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: Sep. 30, 2022
Wide (United States)
Bros
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The Good House
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Smile
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Limited (United States)
God’s Creatures
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Watson ignites a powerful slow burn as she does a literal and figurative dance with Mescal, their initial reunion portrayed more like lovers than mother and son.
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The coming-of-age of age of a NY meathead who goes off on a well-intentioned lark only to be schooled in a real world fog of war works on an emotional level even if the filmmaking itself is hit and miss.
Spirit Halloween: The Movie
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Little more than a glorified advertisement for Spirit Halloween stores.
Vesper
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This sociological sci-fier…contains an age old message within a stunningly realized post-apocalyptic earth.
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A brainy sci-fi survival tale.
2022 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
Don’t Worry Darling
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A Love Song
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See How They Run
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Athena
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: A blast to the senses – pure adrenaline from start to finish. This is cinematic storytelling at its most primal form.
Bad City
Blonde
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Great filmmaking can’t save ‘Blonde’ from the grotesque, joyless story at its center
Il Boemo
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Quando um filme (que ultrapassa as 2h20 minutos) nos arrebata do início ao final é porque se trata, não só de algo muito apelativo, mas também porque está cuidado nas suas diversas componentes. Il Boemo revê a sua estreia mundial aqui em San Sebastian e é daqueles casos raros (e arriscados), embora totalmente conseguido, arriscando-se mesmo a altíssimos voos.
Brahmastra
Chup
Data Glasses
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
Do Revenge
Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
Great Yarmouth – Provisional Figures
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É o confronto entre o homem e o animal que Marco Martins explora com pertinência e arrojo no avassalador Great Yarmouth – Provisional Figures, um filme que partiu a loiça toda na sua apresentação em San Sebastian. E que nos faz viver uma fortíssima experiência de cinema.
Hocus Pocus 2
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Every bit as awful as the original.
I Didn’t See You There
- Excerpt: Try walking a mile in my chair
Kids vs. Aliens
Lou
- Excerpt: Allison Janney in this role is entertainment for the soul.
Moonage Daydream
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This sonic collage is an invitation to simply bask in the music of the legendary David Bowie.
Moonage Daydream
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Como recriar o universo e o génio de uma personalidade tão multifacetada como David Bowie? Um universo que se espraia ao longo de mais de meio século de música, poesia, arte e uma performance que rendeu diversas gerações.
The Munsters
David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: There was a moment when the Count said, “I can feel my brain cells dying,” and that’s how I felt the same way with each passing minute in its overlong runtime.
Railway Children
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Too dark for kids and too simplistic for adults, it makes a potentially engrossing idea come off as bland and unmemorable.
Red River Road
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a vividly realized, artfully constructed, thoroughly professional piece of work that belies its DIY origins. Schuyler’s slow burn paranoia piece keeps unsettling us by continually shifting our perception…
The Silent Twins
Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
Sniper: The White Raven
- Excerpt: Best to be neither seen nor heard
Solomon King
Sparta
Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O título acima reproduzido seria porventura adequado a suscitar a curiosidade dos leitores à procura da polémica de Sparta, o filme assinado pelo austríaco Ulrich Seidl, apresentado a concurso em San Sebastian, embora já envolto num manto de escândalo. Sobretudo depois da sua programada exibição ter sido vetada do festival de Toronto.
