“This is a film about how a tiny gesture can make a huge difference to people during a difficult time, and how the most minuscule things sometimes mean the world. Delicately directed by the young filmmaker Andrew Ahn, it’s a movie about neighbors that’s also about what it means to be a neighbor. And it somehow does all of this without ever raising its voice.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/07/2020

“But whenever the gore threatens to overwhelm the story, Barnaby tosses in a savvy little historical riff or a knowing reference, like when a grieving white dad tries to bring his daughter’s infected blanket onto the reservation. Blood Quantum is smart genre filmmaking with a lot on its mind, though probably not the most reassuring movie to watch when you’re quarantined.” – North Shore Movies, 05/07/2020

“A nifty overview as to why everything is terrible, it’s a brilliantly assembled, blood-boiling examination of the past 100 years in wealth inequality that, viewed during our current disaster, feels like the autopsy of a broken system. The film has a knack for making tricky economic concepts accessible to all, even dummies like me who got a D in algebra.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/30/2020

”Yauch is touchingly missed by his bandmates and his irreverent energy is sorely missed by the film. It’s sweet, well-meaning and lacking any of the oddball invention we’ve come to expect from their endeavors. This is a pleasant chat with a couple of the nicest dads in your neighborhood, but I kept waiting for someone to bust out the Brass Monkey.” – North Shore Movies, 04/30/2020

“That’s right, someone named Tyler Rake actually kills a guy with a rake and nobody involved with the movie seems to find this remotely amusing. You can even feel the pause where a great ‘80s one-liner would belong, and you know Hemsworth would’ve delivered the shit out of it. But action heroes aren’t assigned one-liners anymore. They get tragic backstories.” – North Shore Movies, 04/24/2020

“Envisioning Ned Kelly’s army of outlaws as Iggy and the Stooges is indeed an unexpected angle, and Kurzel’s visual graffiti grows increasingly, interestingly rococo as the atrocities pile up. As one might expect from a film about murderous men wearing dresses, the whole thing simmers in a thick stew of malevolent homoeroticism.” – North Shore Movies, 04/24/2020

“An algorithm will never understand you the way an attentive clerk can, and the most touching parts of the film for me were scenes spent with the staff, so passionate about passing along discoveries and sharing sounds they love. One employee admits he probably would have grown up to become ‘a very unhappy lawyer’ if it hadn’t been for Other Music.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/16/2020

“A sprawling, multigenerational saga spanning several decades across different continents, Tigertail is also only 91 minutes long, so most of the time it feels like a trailer for itself. There’s no shortage of interesting scenarios and situations here, yet none of them are allowed to dramatically develop before we’ve packed up and moved on to another time period.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/10/2020

“Breathtaking in its stripped-down simplicity, the film is a small miracle of inferences and implicit understandings. Hittman’s subtractions become additions in the audience’s imagination. Ultimately it feels like a cousin to the Romanian New Wave masterpiece Four Months, Three Weeks And Two Days by way of Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy And Lucy.” – North Shore Movies, 04/03/2020

“What makes the movie so moving is that we watch the family learning how to live with the diagnosis, and perhaps more importantly, learning how to joke about it. There’s a raw power in this footage I’m not sure the filmmakers really have a handle on, as it hits upon that primal human need to turn grief into art, to salvage something positive out of all this sadness.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/02/2020