“Given the increasingly likely possibility that it will not have another, one can’t really be blamed for wanting to celebrate America’s 246th birthday by getting lost. Luckily it’s a big country, and the Brattle Theatre has a dozen movies screening over the next ten days that rack up more interstate mileage than an entire season of Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/30/2022
“It’s all a convoluted way to turn these 1990s relics loose on modern times, and while the world may have changed, Beavis and Butt-head blessedly have not. There are a few flashes of the satirical genius that creator Mike Judge brought to his depressingly prophetic 2006 film Idiocracy, but for the most part, the movie is perfectly content to be brilliantly inane.” – North Shore Movies, 06/29/2022
“In a cleverly counterintuitive choice, the directors keep the camera locked down at a considerable distance from the performers. Any other movie would shove the zaniness in our faces with wacky music and close-ups, but these antics are wryly, amusingly entombed within a still screen full of dead air and empty space. Gargantuan egos have seldom seemed so small.” – North Shore Movies, 06/24/2022
“It’s a movie about a myth, one in which Elvis represents a dream of liberation — musical, sexual, racial — and how that dream was corrupted and commodified by carny-barker capitalists sociopathically sucking every last dollar dry, leaving the singer a druggy, bloated parody of his former promise, catatonic in front of the television. It’s the story of America.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/23/2022
“Abstracting the crimes and potential punishments shifts the threat from a national issue to something more existential, while Panahi’s emphasis on the quotidian, comedic hassles of a family vacation with which we can all identify makes these extraordinary circumstances universal. You realize this could happen to people like us because these people are us.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/22/2022
“It’s the first non-musical directed by Garland’s then-beau and future husband Vincente Minnelli, who coordinates the teeming Times Square and bustling subway stations like choruses. His camera captures such a pulsating sense of big city life the film is commonly mistaken as being filmed on location, when in actuality it was all shot on the MGM lot.“ – Crooked Marquee, 06/17/2022
“A tawdry, ten-hour miniseries about the making of The Godfather that’s so hilariously full of shit I can’t take my eyes off it. Normally I like to say there should be no such things as guilty pleasures, and if any work of art brings you enjoyment in this cold, rotten world you’ve got no reason to be ashamed of that. But we’ll make an exception for The Offer.” – North Shore Movies, 06/16/2022
“Refreshingly irreverent, boasting a more eccentric cast of characters than you’re used to seeing in nature adventure documentaries. That’s probably because you’ve got to be at least a little bit crazy to want to compete in the event in the first place. First prize is ten thousand dollars cash, nailed to a tree at the finish line. Second prize is a set of steak knives.” – North Shore Movies, 06/14/2022
“It’s 51 minutes into Something Wild when Ray Liotta makes his entrance and knocks the entire film off its axis. This genial, sexy comedy has suddenly become incredibly scary, and the following hour’s nerve-racking, seasick sensations are almost entirely attributable to this up-and-coming young actor with the too-loud laugh and terrifying eyes.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/14/2022
“Trevorrow’s inexplicably popular 2015 Jurassic World proceeded from the notion that jaded theme park audiences had grown bored with these majestic creatures, so it makes a sad sort of sense that the filmmakers would eventually as well. Jurassic World Dominion is a dinosaur movie with no particular interest in dinosaurs. The animals serve mainly as nuisances.” – North Shore Movies, 06/10/2022
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