“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

“Turturro sprints haphazardly through Blier’s loosey-goosey narrative, rushing down an obligatory checklist of Lebowski references early on as if getting them out of the way, before ditching the bowling alley altogether for a progression of atonal episodes (and usually group sex) with celebrity guest stars and famous friends of the filmmaker.” – North Shore Movies, 03/27/2020

”The rococo wonders of Bacurau, with its naked elderly folks wielding shotguns in the shower and a drone camera disguised as a 1950s sci-fi movie flying saucer, are in the service of an underlying optimism that frankly feels like a balm right now. We might all be off the map at the moment, but this movie reminds us that we’ve still got each other.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/25/2020

“O’Sullivan’s screenplay neatly sidesteps the cliches inherent in its narrative hook. But her most astute observation is that everybody’s faking it to some degree or another, and if we all could be more open about our shortcomings then, in Bridget’s words, ‘maybe women wouldn’t feel so f–kin’ lonely all the time.’ This is the kind of movie that makes you feel less lonely.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/25/2020

“Potboilers are my preferred comfort food, and this nifty Maine-set murder mystery hit the spot. It’s a New England spin on the Coen brothers’ Rube Goldberg crime contraptions with a welcome feminist bent, though Krudy and Cole are less enamored of the Fargo filmmakers’ cosmic absurdity and a bit more sympathetic to their characters’ predicaments.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/20/2020