EMILY

“So little is known about Emily’s actual life and times that the film is free to indulge in thrillingly salacious speculations. O’Connor gins up a randy melodrama of missed connections, undelivered letters and deathbed confessions in the doomy, romantic spirit of her subject. It’s a very modern movie about the idea of being Emily Brontë, misfit of the moors.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/23/2023

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FULL TIME


“A film for anyone who has ever anxiously sweat through those endless seconds after the cashier swipes your card while you’re wondering if the payment will be approved. It’s a panic attack of a movie about a single mom during a week when ends won’t quite meet, and how sometimes it takes the stamina of a superhero just to get through the goddamn day.” – North Shore Movies, 02/17/2023

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ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA


”Not a movie so much as a scaffolding site for the perpetuation of more Marvel product. There’s no longer any difference between the coming attractions and the feature. These days, the world’s largest entertainment franchise is capable only of churning out advertisements for itself. At what point does this slop finally become insulting to its target audience?” – North Shore Movies, 02/15/2023

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MARLOWE


“On paper this all sounds perfect, yet almost nothing in the picture works. I found myself leaning forward in my seat, wondering why I wasn’t enjoying it more. The past fifteen years of trashy action films have clearly taken their toll on Neeson. One should never come away from a femme fatale seduction scene thinking the detective needs a nap.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/14/2023

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MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE


“Soderbergh is back in the director’s chair, using Mike as a prism for another crisis or two. Very much a post-pandemic and post-#MeToo movie, on the surface it’s an old-fashioned musical. But look closer and you’ll see a more serious film about artists in transition, trying to figure out paths forward in the new normals when the old ways aren’t working anymore.” – North Shore Movies, 02/10/2023

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ONE FINE MORNING

“She doesn’t over-accentuate anything for the camera, and you’ll never catch her actors acting. Events both life-changing and banal unfold within the same, steady rhythms of ordinary, everyday existence. Such understatement can make Hansen-Løve’s films feel a little anticlimactic while you’re watching them, but they linger in the memory longer than most.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/09/2023

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KNOCK AT THE CABIN


“Like an even more explicitly religious revision of Signs with a former wrestler instead of alien invaders. Behind the camera, Shyamalan is precise, inventive and keeps a lot of the action offscreen to make your mind do the dirty work. He also still can’t write, which is a problem when you’re trying to parse as many big ideas as this picture keeps throwing around.” – North Shore Movies, 02/03/2023

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80 FOR BRADY


“There’s no way to look at the groundbreaking career achievements of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno or Sally Field and feel good about watching this slapdash sponsored content, a shrine to an increasingly weird Florida Man producing his own unseemly vanity project. Is this the best Hollywood can offer these women who have given the movies so much?” – North Shore Movies, 02/02/2023

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INFINITY POOL


“The film’s escalating escapades of sicko violence are punctuated by psychedelic drug freakouts and semi-pornographic dream orgies. It’s an awful lot, yet somehow still not quite enough. Thank goodness then, for our newly crowned scream queen Mia Goth, following up last year’s seismic performance in Pearl as an entirely different kind of chaos agent.” – North Shore Movies, 01/26/2023

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MAYBE I DO

“Looks and sounds so much like the kind of film you want it to be that if you’re willing to squint, you can let it slide. Maybe I Do may be little more than Nancy Meyers karaoke, but at least someone’s still trying to sing these songs. One hopes that if the nostalgia for this sort of picture continues, we might finally get one that’s actually good instead of just good enough.” – North Shore Movies, 01/26/2023

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