Category: Reviews
Tearepa Kahi Crafts A Riveting But Imperfect Facfiction [TIFF]
Tearepa Kahi Crafts A Riveting But Imperfect Facfiction [TIFF]

Tearepa Kahi’s “Muru” opens with several spiky title cards: “The views and accuracy of the information contained in this production are not endorsed or supported by the New Zealand Police.” “This film is not a recreation of the police raids…

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Intense & Unsettling Gothic That Takes Its Time
Intense & Unsettling Gothic That Takes Its Time

Home Movie Reviews God's Creatures Review: An Intense & Unsettling Gothic That Takes Its Time God's Creatures is an unnerving rural gothic tale with two quietly fierce performances that make the film's slow burn to its climax worth the wait. …

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Yellowstone Season 5 Review: The More Things Change…
Yellowstone Season 5 Review: The More Things Change…

In the four years since its premiere, Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone has become an entity in and of itself, a hit series that spawned not only a successful spinoff in this year's 1883 but a verifiable television universe now with a…

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Cassian Stages the Prison Break of the Century
Cassian Stages the Prison Break of the Century

At the end of last week’s episode, Kino Loy (Andy Serkis) revealed that there are only ever twelve guards on duty, and with Episode 10 of Andor, Cassian (Diego Luna) plans to take full advantage of the Empire’s weaknesses. But…

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The Howl Scream Park Review: A Halloween Dream
The Howl Scream Park Review: A Halloween Dream

The Howl Scream Park is the little brother of another local scare attraction in Tulleys Shocktoberfest but don’t underestimate this park, it has a lot of high-quality mazes and a wonderful atmosphere! Here’s our The Howl Scream Park review. The…

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Loudmouth | Film Threat
Loudmouth | Film Threat

The name Rev. Al Sharpton elicits strong responses. In fact, the opening clips of writer-director Josh Alexander’s documentary Loudmouth contain a 1993 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace in which Wallace rattles off a laundry list of (mostly white) critics of Sharpton, including: “impresario…

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Avatar The Way of Water Review: Recaptures The Visual Magic
Avatar The Way of Water Review: Recaptures The Visual Magic

With “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the cinematic experience reaches new heights as Cameron transports audiences back to the magnificent world of Pandora in a spectacular and stirring action-packed adventure. Set more than a decade after the events of the…

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Elsie Fisher Leads Funny & Gross Horror
Elsie Fisher Leads Funny & Gross Horror

Home Movie Reviews My Best Friend's Exorcism Review: Elsie Fisher Leads Funny & Gross Horror My Best Friend's Exorcism, with humor & horror, makes for a devilish ride less than the sum of its parts, but still a frighteningly good…

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In Jamie Roberts’ Tightly Focused Doc, America’s Afghan War Ends As A Bloody Catastrophe
In Jamie Roberts’ Tightly Focused Doc, America’s Afghan War Ends As A Bloody Catastrophe

Jamie Roberts’ terse, painfully precise documentary “Escape from Kabul” zooms right in on one episode—the massive last-minute airlift of Afghans and remaining American personnel from Kabul in August 2021—and never looks away, even when you might wish that it did.…

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MCU Phase 4’s Somber Triumph
MCU Phase 4’s Somber Triumph

Even though he was only in four Marvel films, Chadwick Boseman’s King T’Challa felt integral to the MCU following his introduction in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. When Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) threw him off a waterfall during a…

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Humanity at the Center of the Western Frontier
Humanity at the Center of the Western Frontier

The American West is a dangerous place for a woman, but so is England and the façade of safety that it offers women—even for wealthy, privileged women like Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt). The English doesn’t shy away from the horrors…

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The Fabelmans | Film Threat
The Fabelmans | Film Threat

NOW IN THEATERS! The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg‘s self-portrait of a young man finding himself in a field of film magicians, turns out to be unexpectedly hip and heavy. Written by Speilberg and Tony Kushner, the film begins in 1952, as little…

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