“These are the works of a merry prankster intoxicated by the possibilities of the medium, pushing at its limitations and discovering there are none. All three stories come to tragic ends, yet what we mostly remember is how funny and cool they are; full of absurdist asides and knowing nods, flights of sublime silliness amid stylish poses and half-kidding crime plots.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/10/2022
“A titillating semiotic exercise, sending up gender roles and inverting the vampire mythos with results both provocative and ridiculous. Foregrounding female desire while flipping the script on more than just the old vampire tropes about darkness and light, it’s a Dracula tale in which the count is a countess and Mina Harker happens to be a himbo.” – Crooked Marquee, 10/07/2022
“David O. Russell’s top-heavy, Prohibition-era farce lumbers down a very long runway without ever really taking flight. Reckless and sometimes quite silly, nothing about Amsterdam works, per se. And yet, there’s a loopy, eager energy to the picture that inspires a peculiar affection. It’s a blundering mess of a movie, but an endearing one.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/06/2022
“Judging from her first three movies, I still have no idea if writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour is capable of telling a straightforward story. I’m also not sure she’s particularly interested in doing so. The fiercely talented filmmaker is a dazzling designer of environments, creating luminous and dangerous spaces in which her archetypal characters can roam.” – North Shore Movies, 10/06/2022
“So many of the movie’s running gags are about how comfortably gay pop culture has become, including a mercilessly funny flashback to Bobby’s Queer Eye audition and a less successful Brokeback parody. These bits only amplify the disconnect between the picture’s posturing as a milestone and the feeling that it’s awfully late to the party.” – North Shore Movies, 10/02/2022
”It’s a perfect role for Sigourney Weaver, whose crisp, patrician air always seems to be keeping something wilder just barely in check. Directors Forbes and Wolodarsky try to liven things up by having her break the fourth wall and confide in the audience directly, a gimmick that’s been so abused on television as of late I’d be happy to see it retired for a while.” – North Shore Movies, 10/01/2022
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