”The problem with The Gorge is, well, the gorge. While the unexpectedly delightful first hour is given over to the pleasures of watching attractive, charismatic people fall for each other – something we see entirely too little of at the movies these days – it devolves into an uninspired, splattery shoot ‘em up full of dodgy CGI and hackneyed leaps of forehead-smacking illogic.” – North Shore Movies, 02/14/2025

”While it was admittedly idiotic of me to go looking for ideas in a $180 million Disney movie, for that price one should expect at least a modicum of craft. And on that level Brave New World is a catastrophe. This is an appalling-looking film, shot in TV standard medium closeups with a smear of fake film grain spackled over the image like an ugly Instagram filter.” – North Shore Movies, 02/14/2025

“You’ve got to have a lot of confidence to come up with a scene like that. But then it’s not surprising that Tøndel has got such swagger, given that he’s the grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann. Armand is awesomely audacious and drunk on its own technique, though sometimes you might wish there was a bit more to the movie than audacity alone.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/13/2025

“There are worse ways to spend two hours than listening to Led Zeppelin songs being blasted through an IMAX sound system, where the rhythm section’s bottom-heavy bombast rattles the walls. It’s also hard not to feel some affection for these kindly grandpas sitting around the library, wistfully reminiscing about when they used to wield the hammer of the gods.” – North Shore Movies, 02/07/2025

”The film depicts the dehumanizing process by which people are forced to watch helplessly as their homes and schools are bulldozed. It asks that we watch, too. I get why No Other Land might sound like a tough sell. But the thing about excellent films is that they deserve to be seen, even if the filmmakers have to bring them around from theater to theater themselves.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/06/2025