“A fascinating peek behind the curtain, a look at filmmaking as it actually happens, and all the boredom and frustration that entails. The film was made with Coppola’s permission and is being released by his nephew Robert Schwartzman’s company Utopia, so I doubt the portrait is truly warts and all, but there are plenty of blemishes. I could have watched it all day.” – North Shore Movies, 09/22/2025

“First-time screenwriter Ben Shattuck adapted his short story himself, and the rookie mistake with The History Of Sound is that it’s entirely internalized. There’s nothing for Lionel to do. Such a passive protagonist is okay when we’re reading and are privy to the character’s inner thoughts, but onscreen we’re just watching a handsome man look sullen.” – North Shore Movies, 09/19/2025

“Stuff like McCartney praising them as musical geniuses undoes the verisimilitude that made the first film so special. It’s just being silly with celebrity guest stars. What made Spinal Tap achingly hilarious was the gap between the band’s grandiose posturing and their increasingly low-rent circumstances. You can’t pull off that joke when Sir Elton is fawning over you.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 09/12/2025

“The story of an entitled sociopath who puts a woman that loves him through hell while ruining her family’s holiday, except disguised as a twinkly-eyed romantic comedy about an adorable scamp who charms an uptight older lady into falling for his antics. It’s a pity party for a character that braver filmmakers would have had the nerve to tackle head on.” – North Shore Movies, 09/11/2025

“Jonsson is such a marvelous actor that his camaraderie with Hoffman elevates everything around them. These boys bantering and bonding on their journey can’t help but recall another King adaptation, Rob Reiner’s beloved Stand By Me. Except imagine a version of Stand By Me in which the kid from Jojo Rabbit gets his jaw blown off for walking too slow.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 09/09/2025

“The flatness of the onscreen spaces matches the characters’ deadpan lack of affect, conjuring a torpid sort of vacation-mode miasma that becomes beguiling. By the end, you can’t imagine the movie looking any other way. A melancholy undercurrent runs beneath all this poker-faced silliness, almost like Glander has made a Jim Jarmusch movie for little kids.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 09/04/2025

“A deliberate throwback to the kind of glib, trash-talking crime pictures that proliferated in the immediate post-Pulp Fiction era when Caught Stealing takes place. I lived in this same Alphabet City neighborhood back then, and the film feels very much like something I would have snuck into at the Village East after a matinee of Feeling Minnesota.” – North Shore Movies, 08/29/2025

“I’m not sure I’ve seen a project that more overtly typifies the corporate fanboy Alamo Drafthouse sensibility I find so off-putting, a celebration of genre in air quotes where everyone’s trying too hard to show what an awesome time they’re having. I say this all the time, but Alamo theaters are for people who wish going to the movies was more like Dave & Busters.” – North Shore Movies, 08/29/2025

“Ron Howard’s lurid, misanthropic melodrama follows a doomed collection of German expats trying to forge a new utopia in the Galapagos. There’s no need for snakes in this Eden when you’ve got such shitty neighbors. Campy and cruel, the movie is an unexpected hoot, showing off a naughty mean streak in Opie that would horrify Aunt Bee. I like him like this.” – North Shore Movies, 08/22/2025

“Too slapdash to get a handle on, like Coen and Cooke started shooting before they’d figured out what story they were trying to tell. There are some amusing moments, a few intriguing ideas and a knockout movie star performance from Margaret Qualley as an aloof, no-nonsense private eye. But almost nothing in the picture connects.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/21/2025