”Phoenix’s pouty performance is going to be controversial, with lines like ‘Destiny brought me to this lamb chop’ already breaking the internet. I think he’s a hoot, and Vanessa Kirby’s magnetically imperious Joesphine is every bit as delightful, constantly calling her husband’s bluffs in a randy, dom-sub relationship that’s practically a dirty comedy act.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/21/2023

”A sumptuously photographed, pansexual sleaze-feast with a thing for mood lighting and bodily fluids. When the movie’s really cooking it plays like Pasolini’s Teorema by way of Cruel Intentions. This is all fine, disreputable fun until what might be the stupidest, most misguided ending I’ve seen since… well, since Fennell’s previous picture, Promising Young Woman.” – North Shore Movies, 11/21/2023

”Haynes stages their scenes together with the two side-by-side, staring into mirrors, so we can better see Moore’s physicality bleeding into Portman’s. May December belongs to a rich tradition of great directors doing Persona riffs, like David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive or Robert Altman’s 3 Women. But there’s more going on here than mimicry and homage.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/16/2023

”What’s so disappointing about Thanksgiving is that Roth has scrapped the sleazy, Reagan-era aesthetic of his original Grindhouse trailer and instead made an homage to a much lamer and tamer era of slasher movies. This is a crappy Scream knockoff with bad New England accents. It might as well be called I Know What You Did Last November.” – North Shore Movies, 11/16/2023

“It’s a fantastic premise, but it hasn’t been fully fleshed out into a story. Writer-director Borgli’s previous picture, the Norwegian import Sick Of Myself, ran out of places to go after about an hour. Faced with a similar impasse, Dream Scenario settles for being a facile satire of celebrity cancel culture. You can feel the film’s ambitions shrinking as it goes along.” – North Shore Movies, 11/16/2023

”Anyway, I’m assured this is very different from the 32 previous Marvel movies because this time they’re looking for a glowing magic space bracelet instead of a glowing magic space rock glove. Entirely different accessory, but the movie still ends with everyone trying to close an interdimensional portal, because sometimes you gotta play the hits.” – North Shore Movies, 11/10/2023

“For most folks, I’d imagine the idea of being stuck in an airport overnight with an ex-girlfriend sounds more like a horror movie than a romantic comedy. But Ryan’s going after something a little bumpier and bittersweet. This interestingly confused picture roots through some of her more ambivalent feelings about the genre she came to define in the 1990s.” – North Shore Movies, 11/08/2023

”Smiling wide and showing off the missing teeth a Mississippi cop knocked out of his mouth in 1948, Rustin holds his omnipresent cigarette like a film noir femme fatale and revs up the room like Little Richard. Domingo is so much fun to watch in the role, the supporting cast doesn’t so much share scenes with him as they try to stay out of his way.” – North Shore Movies, 11/03/2023

”The design of the film is exquisite, like Marie Antoinette gone to Memphis. Coppola uses costumes and settings to express what the characters cannot. She’s an incredibly sophisticated filmmaker, able to convey complicated power dynamics through her placement of actors in relation to their surroundings. It’s a tale told through images and things left unsaid.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/02/2022

“By bumping the arrival of Tom White and his federal agents to the film’s third hour, they’ve transformed a procedural into an inquiry, using DiCaprio’s irrepressible magnetism to plumb the depths of denial and culpability amid an atrocity, an unsettling examination of soul sick men who are strangers to themselves. In other words, they turned it into a Scorsese movie.” – North Shore Movies, 10/29/2023