of us are too good for an airport paperback of a movie, and “No Exit” does right by those parameters.
Offseason
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: “Offseason” envelops the viewer in the off-kilter goings-on for as long as it can. It just doesn’t add up to more than a genre exercise with fog machines.
Offseason
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Maybe it doesn’t stimulate your intellect as much as other recent genre fare, but it definitely provides an engrossing setting with which to travel through for eighty-minutes.
The Oufit
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Moore [baits us] into thinking we know everything there is to know so we don’t go deeper to figure out the rest. I don’t say that to now go digging. I say it so that you don’t let your frustrations with familiarity and contrivance ruin the [experience].
Our House Party
- Excerpt: Shuichi Kawanobe had some good intentions in presenting his subject, but in the end, his effort ended up a film that tries to do too much in a very short time, and without any particular contextual direction.
Rescued by Ruby
Kirsten Hawkes @ Parent Previews
- Excerpt: This production isn’t perfect – it has a made-for-tv feel – but it succeeds in telling a true story with sincerity and heart.
Sanka: Nomads of the Mountain
- Excerpt: “Sanka: Nomads of the Mountain” is an excellent movie, a true gem of Japanese cinema and one I feel everybody should watch.
The Seed
Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: If you’re down for some grotesquely goopy (and tactile) practical effects this side of Brian Yuzna’s bonkers, jaw-droppingly icky social satire “Society,” “The Seed” is gross fun.
The Seed
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: It wants to be funny and polished and sometimes even finds that sweet spot. Walker has some interesting ideas and an eye for panache, but the whole leaves much to be desired.
Servants
Sirens
- Excerpt: Truth be told, some more focus on the rest of the members of the group would also be welcome here, but in the end, “Sirens” emerges as an excellent documentary that manages to present the story of the group and its members rather eloquently, and combine it with a series of sociopolitical comments.
Switchback
- Excerpt: Truth be told, in the end, “Switchback” emerges as a mixed bag of a film, particularly since the mystery does not serve a clear purpose, the grown-ups seem unfulfilled as characters, and the presentation of Obu is not exactly one that will make someone wishing to visit the place. On the other hand, and quite mysteriously, the collection of different elements here works quite well, resulting in a movie that holds the viewer from beginning to end, even though the reasons why are not exactly clear
To Be Killed by a High School Girl
- Excerpt: Truth be told, “To Be Killed by a High School Girl” never reaches the level of Miike’s“Lesson of the Evil” that follows a similar narrative path. Nevertheless, it is well shot, the story is quite intriguing in its manga-style premises, and the whole movie emerges as rather entertaining, from beginning to end.
2021 Films
Spider-Man: No Way Home
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West Side Story
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The Worst Person in the World
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Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia
- Excerpt: whether someone likes “Anachronic Chronicles” or not lies utterly on how interested they are in experimentation, as this originality is essentially the only appeal of the movie.
Ascension
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Dark Red Forest
- Excerpt: Not much more to say, “Dark Red Forest” is an astonishing movie that definitely deserves to be watched on the big screen.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
- Excerpt: Not much more to say, “Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time” is an astonishing finale to an astonishing restart, and a film that is very difficult to describe its quality in writing. Better go watch it ASAP.
Leave Me Alone
- Excerpt: Granted, the story maybe goes a bit too far on what is happening, particularly in Loong’s arc, but in general, the movie emerges as a rather entertaining watch, equally for its story, comments, and visuals, in a rather hopeful debut
On Stage
- Excerpt: In the end, and on a personal note, the documentary made me to want to meet Brother Long (and have a drink or two with him) and also to search about the music of “Second Hand Rose”, which I guess fulfilled the purpose of the film, even if Zhang Yaoyuan chose a sideway route to achieve it.
Writing with Fire
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: By following Suneeta’s meteoric rise and Shyamkali’s more gradual ascent, the filmmakers can expose just how good Meera is at leading by example and through effective lessons to better those around her and ultimately help achieve their common goal.
