”As the narrative screws start to tighten, I couldn’t help imagining what Steven Soderbergh might have made from this material. Still, Linklater has always been one of our most affable auteurs, and Hit Man is nothing if not likable. There’s a real warmth to the picture that makes you want to share it with friends. Too bad most folks will have to watch it at home alone.” – North Shore Movies, 05/24/2024
”Miller’s hotly anticipated prequel is a much stranger, more sorrowful picture than its predecessor, replacing Fury Road’s high-octane excitement with moodier meditations on scarcity and loss at the end of the world. It’s a very good, sometimes shatteringly powerful film that has the misfortune of following one of the greatest movies ever made.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/23/2024
“We’re here for such a short period of time, and so often we’re asked to think that the point of our life is to accumulate a lot of stuff, or have other people think we’re fabulous, right? As if that’s gonna change anything. What I find so moving about Miss O’Connor is that because the reality of mortality hit her so young, she wrote about that mystery better than anyone else.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/22/2024
“It’s the kind of movie that tends to haunt viewers with memories that linger for years after the credits roll. There’s simply no shaking this Lancaster performance. The star was famous for his smarts and athletic prowess, yet his best roles explore the self-delusion behind that swagger. He’s fearless here, a towering failure, and we can’t look away from his collapse.” – Crooked Marquee, 05/17/2024
”One of those post-Apatow comedies in which likable television personalities stand around ad-libbing and pulling faces over a promising premise that hasn’t been fleshed out into a story. Without looking it up, I’m guessing Babes probably premiered to easy-lay raves and some sort of ridiculous ovation at SXSW. I’m honestly shocked Kumail Nanjiani isn’t in it.” – North Shore Movies, 05/17/2024
“I think as a trans person who now looks back at their obsessive youth caring more about Buffy’s high school experience than their own, it’s hard not for me to interrogate the ways in which the screen was a place for me to put my love that was safe. The fiction available to me on the screen was almost like microdosing something that I wasn’t getting in my real life.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/09/2024
”Granted, it’s still an exploitation picture. But it’s an uncommonly thoughtful and haunting one, bumping up against the limitations of the genre in fascinating ways. Too somber and meditative to thrill its target audience while a little too cheap and skanky to be the moody meditation Hornisher is shooting for, it’s curiously affecting all the same.” – North Shore Movies, 05/09/2024
”There’s something intentionally disjointed about the filmmaking. The camera angles are slightly obtuse and ambient sounds are mixed distractingly loud. Hamaguchi deliberately uses such disorienting cinematic devices to evoke the disharmony and inevitable imbalances in man’s relationship to nature. His scenic shots of the forest are hardly soothing.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/08/2024
”Sometimes we just want to watch movie stars being charming. The Fall Guy understands this well enough that you’re inclined to give the rest of the messy movie a pass. Still, a shorter, cheaper version probably would have worked a whole lot better. It’s easy to imagine a 105-minute incarnation directed by John Badham being a mid-summer programmer back in 1988.” – North Shore Movies, 05/02/2024
”Lee’s novel became a sensation on TikTok, probably because it keys into some of the weirdest mental health issues infecting our youth-obsessed culture. Alas, the movie has been carefully engineered to avoid or at least gloss over most of these matters in favor of an excessively pleasant wish fulfillment fantasy buoyed by the chemistry between its two leads.” – North Shore Movies, 05/02/2024
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