“My favorite part of this past Sunday’s ceremony was when Creed III stars Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors gave out the award for Best Cinematography, turning the presentation into a delightful two-minute film school class before the nominees were read. It was fun to watch, and you learned a little something about how movies are made.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/16/2023
“Dour and intensely unpleasant to watch, 65 is the dreariest, most depressing movie ever made about a spaceman using a ray gun to fight dinosaurs. God forbid something like that might be fun. Do you know why James Cameron didn’t show us Newt sobbing inconsolably over the dead bodies of her mom and dad? Because he’s an entertainer, not a sadistic moron.” – North Shore Movies, 03/10/2023
“No points for guessing if an NBA franchise comes calling with a job offer right before the big game, or for predicting it will all come down to a buzzer-beater in the final seconds. Yet there’s comfort in these cliches, a satisfaction in seeing them brought off by characters you have come to care about. There isn’t a surprise in the movie except for how enjoyable it is.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/09/2023
“One wonders what mischief some diabolically clever writers working in the subversive spirit of the first film might have wrung from current horror crazes like the artsy-fartsy tropes of A24, Blumhouse social issue soapboxes or the spate of soccer moms addicted to grisly murder podcasts. Instead, they just make Scream movies about other Scream movies.” – North Shore Movies, 03/08/2023
“I know that there’s dialogue in Beau Travail, but I’ll be damned if I can ever remember any. Denis tells the story almost entirely through physicality and movement. Throbbing with barely-repressed homoeroticism, the movie is a mass of engorged muscles and entwined limbs; desire rerouted through conformity and cruelty in the rhythm of the night.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/06/2023
“Guy Ritchie’s laid-back, low-stakes caper comedy feels like the third or fourth installment of a forgotten franchise, one of those late-series entries where everybody’s happy to see each other again and nobody is going to be accused of over-exerting themselves. This is not a knock. The whole charm of the film is how breezy and blessedly inconsequential it is.” – North Shore Movies, 03/03/2023
“Jordan is a famously rabid anime fan and has visualized the film’s boxing sequences as boldly expressionistic flights of symbolic fantasy. But he’s let down in a big way by cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau, who flattens all these evocative images out into a hazy, soft-focus, low-contrast digital blur. I hate that this is what movies look like now.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/02/2023
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