"a deliciously dark satire that is highly amusing while packing a socioeconomic punch." #NoOtherChoice #ParkChan-wook www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/no-o...

"Perhaps the scariest element of writer/director Zak Hilditch's unique take on the zombie genre is that it is the first time in my recollection where the U.S. has been made the bad guy by a country we consider an ally." #WeBuryTheDead #DaisyRidley www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/we-b...

#ThePlague is an unsettling portrait of the cruelty inflicted by children trying to carve out their positions in society and Polinger's stylish debut makes him a filmmaker to watch. #EverettBlunck #KayoMartin #JoelEdgerton #KennyRasmussen www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"Arnett, asea separately, and Dern, energetic on her own, are just wonderful together, convincing of a long held partnership that could use some refreshing, each changing for the better having been given room to grow. Cooper is great comic relief..." www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/is-t...

"We learn a lot about Marty in the film's first few minutes...opening credits which feature hard charging sperm fertilizing an egg which turns into a ping pong ball a microcosm of the entire film." #MartySupreme #TimothéeChalamet #JoshSafdie #GwynethPaltrow www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/mart...

"a joyous crowd pleaser about two people whose love of performance turned into love for each other...the film belongs to a radiant Kate Hudson" #SongSungBlue #HughJackman #KateHudson #NeilDiamond www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/song...

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On Reeling #882 Laura and Robin reveal their 2025 Top Ten lists and review #MartySupreme, #ThePlague, #TheHousemaid, #SongSungBlue, #AvatarFire&Ash, #IsThisThingOn? and #DustBunny. vimeo.com/1147523193

enjoyable trash, at least until it turns into outright trash. Seyfried plunges herself into this over the top spectacle that combines glitzy lifestyles with lowbrow shenanigans as Sweeney's necklines plunge ever deeper. #TheHousemaid #AmandaSeyfried www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"visually astounding...but...a story that features repetitive captures and escapes, a climax that looks a lot like the last one and spends over three hours to advance just one new concept is exactly why this franchise is suffering fatigue." #AvatarFireAndAsh www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/avat...

Available now on VOD - A must see for any fans of the true crime genre, #ZodiacKillerProject is destined to make you laugh, think and perhaps be taken aback by the lack of ethics often employed...You'll never watch a true crime documentary the same way again. www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/zodi...

"Reuniting with his Hannibal Lecter, who is now a loner hitman with empathy for an orphaned child, Fuller has created a horror fantasy fairy tale with offbeat humor and whimsical production design" #DustBunny #MadsMikkelsen #BryanFuller www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/dust...

"There is a reason Sorrentino keeps casting Servillo, who makes this man known for his middle ground politics far more complex than we expect...a portrait of a beloved politician leaving office with grace." #LaGrazia #PaoloSorrentino #ToniServillo www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/la-g...

"Filho...has stated that his film is about memory and that is reflected in the fractured recollections and various audio recordings reconstructing Armando's history." #TheSecretAgent #WagnerMoura #KleberMendonçaFilho www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

On Reeling #881 Laura and Robin review #TheSecretAgent, #Resurrection, #NoOtherChoice, #LaGrazia, #ZodiacKillerProject, #WakeUpDeadMan and #Zootopia2 vimeo.com/1143288002

Looking for a gift for a cinephile? " Merchant Ivory hit its peak in 1992 and 1993... Cohen Media has just released a 4K UHD Blu-ray of a 4K restoration of the first film and it looks gorgeous..." #HowardsEnd #EmmaThompson #AnthonyHopkins #MerchantIvory www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/howa...

"Rian Johnson pits a pugilistic priest with love in his heart against a fear-mongering monsignor with love for his loins in his latest "Knives Out" mystery. Private investigator Benoit Blanc will take on the mantle of confessor and savior..." #WakeUpDeadMan www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/wake...

"If "Zootopia" was about gaining power through divisive politics, its sequel addresses gentrification, again through a lens of class and racism...Vocal talent is expertly cast, Ke Huy Quan a standout as the lisping, one-fanged snake." #Zootopia2 www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/zoot...

Sometimes a movie just rubs one the wrong way - "a romcom whose outcome is never in doubt, seriously undermining any rooting interest in one half of its equation" #EternityMovie #MilesTeller #ElizabethOlsen #CallumTurner www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/eter...

"Hamnet" is about the healing power of art, but when all is said and done, the film feels like a long setup for its extraordinary, final scene. #Hamnet #JessieBuckly #PaulMescal #ChloeZhao www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/hamn...

8 movies in < 30 min. - On Reeling #880 Laura and Robin review #WickedforGood, #Hamnet, #Eternity, #RentalFamily,#JayKelly, #LeftHandedGirl and #TheRunningMan vimeo.com/1138746856

"Baumbach's character study of a sixty year-old movie star who realizes too late that he's pushed away what matters in life is ironically overshadowed by the more emotionally rich portrayal of that man's manager, Ron Sukenick..." #JayKelly #AdamSandler www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/jay-...

"brings more emotion than its predecessor..it is impressive how this new perspective on Baum's classic weaves itself into his story, with origin tales for all of Dorothy Gale's Ozian companions" #WickedForGood #CynthiaEviro #ArianaGrande #JohnMChu #MichelleYeoh www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/wick...

"The phenomenon has been made into a film before, but few have probably seen Werner Herzog's 2019 "Family Romance, LLC"...like one of those sentimental films Miramax specialized in in the 90's" #RentalFamily #BrendanFraser www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/rent...

"the filmmaker has found her perfect five year-old counterpart in Nina Ye, the adorably precocious center of a multi-family and multi-generational tale." #LeftHandedGirl www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/left...

