Twisters: Storm und Drag
Widow Clicquot: Fact-Based Drama About Champagne's Chief Woman (Ahem) Sparkles
Cora Bora: Megan Stalter Would’ve Been Funnier with a Better Script
The Dead Don't Hurt: Black Hats and Grey Morals in Viggo Mortensen's Western Revenge Tale
Fly Me to the Moon: A Rom-Com with an Almost-Faked Moonshot and a Moral About Gullibility
Touch: Memories of a Lost Love Play Out At Their Own Sweet, Icelandic Pace
ReviewJim SlotekIcelandic films, Films taken from Icelandic novels, Touch, Director Baltasar Kormákur, Novelist Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, Egill Ólafsson, Palmi Kormákur, Kôki, Masahiro Motoki, Love stories set in multiple countries
Longlegs: The-Devil-Made-Them-Do-It FBI Procedural Uses Nic Cage to Quick, Wicked Effect
ReviewJim SlotekPolice procedural-themed horror, Longlegs, Nicolas Cage, Satanic serial killer, Director Oswald Perkins, Maika Monroe, Demon possession, Psychic crime solving, Blair Underwood, Glam rockers T. Rex
MaXXXine: Horrormeister Ti West and Muse Mia Goth Hit a Hollywood High With Trilogy's End
ReviewJim SlotekIndie horror films, Director Ti West, MaXXXine, Horror trilogy, Mia Goth, Serial killer The Night Stalker, Seamy side of Hollywood, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon
KILL: The Name Says It All, As Bollywood Goes Full Die-Hard-On-a-Train
Valley of Exile: When Coping with War is 'Women's Work'
Last Summer: Charged French Familial Drama Raises Fraught Questions, Dodges Answers
Despicable Me 4: Fun Family Franchise Continues (but with Extra Subversion)
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ReviewJim SlotekDespicable Me 4, Franchise, Animation, Kid's Movies, Chris Renaud, Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Joey King, Will Ferrell, Minions, Gru
A Man of Reason: Manslaughter A'Plenty, Reason Not So Much
Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1: Costner’s Western Slow but Satisfying
ReviewJim SlotekHorizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, western, Historical drama, Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Will Patton, Owen Crow Shoe, Series, American history
Freydís and Gudrid: An Original Viking Opera Hits High Notes in Drama and Romance
ReviewJim Slotek"Viking opera", Freydís and Gudrid, Eric the Red, Bryan Glenn Davis, Micaëla Oeste, Bray Wilkins, Raymon Geis, Kirsten Chambers, Films in black-and-white, Director, composer and screenwriter Jeffrey Leiser
A Quiet Place: Day One: A Quiet Audience is Still the Best Litmus Test for This Horror Franchise
Green Border: Agnieszka Holland’s Refugee Tale Targets Poland's Cruel 'Exclusion Zone'
ReviewJim SlotekMovies about refugee crisis in Europe, Green Border, Agnieszka Holland, Belarusian-orchestrated migrant crisis, Polish "exclusion zone", Dalia Naous, Al Rashi Mohamad, Jalal Altawil, Behi Djanati Atai, Maja Ostaszewska, Jury prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival
Daddio: Smart Two-Hander Showcases Great Performances and Universal Truths
Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos Offers Three Kinds, All Weirdly Undercooked
ReviewJim SlotekYorgos Lanthimos, Provocative critical hits, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, Anthology features, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Writer Efthimis Filippou, Mamoudou Athie, Hong Chau
Brats: Did We Ruin The Brat Pack's Lives by Liking Them Too Much? Hmmm....
ReviewJim SlotekThe Brat Pack, Documentary Brats, Director Andrew McCarthy, Journalist David Blum, St. Elmo’s Fire, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Emilio Estevez, Jon Cryer, Molly Ringwald, The effect of youthful fame
