Trap: When There's No Film So Bad, You Wouldn't Make It For Your Daughter
Dìdi: Filmmaker’s Delightful Coming-of-Age Story an Homage to Mothers, Family, and Art
Starve Acre: Yet Another Rural British Village with an Evil Secret, What's New?
ReviewJim SlotekBritish movies with evil rural settings, Starve Acre, Daniel Kokotajlo, Novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Church of England anti-demon Deliverance Ministry, Erin Richards, Sean Gilder, Animal cruelty scene
Sing Sing: Caged Free Spirits Put on a Show in a Reality-Based Tale of Jailhouse Musical Theatre
By Chris Knight
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Only the River Flows: Challenges of Pre-Digital Age 1990s Power Crafty Police Procedural
By Chris Knight
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Kneecap: If 'A Hard Days Night' had Drugs, Nudity, Anarchy and Gaelic Profanity
ReviewJim SlotekKneecap, Rich Peppiatt, DJ Próvai, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, Josie Walker, Michael Fassbender, Simone Kirby, Music biopic, Irish
Crossing: Odd Couple Road Movie Celebrates the Joys of Ambiguity
ReviewJim SlotekCrossing, Drama, Georgian, Istanbul, Levan Akin, Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli, Levan Bochorishvili, Ziya Sudancikmaz, LGBTQ+, LGBT issues
The Fabulous Four: Definitely Not Fabulous, But Uplifting and Fun
Deadpool & Wolverine: Marvel Actioner Brings Wolvie Home
Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose: Portrait of a Shame Icon
Time Bandits: Taika Waititi Picks Terry Gilliam’s Pocket But It’s Still His Film
ReviewJim SlotekTime Bandits, Remake, Reboot, Lisa Kudrow, Kal-El Tuck, Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, Apple TV, Streaming series, Sci fi
Exhuma: South Korean Ghost Story Out-Conjures The Conjuring
National Anthem: A Drag Rodeo Romance that Tenderly Bucks Expectations
By Chris Knight
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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