"Sachs illustrates what two actors can do with material that flits from inside baseball to the banal and he's given them both the canvas and a frame to set them off." #PeterHujarsDay #IraSachs #BenWhishaw #RebeccaHall www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/pete...

"As far as this year's adaptations of dystopian Stephen King stories go, a long walk proves more stimulating than a lengthy run." #TheRunningMan #EdgarWright #GlenPowell #StephenKing www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"Skarsgård soars as the aging filmmaker trying to reconnect with his daughter, one he understands more than she had realized. The actor stops us dead in our tracks with his expression...seeing his own mortality in his friend." #SentimentalValue #JoachimTrier www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/sent...

"As far as this year's adaptations of dystopian Stephen King stories go, a long walk proves more stimulating than a lengthy run." #TheRunningMan #EdgarWright #GlenPowell #StephenKing www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"Gerchak and Guterman go for comedy with heart and while their film takes a while to find its feet, when they eventually get to the climactic 'Lost and Found' taping and its aftermath, the film is sweetly satisfying." #Lost&FoundInCleveland #JuneSquibb www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/lost...

"along comes a piece of cinema with so much soul it moves you to your very core...encompasses not only a period which saw vast changes in technology and the American landscape, but comes close to defining that elusive mystery of existence." #TrainDreams www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/trai...

On Reeling #879 Laura and Robin review Train Dreams, Sentimental Value, Nuremberg, Die My Love, Nouvelle Vague, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Christy and Hallow Road. vimeo.com/1134070231

"Writer/director James Vanderbilt reveals some of the lesser known aspects of the Nuremberg trials while pointedly highlighting historical lessons relevant to today...the film belongs to Crowe, who hasn't been this intriguing in a movie in some time" #Nuremberg www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/nure...

""Die My Love" seems to elude one's grasp, the filmmaker going all in on impressionistic visuals over practical human drama. Still, the film entices with its over the top passions and Lawrence's blow the house down performance." #DieMyLove #JenniferLawrence www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/die-...

"The animation here is distinctive, an unusual palette of salmons and peaches against unnatural greens and pinks used for us to view nature through the eyes of a toddler." #LittleAmelieortheCharacterofRain #animation www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/litt...

"After this year's "Echo Valley" Sweeney appears to be choosing parts that showcase her as a serious acting talent and she certainly disappears into this role as a scrappy underdog who fights her way to the top while enduring domestic violence at home #Christy www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/chri...

"...has a familiar feel...until it doesn't and while some may find that mysterious conclusion something to turn over and over looking for a solution, others may find one too many things that just don't quite add up." #HallowRoad #RosamundPike #MatthewRhys www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/hall...

"Those who don't know the seven directors of the French New Wave or the movie "Breathless" may not find much to latch onto here...but for those who do, "Nouvelle Vague" is sheer delight, a breezy, playful look at Godard's process..." #NouvelleVague www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/nouv...

Panahi's Palme d'Or winner - "a film about justice, revenge and accountability and the differing ways people move past trauma. It is also tinged with mystery, sadness and, surprisingly, humor and a little bit of joy..." #ItWasJustAnAccident #JafarPanahi www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/it-w...

Director Richard Linklater sat on screenwriter Robert Kaplow's witty and moving script for ten years in order for Ethan Hawke to be the right age to play Hart and his gambit has resulted in his best work since 2014's "Boyhood." #BlueMoon #EthanHawke www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/blue...

On Reeling #878 Laura and Robin review #Bugonia, #ItWaJustanAccident, #SpringsteenDeliverMeFromNowhere, #TheMastermind, #IfIHadLegsI'dKickYou, #BlueMoon, #BlackPhone2 and #GoodFortune. vimeo.com/1129722572

"Jeremy Allen White is saddled with portraying depression in a film that never really gets us into his head, the actor spending a large part of the run time staring off into space." #SpringsteenDeliverMeFromNowhere #JeremyAllenWhite #JeremyStrong www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/spri...

"Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons going toe to toe in compellingly contrasting performances. Still, having seen the original Korean film, "Bugonia" proved somewhat underwhelming" #Bugonia #EmmaStone #JessePlemons #YorgosLanthimos www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/bugo...

"O'Connor has been building a varied body of work and this role may offer his best to date, the man's enigmatic smile hinting at unjustified confidence until the noose begins to tighten." #TheMastermind #KellyReichardt #JoshOConnor #GabyHoffman #HopeDavis www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"Bronstein plunges us into Linda's psyche, an avalanche of escalating anxiety over the course of almost two hours that, thankfully, is frequently hilarious in its situations and Linda's reactions to them, providing periodic release." #IfIHadLegsIdKickYou www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/if-i...

"Reeves...moves from the outer edges of the film to its center as he becomes a human, his joy of dancing and eating 'chicken nuggies' endearing...If only Ansari's direction of the film was as sure footed as Reeves' performance." #GoodFortune #KeanuReeves www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/good...

"So, how does the killer get brought back for a sequel? In a film that plays like "A Nightmare on Elm St." without the humor crossed with "The Shining."" #BlackPhone2 www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/blac...

"Dickenson's is a solid debut, exhibiting a compassionate voice. Dillane's Mike, with his corolla of unbrushed hair that rests on his head like a cloud, is a man worth saving who keeps getting lost." #Urchin #FrankDillane #HarrisDickinson www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/urch...

"The veteran director and debuting screenwriter tackle all kinds of current issues in addition to #MeToo from identity politics to self medication to class structures and in her most complex role to date, Julia Roberts juggles them all." #AfterTheHunt www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/afte...