A QUIET PLACE * 1 / 2
Starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe and Cade Woodward. Screenplay by Brian Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski. Directed by John Krasinski.
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READY PLAYER ONE
”Subserviently seeks to flatter its target audience with a spectacular array of semi-clever references to cool stuff from their childhoods. Meanwhile an otherwise unremarkable, antisocial, adolescent white boy’s skill at video games and deep knowledge of trivial ephemera will somehow save the world. This is fanboy fellatio and I found it all almost unbearably depressing.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/29/2018
ISLE OF DOGS
”When Wes Anderson’s meticulous constructions work, the deeply felt emotions stirred up by their stories reverberate against his dollhouse designs in fascinating ways. When they don’t click, you can feel like you’re stuck spending two hours in somebody’s Etsy store. Isle of Dogs is one of the ones that works, for the most part.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/28/2018
UNSANE
“Soderbergh shoots the scare sequences like an old master playing with a new toy, nestling up uncomfortably close to his star with the unfiltered image quality peering into her every pore. He’s got his tiny camera looming above her shoulder or directly under Foy’s face, so it often feels like the movie itself is stalking her.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/23/2018
TOMB RAIDER
TOMB RAIDER * *
Starring Alicia Vikander, Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Daniel Wu and Kristin Scott Thomas. Screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alistair Siddons. Directed by Roar Uthaug.
A WRINKLE IN TIME
A WRINKLE IN TIME * 1 / 2
Starring Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine and Oprah Winfrey. Screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell. Directed by Ava DuVernay.
RED SPARROW
RED SPARROW * * *
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons and Charlotte Rampling. Screenplay by Justin Haythe. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
DEATH WISH
“For a movie featuring one of Hollywood’s few outspoken right-wingers running around the ghetto in a hoodie shooting brown people, what’s shocking is just how lame and instantly forgettable it is. You’d think such a morally repugnant gun-nut masturbation fantasy would at least be worth getting worked up about, but Death Wish is so wheezy it’s almost pitiable.” – North Shore Movies, 03/03/2018
ANNIHILATION
ANNIHILATION * * * 1 / 2
Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Oscar Isaac. Wriiten for the screen and directed by Alex Garland.
A FANTASTIC WOMAN
“In fact, Daniela Vega is so very good it’s impossible to watch A Fantastic Woman without wishing she’d been given more to do than just suffer. She wanders through the movie numbed with grief and absorbing abuse, which is compelling on a human level but dramatically monotonous. There aren’t exactly a lot of surprises here.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 02/23/2018
SPLICED PERSONALITY 