“The deathless dinosaur franchise is now on its seventh installment, a breezily uninspired piece of hackwork that passes past our eyes with a shrug. Director Gareth Edwards brings a rote semi-professionalism to the proceedings. ‘How many more times are we gonna do this?’ are the first words you hear in Jurassic World Rebirth. It’s a valid question.” – North Shore Movies, 07/03/2025
“An uncommonly astute and sometimes shockingly funny movie about the numbing aftereffects of trauma, that sticky sense of stasis while the rest of the world moves on without you. Situated in a perpetual present tense, Eva Victor’s hugely accomplished debut isn’t a film about The Bad Thing, but about how life goes on before, after and all around it.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/02/2025
“Poking merciless fun at the self-important music docs of the era, it’s a boomer hagiography in reverse. Reiner plays a documentarian tagging along for what looks like it will be the band’s final tour, downsizing from arenas to air force bases and amusement parks where they’re second billed to puppet shows. It’s the end of an error, the twilight of the dolts.” – Crooked Marquee, 07/02/2025
“This is not a movie designed to surprise you. The pleasures lie in the confidence with which it hits the familiar beats, moving gracefully between set-pieces and montages while doodling character flourishes in the margins of tried and true formulas. There’s something comforting about how completely in command Kosinski and company are of their cliches.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/26/2025
“Veering off into incoherent espionage techno-thriller territory, it feels like they decided to just shoot the notes from a brainstorming session instead of going to the trouble of turning them into a screenplay. Promising ideas are picked up and discarded minutes later, as if trying to cram in a bunch of crappy sequels at once. Like most upgrades, it’s full of bugs.” – North Shore Movies, 06/25/2025
“Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece is one of the best arguments for the superiority of the 70mm format — a heady sound and light spectacular stretching from the dawn of man to Jupiter and beyond the infinite. The experience of seeing it on a massive screen with a rapt audience having their minds collectively melted is a defining moment in one’s moviegoing life.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/24/2025
“The second sequel to Danny Boyle’s 2003 zombie shocker is the first chapter of a new trilogy, so it spends a galling amount of screen time setting up later installments. This is frustrating because there’s some really good stuff in here – a lot of it quite beautiful and strange – but none of it has been arranged into the rising and descending action of a story. It’s just stuff.” – North Shore Movies, 06/20/2025
“A time capsule of two strutting young actors who were about to take over Hollywood, right before it didn’t quite happen. The film is a marvel of peacocking machismo, with two big, preening performances trying to top each other in every scene. When I was growing up The Pope Of Greenwich Village was everybody’s older brother’s favorite movie.” – Crooked Marquee, 06/20/2025
“How can you use arts and culture to help people understand and get connected to certain issues? We always talk about film as a catalyst for conversation and we have built into the festival opportunities to have deeper discussions around these screenings. We’re bringing in people from organizations doing work in these spaces to do Q&As with the community.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/16/2025
“This is so idiotic one hardly knows where to begin. The Life Of Chuck is a two-hour barrage of soft-focus smiles, vaguely mystical, New Age noodling, and gaseous platitudes about carpe-ing the diem, etc. The characters speak to each other in such meaningless aphorisms, Flanagan’s dialogue sounds like a gangbang in the greeting card aisle.” – North Shore Movies, 06/14/2025
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