“Hanks has developed at least a dozen different ways of narrowing his eyes, and he subtly shows us everything the commander would never dare say out loud. Without making a big fuss over it, Greyhound is a movie about life-and-death decisions that must be made in split-seconds. We watch how heavily they weigh on heroes.” – North Shore Movies, 07/10/2020

“This affable Groundhog Day knockoff is a genially mediocre time-killer that feels a lot more at home on your television set than it did on a big screen. I suppose like a lot of streaming titles Palm Springs will play pleasantly in the background while you’re doing laundry, escaping any questions about how something so slight could have set records at Sundance.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/09/2020

“Metaphor alert! Relic is actually about the horrors of old age, with Edna’s encroaching dementia manifesting itself through supernatural means because otherwise this would be another Alzheimer’s movie and those are awfully hard to watch. It’s a good idea squandered in the frustratingly vague screenplay by James and her co-writer Christian White.” – North Shore Movies, 07/09/2020

“Hollering in a Noo Yawk accent even more outsized than his prosthetic pot belly, Gibson’s emphysematic, pistol-packin’ Archie Bunker is by far the best thing about the film, which becomes increasingly more absurd as the apartment building is swarmed by a tactical team of bland baddies looking for paintings stolen by the Nazis during WWII.” – North Shore Movies, 07/02/2020

“I’ve wrestled with whether or not I’m trivializing serious subject matter when I tell people I spent most of this movie on the edge of my seat. Thanks to the extraordinary access attained by France, we’re provided passenger seat views of daring midnight escapes and hair-raising trips through customs, with a percolating electronic score out of a Michael Mann picture.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 06/30/2020

“In synopsis I suppose some of these beats might sound familiar —repetitive even— but that’s because they are eternal. In its swooniest moments the movie conjures a breathless sense of heart-skipping hedonism, a first visit to the secret world of older girls and that feeling of the night opening up and stretching out forever with endless possibility.” – North Shore Movies, 06/25/2020

“Any other summer Irresistible might merely have seemed toothless and out of touch, but viewed through the prism of our particular moment it’s actively insulting. A smugly condescending attempt to skewer liberal condescension, the movie is as clueless as its stumblebum protagonist and a sterling example of everything it attempts to scold.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 06/25/2020

“Scanlen holds it all together. She’s not playing an abstraction or an idea, nor is Milla a mere vehicle for the male character’s redemption. In any sane world this wouldn’t be much of a novelty, but it turns out that centering the female protagonist instead of the guy whose life she’s enriching by dying makes a very old story feel (almost) new.” – North Shore Movies, 06/23/2020

“Former film critic Assayas is once again tinkering with story structure the way smart kids like to take apart their toys to see how they work. I’m not sure if the movie-shattering halftime reveal ultimately adds up to much more than a nifty gimmick, but it sure is a fun way to keep Wasp Network from being yet another procession of re-enacted historical events.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 06/18/2020

“You don’t need to be a horror film scholar to guess that the house is going to hold him accountable for the sins of his past, but what’s unpredictable about the movie is a fully realized, adult dynamic between Bacon and Seyfried, set to a semi-abusive simmer that proves far more unsettling than when reflections in the mirror begin moving of their own accord.” – North Shore Movies, 06/18/2020