“The movie mashes up a whole stew of ‘90s action tropes and rips entire pages out of the screenplay for Speed. But since this is another affair from producer Randall Emmett’s cash-strapped crap factory, we can assume most of the film’s funding was divvied up amongst the twenty-eight credited producers as not a lot of dollar value has actually made it onscreen.” – North Shore Movies, 07/01/2022

“It’s all a convoluted way to turn these 1990s relics loose on modern times, and while the world may have changed, Beavis and Butt-head blessedly have not. There are a few flashes of the satirical genius that creator Mike Judge brought to his depressingly prophetic 2006 film Idiocracy, but for the most part, the movie is perfectly content to be brilliantly inane.” – North Shore Movies, 06/29/2022

“In a cleverly counterintuitive choice, the directors keep the camera locked down at a considerable distance from the performers. Any other movie would shove the zaniness in our faces with wacky music and close-ups, but these antics are wryly, amusingly entombed within a still screen full of dead air and empty space. Gargantuan egos have seldom seemed so small.” – North Shore Movies, 06/24/2022

“It’s a movie about a myth, one in which Elvis represents a dream of liberation — musical, sexual, racial — and how that dream was corrupted and commodified by carny-barker capitalists sociopathically sucking every last dollar dry, leaving the singer a druggy, bloated parody of his former promise, catatonic in front of the television. It’s the story of America.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/23/2022

“Abstracting the crimes and potential punishments shifts the threat from a national issue to something more existential, while Panahi’s emphasis on the quotidian, comedic hassles of a family vacation with which we can all identify makes these extraordinary circumstances universal. You realize this could happen to people like us because these people are us.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/22/2022

“Refreshingly irreverent, boasting a more eccentric cast of characters than you’re used to seeing in nature adventure documentaries. That’s probably because you’ve got to be at least a little bit crazy to want to compete in the event in the first place. First prize is ten thousand dollars cash, nailed to a tree at the finish line. Second prize is a set of steak knives.” – North Shore Movies, 06/14/2022

“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