Category: Reviews

Director Darren Aronofsky’s recent films have had a rocky reception since his 2010 hit Black Swan. After back to back movies with religious themes Noah in 2014 and Mother! in 2017, The Whale feels like his attempt to gain favor with the critics and most especially to get his name back into the awards circuit.…
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The Son is director and writer Florian Zeller’s follow up to The Father (2020) which starred Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. The Father was a poignant story about family dynamics as Hopkins’ character suffers from dementia and his daughter grapples with how to take care of him. The Son attempts to do the same deep…
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After the very solid film, Marriage Story in 2019, writer and director Noah Baumbach decided to go off kilter with White Noise. The film opens with a montage of car crashes from movies that folks obsessed with film will enjoy trying to identify. Murray (Don Cheadle) is teaching a university class on film and performs…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies is many things but boring is not one of them. Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and her new girlfriend Bee (Maria Bakalova) arrive late to a hurricane party at their friend’s mansion. It’s David’s (Pete Davidson) parents’ house and the gaggle of friends consists of his girlfriend Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), party girl Alice…
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Jennifer Lawrence returns to her roots in the form of an indie film that harkens back to her early days in Winter’s Bone (2010). In Causeway, she plays Lynsey, a soldier who is rehabbing from a traumatic head injury from her time in Afghanistan. She is wheelchair bound at the beginning and living with a…
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Decision to Leave is the latest film from South Korean director Park Chan-wook who is one of the most interesting and unique directors working right now. If you haven’t seen anything by him, please stop reading this and watch The Handmaiden (2016) immediately. Decision to Leave is a detective story but Chan-wook weaves funny moments,…
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The Fabelmans is a love letter from Steven Spielberg to film, directing, his parents, his childhood, and pieces of his life that have shaped him. He has taken the hint from other directors who have made semi-autobiographical movies, like Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018) and decided to make one of his own. The Fabelman family unit…
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When news broke that there would be a sequel to Knives Out (2019), I was conflicted. The original movie was incredibly enjoyable featuring Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, the hilarious Southern detective whose Holmes-like ability to crack cases was legendary. I was excited to see Blanc take on a new case, while also feeling hesitant…
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See How They Run is one of the most fun movies of the year, especially if you like murder mysteries. In 1950’s London, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is celebrating its 100th show in the West End. For those who might not know, that play has run continuously from 1952 through March, 2020 when COVID hit.…
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Writer and director Taika Waititi comes back to the Marvel universe to follow up Thor: Ragnarok with Thor: Love and Thunder. Waititi is admittedly one of the more fascinating directors in the last few years. He’s famously off the wall, often acts in the movies he makes, and provides an interesting brand of comedy to…
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