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: Oct. 30, 2020
Wide (United States)
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Limited (United States)
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2020 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
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Love and Monsters
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Synchronic
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Ava
Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Baby Done
- Excerpt: The cinema of New Zealand is varied and diverse: half of it stars Taika Waititi, while the other half is just produced by him.
Beasts Clawing at Straws
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Yong-hoon keeps so many plates spinning in the air his pacing will leave you breathless… Best of all, the filmmaker knows just who to leave holding his bag.
Black Box
Mark Harris @ Black Horror Movies
The Boys Who Said NO!
Andrea Chase @ Eat Drink Films
- Excerpt: Too important a film to be missed.
Breaking Fast
Cicada
Cowboys
The Craft: Legacy
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Lister-Jones has developed a story outline which follows the themes of the first…and adds additional new layers of gender and sexual orientation fluidity and how those threaten the patriarchy.
Fishbowl
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: What is most compelling about their debut, though, is their command of tone, their film imbued not only with the heightened drama of the teenaged girl’s point of view of the aforementioned “Virgin Suicides,” but the doomed romanticism of “Picnic at Hanging Rock” and the art house horror of “Take Shelter.”
His House
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Pay attention to the film’s opening minutes which both inform the couple’s upcoming haunting and misinform us by leading us to make assumptions which will be shockingly upended.
J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: One comes away with the feeling that the church is a yardstick by which the society at large can be measured by its reaction to it.
Kadaver
Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Measure for Measure
- Excerpt: What price, redemption?
Nationtime
- Excerpt: So many of the topics raised in 1972 are depressingly even more urgent today. The landmark civil rights legislation of the ’60s created new opportunities for equality and progress but it did not deliver them.
Rebecca
Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Rebecca
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: This remake almost passed the test. But Hitchcock’s version is the best.
Resisterhood
- Excerpt: To connect and support
Rialto
- Excerpt: So…sorry
Shithouse
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
- Excerpt: It proves to be more sensitive than you would think from its vulgar title.
The Strong Ones
Summer of 85
Tales from the Hood 3
Mark Harris @ Black Horror Movies
Totally Under Control
Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Totally Under Control lays out its arguments with sobering facts and a chilling style. Gibney and his co-directors have made a vital and damning piece of reportage that will act as a roadmap after this is all over.
Vampires vs. the Bronx
Mark Harris @ Black Horror Movies
The Witches
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: It doesn’t add all that much as an adaptation, compared to the 1990 version, but it’s a perfectly servicable family film with just enough flourishes from Robert Zemeckis that evoke his early whimsical adventures.
Wolfman’s Got Nards
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: A warm, fuzzy hug of a documentary.
World of Tomorrow 3
- Excerpt: A time-traversing love story set at the precipice of the apocalypse. Ready?
2019 Films
Slaughterhouse Rulez
Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
2018 Films
London Fields
Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
