"Writer/director Sophy Romvari's feature debut is based on her own experience and she's created a uniquely effective device to construct her film...a wistful reflection on a painful family event." #BlueHeronMovie #SophyRomvari www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/blue...

" #ColeWebley makes his feature debut and all the right moves with things both said and unsaid in #RobertMachoian 's screenplay...in the most heartbreaking terms." #OmahaMovie #JohnMagaro www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/omaha/

"Jonsson and Blyth make for a dynamic pairing, a lamb and a lion. Jonsson wears a perpetual frown, his forehead creased with worry, while Blyth's very expression is a challenge, his posture domineering." #Wasteman #DavidJonsson #TomBlyth www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/wast...

On Reeling #891 Laura and Robin review #TheDevilWearsPrada2, #Hokum, #DeepWater, #Omaha, #BlueHeron, #TheTiesThatBindUs on DVD, #MotherMary and #OverYourDeadBody. vimeo.com/1187911923

"Mc Carthy and his cinematographer Colm Hogan use the hotel’s spaces for maximum effect...[and] gives his film such a satisfying wrap, he leaves you wondering if Bauman was right in the first place." #Hokum #DamienMcCarthy #AdamScott www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/hokum/

"the original film’s main cast return twenty-two years later with a sequel that largely works once one gets past a fairly defanged Miranda Priestly...Of course, in many ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same." #TheDevilWearsPrada2 www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

if Harlin's intent was to evoke gales of laughter over various shark deaths, mission accomplished. All that and Sir Ben Kingsley sings karaoke! #DeepWater #RennyHarlin #BenKingsley #AaronEckhart www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/deep...

Out on digital and DVD today - "The 2026 César winner for Best Film...is a moving, deeply human example of the old adage 'it takes a village to raise a child.'" #TheTiesThatBindUs #ValeriaBruniTedeschi www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"It would appear that writer/director David Lowery has watched Peter Strickland's "In Fabric," a fellow A24 release, one time too many." #MotherMary #AnneHathaway #MichaelaCoel #DavidLowery www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/moth...

"director #JormaTaccone evidently thinks that seeing someone's head get blown in half is a punchline and it could be if violent escalation wasn't all this movie has going for it." #OverYourDeadBody #JasonSegel #SamaraWeaving #TimothyOlyphant #JulietteLewis www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/over...

#RobertAramayo won Best Actor for #ISwear at the BAFTAs..."Davidson's story is an important one, a call for tolerance and understanding of a syndrome that may not be easy to be around, unleashing uninformed abuse, but one which also has no known cure." www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/i-sw...

On Reeling #890 Laura and Robin review #ISwear, #TheChristophers, #Normal, #TheStranger, #Wasteman, #Exit8, #FacesofDeath and #Hamlet vimeo.com/1183563844

#Nobody and "John Wick" screenwriter Derek Kolstad serves up a modern Western that plays like the last act of the John Wick "Ballerina" spinoff crossed with "Fargo," but while its action tropes are familiar, #BenWheatley stages them with flair #BobOdenkirk www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/norm...

"Soderbergh delivers his best film since "Traffic." Casting Coel and McKellen was inspired, two actors of different generations and backgrounds who are simply dazzling paired together." #TheChristophers #StevenSoderbergh #IanMcKellen #MichaelaCoel www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

Composer Fatima Al Qadiri combines Middle Eastern instruments and synthesizer to eerie, haunting effect, a call to something other than prayer. With his adaptation, Ozon has created the definitive cinematic version of the existentialist classic. #TheStranger www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"an emotional knockout....Sopé Dìrísù rises to the immense challenge of portraying this man determined to right his own father's wrongs" #MyFather'sShadow #SopéDìrísù www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/my-f...

"Schilinski's generational family trauma reverberates through one German farmhouse, cinematographer Fabian Gamper's camera the ghostly presence that glides around it as editor Evelyn Rack seamlessly weaves back and forth among different eras" #SoundOfFalling www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/soun...

