”Not a movie so much as a scaffolding site for the perpetuation of more Marvel product. There’s no longer any difference between the coming attractions and the feature. These days, the world’s largest entertainment franchise is capable only of churning out advertisements for itself. At what point does this slop finally become insulting to its target audience?” – North Shore Movies, 02/15/2023
“On paper this all sounds perfect, yet almost nothing in the picture works. I found myself leaning forward in my seat, wondering why I wasn’t enjoying it more. The past fifteen years of trashy action films have clearly taken their toll on Neeson. One should never come away from a femme fatale seduction scene thinking the detective needs a nap.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/14/2023
“Fueled by a filmmaker’s unhealthy obsession with his muse, Hitchcock’s messiest and most divisive movie is a lush spectacle of deliberate artifice engorged with icky sexual politics and retrograde fantasies. Marnie is a sinister, unpleasant picture, yet you can’t stop thinking about it. When the movie’s over you want to take a shower, and then talk about it some more.” – Crooked Marquee, 02/10/2023
“Soderbergh is back in the director’s chair, using Mike as a prism for another crisis or two. Very much a post-pandemic and post-#MeToo movie, on the surface it’s an old-fashioned musical. But look closer and you’ll see a more serious film about artists in transition, trying to figure out paths forward in the new normals when the old ways aren’t working anymore.” – North Shore Movies, 02/10/2023
“She doesn’t over-accentuate anything for the camera, and you’ll never catch her actors acting. Events both life-changing and banal unfold within the same, steady rhythms of ordinary, everyday existence. Such understatement can make Hansen-Løve’s films feel a little anticlimactic while you’re watching them, but they linger in the memory longer than most.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/09/2023
“Valentine’s Day is the most unnecessarily stressful holiday that isn’t New Year’s Eve. Couples risk being crushed under colossal expectations to come up with the perfect date, while the rest of us need to find someplace where we won’t feel self-conscious about being alone. As is my catch-all solution for most of life’s problems, I find going to the movies helps.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/08/2023
“The dual Swintons remain isolated within separate frames, while Hogg’s deliberately uncanny cutting underscores the psychological gulf between them. The Eternal Daughter isn’t a horror movie, but it’s haunted. The gothic trappings aren’t supernatural so much as they’re externalizations of the characters’ regrets. This is a hotel where you bring your own ghosts.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/06/2023
“Like an even more explicitly religious revision of Signs with a former wrestler instead of alien invaders. Behind the camera, Shyamalan is precise, inventive and keeps a lot of the action offscreen to make your mind do the dirty work. He also still can’t write, which is a problem when you’re trying to parse as many big ideas as this picture keeps throwing around.” – North Shore Movies, 02/03/2023
“There’s no way to look at the groundbreaking career achievements of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno or Sally Field and feel good about watching this slapdash sponsored content, a shrine to an increasingly weird Florida Man producing his own unseemly vanity project. Is this the best Hollywood can offer these women who have given the movies so much?” – North Shore Movies, 02/02/2023
“Chopra will be back in the neighborhood this Friday night for a mini-retrospective in celebration of her recently released memoir Lady Director, a blisteringly candid and compulsively readable tell-all from a trailblazer who isn’t afraid to name names. The book arrives during an overdue reconsideration of a career stifled by chauvinism and Hollywood politics.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/01/2023
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