”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

“Like watching a magnificent athlete on a Stairmaster, Fincher’s barebones adaptation of a French comic book series has a story as nondescript as its title, continually distracting itself from the flaccid narrative with the filmmaker’s signature stylistic tics. Absent any visible inspiration or discernible reason for being, it’s a project that exists because it can.” – North Shore Movies, 10/29/2023

”It’s the kind of sophisticated entertainment for adults that one usually has to find overseas or on television these days. In fact, despite being awarded top prize at the world’s foremost film festival, Anatomy Of A Fall feels more like one of those prestige cable miniseries that your co-workers are always going on about on Monday mornings.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/26/2023

“Though a good deal more technically polished and slightly less scatologically obsessed, this strenuously filthy comedy is director Larry Charles’ tribute to the ebullient, transgressive early films of John Waters. The movie tries hard to muster the same shocking, anything-goes energy of a midnight madness screening. Sometimes it tries too hard.” – North Shore Movies, 10/19/2023

“There’s an offhand elegance to the way Almodóvar and his longtime cinematographer José Luis Alcaine construct their scenes that I find immensely pleasing to look at. Images flow into each other with effortless grace. Strange Way Of Life is so easy to watch, these thirty-one minutes seem to pass in five. I know I’m being greedy, but I wanted more.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/05/2023