Film Reviews
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BLINK TWICE: If You’re Having A Great Time
BLINK TWICE is a film steeped in both metaphor and psychological chills. Imagine a melding of a Jordan Peele thriller with a Rian Johnson mystery. You got it? Yeah, it got me too.
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REVISITED: Sherin’s Review of The Batman
I approached the idea of a new cinematic Batman with the same caution I’d use for a birthday cake that looks like a bomb. Could be a celebration, could get messy.
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The Instigators
So Apple has another star-led expensive film that hasn’t been promoted well to the general public. One good thing, though, is that at least the film had a little time in the movie theater for…
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The Emotional Gymnastics of It Ends With Us
It Ends With Us, based on Colleen Hoover’s best-selling 2016 novel, has finally made its way to theaters, directed by Justin Baldoni and starring Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, and Brandon Sklenar. This film, rooted deeply…
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DIDI: Navigating Teenage Life in the New Millenia with Y2K Nostalgia
Didi aka Chris aka Wang Wang is trying to get through his last summer before high school starts. He hangs out with his friends. They play pranks on each other, go to parties, and talk…
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‘SING SING’: Louder
“That’s what I want you to take away with you. That radical love. Let this film be yours. And please, share it.” –Colman Domingo My journey with the arts is from birth. We might have…
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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: Two Big Bloody Chest Muscles Pumping Pure Diesel
No matter how profane, gory, or downright nasty the Deadpool franchise gets, it has a heart.
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Deadpool and Wolverine – Julian’s Review
All right, Trill Believers, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has had some troubles lately with the fans’ feelings overall through some of the shows, some actions by an actor, and just not packing them in the…
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Twisters
An ex-storm chaser is pulled back into that chaotic world but finds a lot more than she bargained for, especially as Oklahoma suffers a disastrous outbreak of tornadoes.
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Longlegs
Longlegs – if you don’t know what this is, don’t feel bad; the marketing is very obtuse in trying to reach the public consciousness. I heard fellow critics being very excited about seeing this film…
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Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me To The Moon is a weird film to me. It’s a film that takes what is a clear conspiracy theory and then wraps it up in a cute period romantic comedy. I find…
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MaXXXine
(This review will have spoilers for Ti West’s X.) Ti West just gave A24 its first trilogy and franchise with MaXXXine. The third film in the series is a direct sequel to the first film,…
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The Three ‘Kinds of Kindness’
Kinds of Kindness is a triptych exploring the human obsession with privilege, love, and religious fanaticism
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Space Cadet
Prime Video’s Space Cadet premieres for post-fireworks fun on July 4th, blending workplace rom-com with space travel dreams.
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Despicable Me 4
I never thought Despicable Me would be such a major animated franchise rivaling Disney and Dreamworks in the cinematic landscape. The weird-shaped man voiced by Steve Carell, who is a villain who becomes a father…
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Kinds of Kindness
So eight months after his hit and Academy Award-winning film Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos is back in the theater with what will be the wildest film of summer 2024 – Kinds of Kindness. Now, unlike…
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A Quiet Place: Day One
So A Quiet Place, the surprise survival horror film franchise that exploded onto the world in 2018, starring Emily Blunt and directed and co-written by John Krasinski, took audiences on a ride. The anticipated sequel…
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Sherin Takes on Tribeca 2024
For the second year, Sherin covered the Tribeca Film Festival for AWFJ. What did she think? So many thoughts.
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The Bikeriders
So The Bikeriders is a film that I didn’t expect to like before I saw it. The reason was the talk months ago about it, which seemed to be some road trip film with some…
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Ultraman: Rising
Ultraman – one of the most known Tokusatsu and Superhero characters from Japan known all over the globe. Created by Eiji Tsuburaya after co-creating Godzilla, Ultra Q, and later, the titular Ultraman is a hero…