This week was one for the ages, with an unusually high number of big studio releases: a long-awaited literary adaptation, a broad-appeal family sports animation, a 70s era Dudes Rock heist thriller, and Gore Verbinski’s kooky return to the director’s chair. PLUS: a campy horror, a Cannes festival darling, David Koepp’s latest yarn, and more, more more.
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Key Highlights
- Studio Releases: This week features several major studio films including adaptations and animations.
- Genre Variety: The lineup includes thrillers, horror, and family-friendly content.
- Reviews Available: Full reviews are linked for each film, providing deeper insights.
- Engagement Encouraged: Readers are invited to share their thoughts on the films.
Wuthering Heights
Despite some moments of wondrous physical beauty — or, perhaps, because of them — Wuthering Heights is flavorless, skin-deep and oddly staid.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of Wuthering Heights.
Crime 101
This is a purposefully languid movie that proves real, genuine tension can be built without crash landing right on your head. In an era of fast cuts and escalating explosions… it is refreshing to watch something this confident in its own particular DNA.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of Crime 101.
Cold Storage
Despite many of its foibles, Cold Storage<em> </em>isn’t entirely a wasted effort. Koepp’s script is plenty humorous and delivers exactly what one expects from its genre trappings, even if also taking a touch too long to get to a bigger sense of tension with its 99-minute runtime.
Read Grant Hermanns’ full review of Cold Storage.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
The film has a fun time satirizing a world that is so broken and seems to be rushing headlong into techno-authoritarianism, but its not precise enough to hit its target effectively. And, in its place is an endless slog of cutesy, saccharine humor.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
GOAT
Dilllihay makes the genuinely progressive implication that if ball is ball, then all belong, and that our courts and fields and rings should not be discriminatory. That’s an especially needed message when queer, trans and non-white athletes are being villainized.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of GOAT.
My Father’s Shadow
A deceptively complex film which marries the tentative hopes and fears of a country on the brink of a new age with the dynamic of a family caught in the web of financial scarcity, My Father’s Shadow captures a rare feeling of heartache, and of love.
Read Gregory Nussen’s full review of My Father’s Shadow.
The Infinite Husk
The Infinite Husk is a flawed hybrid of 2013’s The Host and Interstellar, infused with the kind of metaphorical ambition one might expect from a Jane Schoenbrun story, but poorly executed.
Read Emedo Ashibeze’s full review of The Infinite Husk.
By Design
In a society that’s convinced us our lives are perfectly fine within the box we’ve enclosed ourselves in, By Design itself thinks outside the box and does something simultaneously daring, unique, and thoughtful.
Read Mae Abdulbaki’s full review of By Design.
Honey Bunch
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The Mortuary Assistant
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