”The best moments in Dìdi feel lived-in and true. It’s a very savvy movie about growing up online, and will cause Proustian reveries in some viewers with its pointed use of AIM instant messaging sound effects and the emotional devastation of discovering you’re no longer displayed in someone’s MySpace Top 8 friends. (We’ve all been there, Chris.)” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/31/2024
“The Madonna video cut away to scenes from her husband Sean Penn’s new movie, some sort of 1970s heartland crime drama in which the young man squares off with a pistol against a magnificently mustachioed Christopher Walken. It looked like something sinister and adult that eleven-year-old me shouldn’t be watching. Naturally, I was mesmerized.” – Crooked Marquee, 07/26/2024
“Barely a movie, Deadpool & Wolverine is a filmed attempt to realign corporate assets under a new umbrella. Yet the packed theater I was in ate it up, arf-arf-arfing like circus seals at every reference and illustrating just how little people are willing to accept from an entertainment if it makes them feel like part of a community. It will probably make a billion dollars.” – North Shore Movies, 07/26/2024
”It’s a bruiser of a picture, the kind that can be daunting for a lot of audiences. I mean, try being at a barbecue where people are asking you for movie recommendations, then suggest a two-and-a-half-hour, black-and-white drama about the European refugee crisis and see how quickly everyone goes back to talking about the potato salad.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/25/2024
“Watch any scene of a Sofia Coppola picture and you can instantly tell who directed it. These are lush, melancholic movies with carefully embroidered visual schemes floating on pillows of sound. Fuzzy guitars and ethereal synth tones follow our heartsick, usually adolescent protagonists on the cusp of adulthood and self-discovery.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/23/2024
”One can lament the circumstances that have led to the existence of Twisters while also acknowledging that the film itself is — for what it is — actually pretty good. Certainly an improvement on the original and a fun Friday night at the movies, it’s enough to leave you wishing these talented people had been hired to make something more than a sequel to Twister.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/18/2024
“Like a lot of memoirs, Desperately Seeking Something is a largely conciliatory affair, which might be a disappointment to those looking for dish about the outsized personalities she’s worked with over the years. Seidelman’s even generous to a screenwriter she says gave her a case of crabs, going on to praise his script for Making Mr. Right in the same paragraph.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/17/2024
”There’s a wrenching resignation in Kristofferson’s eyes when his demo tapes are ignored by industry players who only called for his drug connections. The movie chronicles an ego death by a thousand pinpricks, the most amusingly brutal being when a groupie played by Joy Bang tells Kristofferson and Stanton that their big hit was her favorite song in junior high.” – Crooked Marquee, 07/12/2024
”One of the most formally confident movies I’ve seen this year. I could go on all day about Perkins’ smart stylistic flourishes and his command of cinematic grammar. What I can’t tell you is what the film is supposed to be about, or why we should be invested beyond the bravura technique. Longlegs is an extremely unsettling experience. It’s also rather an empty one.” – North Shore Movies, 07/12/2024
””It’s interesting to think about a time when Hollywood made movies for adults,’ explains Tamm. ‘What does it say about the end of the 20th century that 25 years on, we’re not making movies like this anymore? Is that necessarily a good thing? I don’t know. There are some deeper, thornier questions in these films that mainstream movies aren’t asking anymore.’” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/10/2024
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