”It’s a bruiser of a picture, the kind that can be daunting for a lot of audiences. I mean, try being at a barbecue where people are asking you for movie recommendations, then suggest a two-and-a-half-hour, black-and-white drama about the European refugee crisis and see how quickly everyone goes back to talking about the potato salad.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/25/2024
“Watch any scene of a Sofia Coppola picture and you can instantly tell who directed it. These are lush, melancholic movies with carefully embroidered visual schemes floating on pillows of sound. Fuzzy guitars and ethereal synth tones follow our heartsick, usually adolescent protagonists on the cusp of adulthood and self-discovery.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/23/2024
”One can lament the circumstances that have led to the existence of Twisters while also acknowledging that the film itself is — for what it is — actually pretty good. Certainly an improvement on the original and a fun Friday night at the movies, it’s enough to leave you wishing these talented people had been hired to make something more than a sequel to Twister.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/18/2024
“Like a lot of memoirs, Desperately Seeking Something is a largely conciliatory affair, which might be a disappointment to those looking for dish about the outsized personalities she’s worked with over the years. Seidelman’s even generous to a screenwriter she says gave her a case of crabs, going on to praise his script for Making Mr. Right in the same paragraph.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/17/2024
”There’s a wrenching resignation in Kristofferson’s eyes when his demo tapes are ignored by industry players who only called for his drug connections. The movie chronicles an ego death by a thousand pinpricks, the most amusingly brutal being when a groupie played by Joy Bang tells Kristofferson and Stanton that their big hit was her favorite song in junior high.” – Crooked Marquee, 07/12/2024
”One of the most formally confident movies I’ve seen this year. I could go on all day about Perkins’ smart stylistic flourishes and his command of cinematic grammar. What I can’t tell you is what the film is supposed to be about, or why we should be invested beyond the bravura technique. Longlegs is an extremely unsettling experience. It’s also rather an empty one.” – North Shore Movies, 07/12/2024
””It’s interesting to think about a time when Hollywood made movies for adults,’ explains Tamm. ‘What does it say about the end of the 20th century that 25 years on, we’re not making movies like this anymore? Is that necessarily a good thing? I don’t know. There are some deeper, thornier questions in these films that mainstream movies aren’t asking anymore.’” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/10/2024
”Better than it probably should be but still not very good. There’s a comfort food quality to this stroll down memory lane. It feels like one of those sitcom reunion movies that networks used to produce back in the ‘80s, coasting on familiar faces and a catchy theme song. It’ll play best on Netflix, where most people will be watching it while doing something else.” – North Shore Movies, 07/02/2024
”Rushed and overwritten, with West constantly putting the cart before the horse to shoehorn as many homages and semiotic asides as he can cram into a given scene. But such self-reflexive wankery only goes so far unless you’ve got something to say, and MaXXXine is one of those movies that confuses talking about big ideas with actually having them.” – North Shore Movies, 07/01/2024
“Unfulfilled longing runs the circle ‘round in Jacques Demy’s enchanting, heartsick 1961 debut, a film in which — as the song goes — everybody needs somebody to love, even when they don’t love you back. To Demy, a poet of heartache, unrequited love remains an essential and inevitable element of the human condition; the most wonderful, horrible part of being alive.” – Crooked Marquee, 06/28/2024
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