”This kind of thing is trickier than it looks. For every Knives Out or Only Murders In The Building you get a dozen Death On The Niles. Successful mystery sendups need to also work as examples of the genre, but the list of suspects in See How They Run contains no persons of interest, at least as far as the audience is concerned. Motives abound, none compelling.” – North Shore Movies, 09/15/2022

”Smith resides in a creative mausoleum of his own making, writing movies that aren’t just movies about other movies, they’re movies about other Kevin Smith movies. In Clerks III, the afterlife is depicted as a cruddy multiplex screening the first two Clerks films on an eternal loop, a purgatory to which followers of this once-promising career may feel already condemned.” – North Shore Movies, 09/11/2022

“Robert hangs out all day in a comic book shop where everyone’s trying to out-snob each other, bolstering their street cred with assorted esoterica that nobody could possibly care about beyond these walls. While I came of age in video and record stores instead of comic shops, the film still prompted chills of recognition from this particular critic.” – North Shore Movies, 08/26/2022

“Bardem’s Blanco cuts costs by cruelly laying off longtime employees, covers for cronies who can’t do their jobs properly, uses the company’s internship program as a dating pool and generally embodies every awful trait of the avaricious and overcompensated executives who make our world a more miserable place. You also can’t help but kinda like him.” – North Shore Movies, 08/26/2022

“George Miller’s cerebral fantasia is the kind of oddball, beguilingly personal project an artist makes after a smashing success like Fury Road, cashing in $60 million worth of goodwill on his obsessions and personal peccadilloes. It’s a deeply weird flight of fancy, alternating heady discussions with the most miraculous images you’ll see all year.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/24/2022

“Here we go again with the grief. I feel like I just wrote this review a week ago for Fall but it bears repeating that not every survival movie needs to be a therapy session. When they inevitably remake Jaws in a few years it’s gonna be all about Brody coming to terms with some tragic nautical trauma in his past instead of just killing the shark because it eats people.” – North Shore Movies, 08/22/2022

“With a lush Pino Donaggio score referencing a whole history of sultry Italian thrillers, I think maybe the movie is trying to undercut erotic intrigue with chain restaurant banality. There’s so much dead air and aimless standing around I just assumed the project was an improvisational exercise, and was later aghast to learn that an actual screenplay had been written.” – North Shore Movies, 08/22/2022

“I suppose one could argue that Sara DeLappe’s tart, cruelly amusing screenplay is shooting fish in a barrel. But some of us have had it up to here with movies that are more like group hugs and the annoyingly popular insistence that art has to be somehow aspirational, so it’s refreshing when a film comes along that’s this content to be a bitch.” – North Shore Movies, 08/11/2022

“An intensely nerve-wracking experience for acrophobics like yours truly. Fall’s attempts at character-driven drama are fumbling at best, but it hardly matters because the situation is such a goddamn nightmare I watched the film curled up in the fetal position on my couch, palms sweating profusely and testicles ascended to somewhere above my sternum.” – North Shore Movies, 08/11/2022

“It’s a smart concept, stripping the series of its increasingly unwieldly sci-fi world-building and sending it satisfyingly back to basics for a breathless run through the woods, pitting the sophisticated alien weaponry against primitive bows-and-arrows and plucky human ingenuity. You also get to see the Predator fight a bear. Which is awesome.” – North Shore Movies, 08/06/2022