”It’s the best baseball movie since Bull Durham — or maybe Bad Lieutenant — because it explores this sport’s peculiar ability to bend and distort time. As the shadows on Soldiers Field get longer, an elegiac ache settles in. Eephus is more than a movie about a game, it’s about reaching a time in your life when it feels like it’s getting late earlier and earlier.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/13/2025

”A droll marriage comedy disguised as an espionage thriller, making clever and sometimes fiendishly funny use of Blanchett’s glamourpuss opacity. Good heavens, can she wear these clothes. Black Bag plays to Soderbergh’s strengths: it’s a classy, jazzy, clockwork contraption full of intricate plot machinery and great-looking movie stars doing movie star shit.” – North Shore Movies, 03/13/2025

”A kooky and digressive sci-fi allegory stew that finds the filmmaker indulging some of his silliest whims while burning through $150 million of Warner Bros. Discovery’s money. I have a soft spot for films like this, when auteurs are allowed to run amok with studio resources. There’s something exhilarating about watching an artist get goofy on such an expensive canvas.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/05/2025

”Burns’ beer commercial good looks have served him well in Hollywood rom-coms over the years, and here once again provide motivation for the filmmaker’s favorite themes:  (1.) ‘Look how many beautiful women want to sleep with Edward Burns’ and (2.) ‘These bitches sure are crazy.’ Yeah, it’s awkward sharing a surname with a filmmaker you think sucks.” – North Shore Movies, 02/21/2025

”The funniest movie I’ve seen in months. A marathon of sicko gallows humor that expands and expounds upon King’s short story in ways both irreverent and playfully profound, it’s a cathartically comic burlesque of gag-inducing set-pieces, rivaling the Final Destination films for Rube Goldberg death scenes. God help me, I laughed like a hyena.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/20/2025

”Zellweger has two Oscars, and one of them should have been for playing Bridget. (The other should have been for Jerry Maguire.) She can still pull off the randy, granny-panty humor, while her crinkly smile is suited to a sequel that’s funny but also heavier of heart. Zellweger and Grant knock the raunchy banter back and forth with a genuinely moving affection.” – North Shore Movies, 02/14/2025

”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