“Luca Guadagnino’s entertainingly trashy provocation pushes the audience’s buttons with fat, clumsy thumbs, tackling issues of race, elitism, power dynamics and consent without having anything substantive or even coherent to say about any of them. Still, there’s a naughty, irresponsible swagger to the picture that’s undeniably fun to watch.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/15/2025
“Every scene in director Mary Bronstein’s sophomore effort is a mini-anxiety attack, rattling in extreme closeups on star Rose Byrne while a cacophonous world roars at and around her, shrieking reminders of her shortcomings as a mother and a human being. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You would probably be unwatchable if it weren’t so horrifically funny.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/15/2025
“Pontecorvo said he wanted the movie to feel like ‘a stolen historical document’ and his groundbreaking appropriation of newsreel techniques blurs the lines between documentary and fiction filmmaking to dizzying effect. Early release prints had a disclaimer informing audiences that no actual news footage was used in the picture. That’s still kind of hard to believe.” – Crooked Marquee, 10/10/2025
“Though it’s a major studio release with big stars, Roofman has the low-key vibe of an indie from the early aughts. The 35mm cinematography and easy authenticity make it feel like something you’d have seen at Sundance around the time when the film is set. Cianfrance has a real eye for everyday life. The places in his movies look like people actually live there.” – North Shore Movies, 10/10/2025
“Such a scenario could easily have tipped into melodrama, but Bigelow has too brusque and businesslike an approach for that. There are no histrionics here, just stray glimpses of humanity as these officials grasp the gravity of the situation. The movie is breathless, understated. A House Of Dynamite leaves you rattled and wrung out.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/09/2024
“‘I’m calling it One Brattle After Another,’ laughed Campbell. The 27 Fall Focus selections span the globe and range from children’s animated adventures to Broadway biopics and drag queen zombie comedies. They’ve got domestic psychodramas, international political thrillers and Julia Roberts yelling at entitled college kids. This place has everything.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/06/2025
“Sora’s film is set at a Japanese private school in a very near future where society is waiting on tenterhooks for an earthquake that’s predicted to cause unprecedented devastation. In the meantime, boys will be boys, and the film follows two class clowns approaching graduation and growing apart. It’s like if Superbad took place on the eve of the apocalypse.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/02/2025
“Linda Linda Linda accumulates ephemeral grace notes and wry asides before blowing the doors off with a euphoric climax of pure punk rock elation, one of the happiest endings I’ve ever seen in a movie. I can still recall exactly where I was sitting at the Brattle that afternoon 20 years ago, because I was practically levitating out of my chair.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/02/2025
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