“Trevorrow’s inexplicably popular 2015 Jurassic World proceeded from the notion that jaded theme park audiences had grown bored with these majestic creatures, so it makes a sad sort of sense that the filmmakers would eventually as well. Jurassic World Dominion is a dinosaur movie with no particular interest in dinosaurs. The animals serve mainly as nuisances.” – North Shore Movies, 06/10/2022
“An ebullient, well-meaning celebration of sex-positivity, if a little thin. Liu’s trying to counterbalance a culture dominated by Puritanical finger-wagging and slut-shaming, but his approach is also tediously one-note and tends to sap all the danger and mystery from human sexuality, defanging the desires that we often allow to run, and sometimes ruin, our lives.” – North Shore Movies, 06/06/2022
“Director Terence Davies’ splendidly scripted, boldly stylized biopic of the early 20th-century war poet Siegfried Sassoon is a movie madly in love with words in all their pleasures and poisons. It’s about words as weapons, how they can prick and protect and give us places to hide. This is a fine film to watch but an even more enjoyable one to listen to.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 06/03/2022
“It’s a kick to watch these characters sashay their way through Austen’s timeless tale with margaritas in hand, peppering the traditional rom-com trappings with some spectacularly naughty banter. Fire Island is proudly, indefatigably dirty in ways that movies about minorities are often too timid to be, weighed down by the burdens of representation and role models.” – North Shore Movies, 06/03/2022
“You’ll find bits and pieces of a lot of his previous films in this one, which feels like a cross between a greatest hits album and a grand summation of conversations Cronenberg has been having with audiences since the 1970s. It’s all played as a horny, poker-faced comedy of manners, trying to get you turned on and grossed out at the same time.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 06/01/2022
“Outrageously entertaining, boasting the most exquisitely choreographed action sequences since Mad Max: Fury Road. The movie, like its main character, is a relic from another era, somehow still buzzing the tower of a world that’s passed it by. This is the kind of massively-scaled, old-fashioned crowd-pleaser you probably thought Hollywood forgot how to make.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/26/2022
“Dávila’s script won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance, I’m guessing on the strength of this premise. Their journey across campus is like a frat comedy remake of The Wages Of Fear, except instead of transporting nitroglycerin through the jungle they’re carrying a passed-out white girl across an ocean of privilege, which might be even more dangerous.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/19/2022
“Pained monologues are delivered, pondering the ruins of the white man’s settler colonialism while the minority characters nonetheless remain on the margins, speaking like sentient fortune cookies. It’s all very staid and reverential and rather annoyingly enamored of its own importance. But I’ll tell you, that Haley Lu Richardson sure can pluck a chicken.” – North Shore Movies, 05/19/2022
“The 28th official MCU entry is tasked with managing not just movie continuity but also that of several streaming Disney+ programs. I’ve seen all these movies and watched some of the shows, yet still found Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness nigh-incomprehensible most of the time, like I was bluffing my way through a class for which I hadn’t done the reading.” – North Shore Movies, 05/06/2022
“But you do get to see Cage play with the gold prop pistols he fired in Face/Off, so once again, congratulations on catching another over-explained reference to another movie you’d be better off watching instead. Don’t get me started on the lame contortions the screenplay twists itself into so he can say, ‘Not the bees!’ This is Shatner-level self-parody.” – North Shore Movies, 04/22/2022
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