“Genial fuckarounds for the genuinely gifted Sandler and his moderately talented posse, these Happy Madison films felt so insulting when you had to make the actual effort to drive somewhere and hand over your hard-earned money to see them, but now that they just pop up unsolicited on Netflix I suppose there are worse ways to kill a couple of hours.” – North Shore Movies, 10/07/2020

“Director Garrett Bradley does something fascinating with all this home video footage. Instead of presenting a straight chronology or clearly delineated flashbacks, she and editor Gabriel Rhodes have collapsed past and present into one big continuous reverie, allowing snippets of scenes old and new to soar away on a gorgeous solo piano score.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 10/07/2020

“Despite the delightful counterintuitive casting of America’s mom Phylicia Rashad as a mad scientist, it’s a flat, cheap-looking film with borderline hilarious ‘science-fiction’ props, like a web of produce department plastic draped over the head of our protagonist while a bank of computer modules beep and blink like the navigation system in The Black Hole.” – North Shore Movies, 10/06/2020

“Art is how we cope. It helps us heal, and I’m not sure I’ve seen a more beautiful exploration of this process than Kirsten Johnson’s prankishly funny and enormously moving documentary about caring for her father as he struggles with dementia and their family prepares for the inevitable. Sounds like barrel of laughs, I know. But trust me on this one.” – North Shore Movies, 10/02/2020

“An extraordinary piece of work and one of the most quietly radical in a career spanning six decades. Wiseman wants us to reflect on all the essential roles that public institutions play in our daily lives. It’s the movie’s view that cities have certain responsibilities to their citizens and that this is necessary and noble work, even when it inevitably falls short.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 09/25/2020

“I thought the whole point of making movies about leggy female assassins in evening gowns was to give us a little eye candy, but Ava can’t even find a single flattering angle on any of the beautiful actresses in this cast. I know not even Luc Besson really knows how to make Luc Besson movies anymore, but at least he can still photograph women.” – North Shore Movies, 09/24/2020

“This isn’t gentrification, but something more insidious that’s the subject of this blood-boiling new documentary by Fredrik Gertten. See, all those shiny, empty silos cluttering up the skylines are investment properties that in a lot of cases can’t be bothered with miniscule matters like tenants. Your rent’s chump change. This is big business.” – North Shore Movies, 09/24/2020

“The one actor who gets it is Robert Pattinson, delivering a gorgeously florid turn as the horndog preacher who corrupts underage Lenora. He plays the town’s new pastor like he’s Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married, with an accent from outer space and a preening self-regard that works like a defibrillator on the morose movie surrounding him.” – North Shore Movies, 09/20/2020

“It plays like a very special episode of Sam & Kat in which Sam needs an abortion, and the massive mismatch between tone and content made me think of that scene in Natural Born Killers when Rodney Dangerfield viciously abuses his sitcom family to canned laughter and applause from a studio audience. The whiplash dissonance is obscene.” – North Shore Movies, 09/12/2020

“Tsai Ming-Liang’s playful pandemic romance is a story of lonely hearts in quarantine, longing for love amid the day-to-day drudgery of life during lockdown. It’s a deadpan musical about seeking a friend for the end of the world, following two characters who seldom speak but fall for one another through a hole in the ceiling. I love this movie.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 09/11/2020