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: Nov. 22, 2024
Wide (United States)
Gladiator II
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Wicked
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Limited (United States)
Flow
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: From the first frame of writer/director/cinematographer/editor Gints Zilbalodis’ stunning animation, that of our unnamed black cat looking at its reflection in water, a foreshadowing of its world to come, we know we are in for something special.
- Excerpt: The Latvian film is part brilliant experiment, part cutesy animal movie, but engrossing for all audiences—even if it might, like Fantasia, stick uncomfortably in the memories of the youngest in attendance.
2024 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
All We Imagine as Light
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Conclave
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Emilia Pérez
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A Real Pain
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Red One
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Animale
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: In the end, Animale is about how far too many men see both animals and women as consumable for their entertainment and satisfaction.
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
- Excerpt: “I’m gonna touch that part that you didn’t even know was there.”
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
- Excerpt: Barbara Robinson’s 1972 book about the “worst children in the world” taking all the lead roles in a church Christmas pageant has been lovingly adapted by director Dallas Jenkins into a warm-hearted film that glows with the message of hope and kindness.
Black Box Diaries
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Using confessional phone video, a camera crew, security camera footage and television news, Itô weaves together a personal story with far reaching implications.
Bring Them Down
Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: The bleak drama might be a little too woolly for some.
Daytime Revolution
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Erik Nelson takes us back over fifty years, beginning with a montage of newsreel footage…to remind us that a divided America was once being led by a corrupt president, while outspoken political idealists offered a different perspective.
Detained
- Excerpt: Too many plot twists spoil the broth
Do Patti
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Frida
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Using (Kahlo’s) own journal entries and artwork, Frida explores her life both external and internal.
I Am: Celine Dion
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: I Am: Celine Dion takes us into her private world, one shaken by a very rare disease that may cripple her body but not her spirit.
Memoir of a Snail
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The detail to craft is impossible to ignore. Where it stands apart from its ilk, though, is the darkly comic subject matter that pulls zero punches.
Merchant Ivory: The Documentary
- Excerpt: In a word, their films were classy, bringing a taste of high-brow culture to the movie screen and thus to towns all over America.
A Mother Apart
- Excerpt: “What happened to me was not my own fault.”
Out of My Mind
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It is a peek through a window few people can have access to, and it results in a story that, while a tad predictable and at times saccharine, has a lot to say about the way the American education system treats disabled people and minorities in general.
The Piano Lesson
- Excerpt: In The Piano Lesson, the ghosts are as tangible as they’ve ever been, and the film barely containing them is as weathered and tense as any family in need of a séance.
Street Trash
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: One thing this version of Street Trash does even better than the original is take a direct, very deliberate stand on the side of the oppressed against those who all too often violently oppress them.
Woman of the Hour
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It ends up being a mesmerising thriller, through which Kendrick demonstrates a keen eye for image composition, blocking, and camera movements. It’s a fictionalised true story that ends up feeling depressingly relevant.
