“Ultimately it’s about how art can change people’s lives for better and worse, altering our perspectives of ourselves and the world around us. But it’s also about how such work isn’t created in a vacuum. The film’s note-perfect final shot illuminates the symbiotic relationship between the artist and the admirers, the seers and the seen, the painters and the thieves.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/21/2020

“I developed a weird, contrarian’s affection for the ugliness of this movie. Hardy could so easily be a heartthrob but instead he’s a Mickey Rourke waiting to happen, and in Capone he’s finally found a role that allows him to bleat incoherently like an addled Popeye the Sailor Man while noisily shitting his pants onscreen not once, but twice.” – North Shore Movies, 05/15/2020

“But life doesn’t really work that way, and most friendships don’t end so much as they just fade away. As you get older people disappear from your life so gradually sometimes you don’t even notice until they’re gone, and writer-director Dan Sallitt’s Fourteen is a movie about a close friendship’s slow dissolve over years that seem to pass in a blink.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/14/2020

“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