Genki Kawamura's addition of a psychological basis for the lost man's plunge into an endless loop of an underground subway corridor isn't integrated into his adaptation of the video game well enough to make its rules representative of his conundrum #Exit8 www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/exit...

flawed, especially in its muted first half, but builds into a fiery finish ignited by the contemporary Kathak dance which indicts Claudius at his wedding reception. #HamletFilm #Hamlet #RizAhmed #MorfyddClark #ArtMalik #SheebaChaddha #TimothySpall #AneilKaria www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/haml...

"could and should have been so much better. Dacre Montgomery's Arthur, the killer in the white stocking mask, is chilling...Barbie Ferreira keeps us on her side even as the script betrays her" #FacesOfDeath #BarbieFerreira #DacreMontgomery www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/face...

"shows us a playful #SatyajitRay working on a global stage while still exposing the class injustices of his home country. Janus's 4K restoration release of this 1970 film deserves celebration." #DaysAndNightsInTheForest www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/days...

On Reeling #889 Laura and Robin review #TheDrama, #FantasyLife, #MyFather'sShadow, #SoundofFalling, #DaysandNightsintheForest 4K restoration rerelease, #MarcbySofia, #MiroirsNo.3 and #TheAIDocOrHowIBecameanApocaloptimist. vimeo.com/1179412859

"an enjoyable, low key work about two people with similar hang-ups drifting into each others' lives then out of them again, but it's given Amanda Peet a role to embrace and hers is a welcome return." #FantasyLifeFilm #AmandaPeet #JuddHirsch #AndreaMartin www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/fant...

Borgli has specialized in a type of dark comedy where people's worst impulses spiral out of control. But while that is also true of his latest, what he's pinned on Emma is a really questionable choice to mine for comedy. #TheDrama #Zendaya #RobertPattinson www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"...this one is coming from shared experience and has the aesthetic of a scrapbook, memories and cultural signifiers laid out like fabric swatches on a designer's work table." #MarcJacobs #MarcbySofia #SofiaCoppola www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/marc...

"won't tell anyone who's read anything at all about the subject anything new, instead appearing to be a documentary essay to ease the filmmaker's own anxieties...and it sure didn't make me an apocaloptimist." #TheAIDoc #DanielRoher #Apocaloptimist www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"a most peculiar ghost story, a case of post-trauma shifting identities told with humor, heart and a dash of mystery...may have a light touch, but its psychology digs deep." #MiroirsNo.3 #ChristianPetzold #PaulaBeer www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/miro...

"Triplets of Belleville's" #SylvainChomet employs his distinct animation style of hand drawn, exaggerated characterizations cast in autumnal nostalgia to bring decades of one of France's most prolific literary figures to life. #AMagnificentLife #MarcelPagnol www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/a-ma...

"Mackay displays a similar sensibility to "I Saw the TV Glow's" Jane Schoenbrun with themes of finding one's identity, a nostalgia for 90's television and love of shocking pink." #TheSerpentsSkin #BUFF26 #AliceMaioMackay www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"Michael Almereyda's 1994 take on "Dracula's Daughter" has received a stunning 4K director's cut restoration, the better to admire the visages of Romanian actress #ElinaLöwensohn and 'whatever-happened-to' #GalaxyCraze, this film's love interest Lucy..." #Nadja www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/nadj...

"...appears to be a labor of love, but Jonathan Keasey & Brant Boivin's ripped-from-the-headlines screenplay bogs down its pacing with too many details which don't matter much in the overall scheme of things." #TowMovie #RoseByrne #DemiLovato #OctaviaSpencer www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/tow/

35th anniversary show! On Reeling #888 Laura and Robin review #ProjectHailMaryMovie, #AMagnificentLife, #Tow, #Nadja 4K restoration rerelease, #BUFF26, #TheSerpent'sSkin, #ThePout-PoutFishMovie, #undertone and #Slanted. #moviereviews vimeo.com/1174975193

""The Lego Movie" directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller seem unsure if they're making a cutesy derivative space adventure or a serious scientific exploration, tonal schizophrenia exacerbated by an excessive run time." #ProjectHailMaryMovie #RyanGosling www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/proj...

