“As teens we often construct our identities around shared pop culture interests, communicating through quotes and music mixes to let artists express that which we’re unable to say. For all its missteps, Blinded By The Light understands the sweet relief of hearing something and feeling less alone in the world, at least for the length of a record.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 08/13/2019

“Pitilessly violent even by the standards of Australian Westerns, which tend to be a bit rougher than the rest. Kent eschews expansive widescreen vistas, opting instead for a boxy, claustrophobic aspect ratio that keeps Clare’s ravaged visage front and center. The characters feel walled-in by these massive trees, the overgrown greens giving a whiff of rot.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 08/07/2019

“A mismatched buddy picture aspiring to the spirit of 1980s cable staples like Tango & Cash in which the leads spend as much time busting each other’s balls as breaking bad-guys’ heads. A little too PG-13 and way too overstuffed for its own good, but it’s more fun than the last two lackluster Furious films. You can do a lot worse at the movies in August.” – North Shore Movies, 08/03/2019

“Tarantino’s warmest film since Jackie Brown, and his funniest since Pulp Fiction. An elegiac buddy comedy taking place at the tail end of Hollywood’s Golden Age, it’s a dazzlingly extravagant childhood reminiscence akin to Roma or Fellini’s Amarcord, but suffused with a deep, middle-aged sadness as these characters stare down their impending obsolescence.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/25/2019

“I could be heard loudly complaining in the lobby afterwards that you’ve got two beige cats fighting in front of an oatmeal rock with some brown grass on the ground. Every aesthetic choice here has been made to tone down the material, making it less vivid, less expressive, less animated. Eventually they’re gonna run out of stuff to remake, right?” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/18/2019

“This trim tale of a daughter and her dad trapped inside their flooding Florida home during a Category 5 hurricane with a bunch of toothy, uninvited guests is exactly the sort of lean, no-frills thriller that feels like sweet relief during a bloated blockbuster summer. Crawl is the best movie of its kind since Blake Lively fought that shark.” – North Shore Movies, 07/13/2019

“Broomfield isn’t nearly so adept at hagiography, and Words Of Love really could’ve used a director less enamored of Leonard Cohen’s legend. But then that would deprive us of the pointless, often unintentionally hilarious asides during which the filmmaker presents flattering photos of his studly, twenty-year-old self in his subject’s bedroom.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/10/2019

“Whenever Far From Home chills out for long enough to be an easygoing teen comedy, you’re tantalizingly teased with how much fun these Marvel movies can be when they cool it on the overbearing mythology and apocalyptic showdowns. There’s an incredibly charming high school romance here, but it’s buried under Iron Man 4.” – North Shore Movies, 07/03/2019

“It’s a millennial, movie-mad hall of mirrors that’s designed to drive you a little bit crazy. The sidewinding structure mimics similar L.A. sunshine noirs in the hazy, addled-detective tradition of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, except that instead of a private dick Sam’s just kind of a regular one.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/03/2019

“Transplanting a cringe-inducing relationship comedy into Wicker Man territory, Aster conjures some of the summer’s sickest laughs. Amid all the entrails and ritual sacrifice, Midsommar is also a droll comedy of manners, an irresistible revenge fantasy and a warning to bad boyfriends everywhere. It’s the best breakup movie I’ve seen in ages.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/01/2019