“One of the highlights is a honey of a performance by Richard Roundtree as an old flame of Fonda’s trying to rekindle their relationship. These two have got killer chemistry, enough to make you wish we’d gotten to see Shaft and Barbarella knock boots back in the day. This might be the first time I’ve spent a movie rooting for two octogenarians to get it on.” – North Shore Movies, 03/18/2023

“What’s left is the not inconsiderable pleasure of a fearless performer pushing himself to the brink of madness, but I can name at least a dozen other, better movies in which Willem Dafoe also does that. Inside feels dilettantish and cheap, unable to decide what it wants to say and falling back on empty aphorisms like ‘art is destruction.’ Okay, whatever.” – North Shore Movies, 03/18/2023

“Matt Ruskin’s very 2023 take on the Albert DeSalvo killings re-imagines the story for a new generation as an anachronistic girl-power parable about a stubborn podcaster—oops, I mean reporter—who beats the old boys’ network and cracks the case on her own. The film may take place in the early 1960s, but it couldn’t be more tailored to today’s sensibilities.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/16/2023

“Dour and intensely unpleasant to watch, 65 is the dreariest, most depressing movie ever made about a spaceman using a ray gun to fight dinosaurs. God forbid something like that might be fun. Do you know why James Cameron didn’t show us Newt sobbing inconsolably over the dead bodies of her mom and dad? Because he’s an entertainer, not a sadistic moron.” – North Shore Movies, 03/10/2023

“No points for guessing if an NBA franchise comes calling with a job offer right before the big game, or for predicting it will all come down to a buzzer-beater in the final seconds. Yet there’s comfort in these cliches, a satisfaction in seeing them brought off by characters you have come to care about. There isn’t a surprise in the movie except for how enjoyable it is.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/09/2023

“One wonders what mischief some diabolically clever writers working in the subversive spirit of the first film might have wrung from current horror crazes like the artsy-fartsy tropes of A24, Blumhouse social issue soapboxes or the spate of soccer moms addicted to grisly murder podcasts. Instead, they just make Scream movies about other Scream movies.” – North Shore Movies, 03/08/2023

“Guy Ritchie’s laid-back, low-stakes caper comedy feels like the third or fourth installment of a forgotten franchise, one of those late-series entries where everybody’s happy to see each other again and nobody is going to be accused of over-exerting themselves. This is not a knock. The whole charm of the film is how breezy and blessedly inconsequential it is.” – North Shore Movies, 03/03/2023

“Jordan is a famously rabid anime fan and has visualized the film’s boxing sequences as boldly expressionistic flights of symbolic fantasy. But he’s let down in a big way by cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau, who flattens all these evocative images out into a hazy, soft-focus, low-contrast digital blur. I hate that this is what movies look like now.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/02/2023

“It’s through these sad eyes that we see the movie, glimpsed in half-understood fragments of an adult world Cáit can’t quite comprehend yet. Bairéad keeps the camera low to the ground or banished to the backseat of the car, focusing on the kind of stray details that burn into a child’s memory. It’s a delicate film of small gestures and the slow building of trust.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/28/2023

“This is slovenly meme shit designed to be lapped up by insecure audiences desperate to feel like they’re hip and in on the joke, no matter that there isn’t one. The screening resounded with such performative over-laughing; the intense brays and forced conviviality of folks insisting you understand that they are cool, and that they get it. It’s a bear on cocaine.” – North Shore Movies, 02/24/2023