"Ricard Cussó and Rio Harrington keep the brightly animated action swimming in directions that should delight the kids while writers...adapt Deborah Diesen's children's book with some clever and subversive humor for adults." #ThePout-PoutFishMovie www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"documentary begins with zaniness, incorporating everything from game shows to toilet POV shots, gradually leaning into harsh reality...André lived life well, serving up his death as a helpful and humorous warning to the rest of the human race." #AndréIsAnIdiot www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/andr...

crosses the generational conflicts facing immigrant families found in such films as Neon's 2023 horror outing "It Lives Inside" with The Twilight Zone's 'Number 12 Looks Just Like You' and a dash of "Mean Girls" to explore racial inequality in America. #Slanted www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/slan...

"Feature debuting writer/director Ian Tuason exhibits artful visual and aural technique in a film that builds suspense without offering much in the way of payoff." #undertone #horrormovie #IanTuason www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/unde...

"Cinematographer Justin Derry achieves a 70's look shooting on 16mm and the film's trailer goes heavy on the "Texas Chainsaw" influence, but Blackhurst offers gore instead of scares in a film that is merely unpleasant. Even the dolls aren't creepy" #Dolly www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/dolly/

On Reeling #887 Laura and Robin review #Sirât, #Hoppers, #AndréIsanIdiot, #LateShift, #Dolly, #Heel (formerly "Good Boy"), #Hamnet 4K UHD Blu-ray collector's edition and #Dreams. #moviereviews vimeo.com/1170497634

"Using long takes, Volpe paces her film like a tense thriller, the extraordinary Leonie Benesch never stops multi-tasking at breakneck speed yet always has time for a kind word, gentle touch or sympathetic smile." #LateShift #LeonieBenesch #PetraVolpe www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/late...

"achieves squirmy black humor with a film that appears to condone the unthinkable even as it condemns it, a modern take on "A Clockwork Orange."" #HeelMovie #StephenGraham #AndreaRiseborough #AntonBoon #JanKomasa www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/heel/

Out on a 4K UHD blu ray collector's edition today... #Hamnet www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/hamn...

"...may be overly complicated for its target audience. It's like "Dr. Dolittle" crossed with "Face/Off" squared." #Hoppers #Disney #Pixar www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/hopp...

"Spain's submission for the International Oscar is very much an original, a film about connection, inconceivable loss and a dark future, all set to composer Kangding Ray's infectious dance beats." #Sirât #OliverLaxe #SergiLópez www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/sirat/

"While the sex between Jennifer and Fernando is steamy, the two practically inhaling each other, Jessica Chastain has never been icier, a woman of privilege yet little substance..." #Dreams #JessicaChastain #MichelFranco www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/drea...

On Reeling #886 Laura and Robin review #Kokuho, #TheLoveThatRemains, #WutheringHeights, Baz Luhrmann's #EPiC:ElvisPresleyinConcert, #Pillion, #The2026OscarNominatedShorts - Animation, Live Action and Documentary. vimeo.com/1166190292

Pálmason pivots from the period missionary expedition of "Godland," to an intimate family drama, the films connected by a main character's artistic pursuits..This is a family that continually ebbs and flows like the ocean which surrounds it #TheLoveThatRemains www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

If those who idolize celebrities feel like they know them, Luhrmann has probably gotten as close to that real intimacy with his presentation of Presley as possible, connecting us with the artist the way the Elvis connected with his audience. #ElvisPresley #EPiC www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/epic...

"The five documentary shorts nominated for the 2026 Oscar are a reflection of today's world and, with the exception of one outlier, the effect is the opposite of uplifting." #2026OscarNominatedDocumentaryShorts www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/2026...

"Viva Verdi!" is an absolute delight - I never knew Verdi considered 'his greatest work' this retirement home for singers and musicians in Milan. We're treated to several profiles of residents, all with amazing stories. Jolt.com Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wrm...