MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Comfort Food
The Solitary Gourmet is one part food movie, one part travelogue, all TV series.
Lots of Pain, MInimal Gain
Seems like the One Man Army is a thing now. Add Novocaine to the canon.
Marital Drama
True Love, for Once In My Life could be the definition of current Hong Kong cinema.
Almost Divine
More nuns! This time they’re Dark Nuns, an exorcism thriller that comes really, really close to greatness.
Oh, Mickey
Bong Joon-ho still hates the rich, but he adds demagogues to the mix in Mickey 17.
The Right Kind of Suck
Nosferatu dispenses with the sparkling and the suave as Robert Eggers brings back the monster.
Love Scam: Take 2
Aside from positing 38 is practically dead, Salli is an inoffensive coming of romantic age drama.
Billion Dollar Baby
Well, there’s certainly more movie in Jiaozi’s billion-dollar grossing Ne Zha 2.
Still a Mystery
Despite alleged maverick Bob Dylan being the subject, A Complete Unknown is as average as it gets.
Virtue Intact
Forbidden Fairytale could use a lot more of the ‘forbidden’ to really make a point.
Needs More Diva
Angelina Jolie closes Pablo Larrain’s bad bitch trilogy in Maria, but she’s not the baddest.
Crap Time to be Cap
There is a shit ton of stuff happening in Captain America: Brave New World, none of it Feige could want.
Zero Sum Filmmaking
You think you know what you’ll get in Detective Chinatown 1900, but you’d be wrong.
Worlds Away
Living in Two Worlds means well, but that doesn’t make it particularly exciting.
‘Room’ to Move
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is a meditation on death that’s really about life.