“Notoriously played by Nicolas Cage as a pompadoured tsunami of hormones and adolescent anxiety, Charlie is one of the actor’s great gonzo turns. Much to his leading lady’s horror, Cage based Charlie’s voice on that of Gumby’s pal Pokey and wears an oversized dental prosthetic throughout the picture, exhaling his lines in an adenoidal whine.” – Crooked Marquee, 11/06/2026
“The movie is a mix of reminiscences and candid footage from the final year of Shea’s life, complete with collages of poetry, puppetry, animated reenactments and entomological asides. It’s all suffused with a touching generosity, as Fitch fumbles about trying to hang on to the memory of a dear friend and figure out how best to share her with the world.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 11/06/2026
“It’s Malkovich’s meatiest role in decades. His slurry, insouciant line readings are imbued with a child’s naughty self-satisfaction, yet we can never be sure how much of this is an act he’s putting on. There’s a wily old spy lurking beneath all the inappropriate outbursts, cunningly aware that this trip is part of a forced retirement plan he might not choose to accept.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/04/2026
“Really more of a situation than a story. Kreutzer doesn’t come up with plot complications so much as she sometimes lobs an ironic counterpoint here and there, calling attention to how little Gentle Monster is interested in the victims of these crimes, or in anything outside the perspective of a blameless female artist who was deceived and wronged.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 11/02/2026
“It feels less like a political documentary and more akin to the work of Sophy Romvari, whose Blue Heron was the highlight of IFFBoston’s spring festival and one of the best films released this year. Ahangarani is similarly interested in examining her family history through artifacts while asserting her presence behind the camera and in the editing room.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 10/30/2026
“While there’s something to be said for curling up on the couch under a blanket to watch scary movies, being frightened at home alone can’t compare to screaming along with hundreds of strangers in the dark. A benefit of living in one of the greatest repertory cinema cities in the world is that the month of October is stuffed silly with big-screen fright-fests.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/29/2026
“It’s a self-conscious salute to a sort of picture I happen to miss quite dearly, so I was an easy mark walking in the door. Writer-director Noah Segan is trying to do for the New York indie crime movie what Sam Peckinpah did for studio Westerns with Ride The High Country, rounding up some beloved old cowboys for one last, wistful ride.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/28/2026
“It’s not hard to see the pattern in writer-director Cristian Mungiu’s movies of individuals being abused by inflexible institutions, but Fjord has caused a stir for flipping the script so that the victims are the people we usually see presented as the bullies. A friend described it as an inverted Footloose, and I honestly can’t do better than that.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 10/25/2026
Both Blake Howard and I were enormously moved by Eleanor Coppola’s behind-the-scenes chronicle of her daughter’s massively ambitious Marie Antoniette, a movie to which time has been much kinder than either of us were at the time. My two big takeways: I don’t know how this film only cost 40 million dollars and I don’t know how anyone makes movies with men. – One Heat Minute, 10/25/2026
“‘It’s daunting,’ admitted longtime Somerville Theatre manager and new co-owner Ian Judge, who will be celebrating his 25th year at the venue next May. ‘But we see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save these theaters for future generations. We’ve got great customer support, so I feel like the trajectory is good. This is like a weird little miracle to me.’” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/23/2026
