Genre Reviews

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The Territory

The Territory (2022)

The Uru-eu-wau-wau are an extremely small Indigenous tribe (population about 180) in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Not contacted by “civilized” folks until the 1980s, they continue to live...

Linda
Bullet Train (2022)

Bullet Train (2022)

Since Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and Robert Rodriguez and their ilk first started riddling the screen with rapid-fire dialogue to complement equally rapid-fire bullets, the quippy, self-aware ultra-violent action...

Linda
Thirteen Lives

Thirteen Lives (2022)

Do you get claustrophobic? Do you have a fear of getting buried alive and/or drowning? Then Thirteen Lives may not be the most relaxing viewing for you. For the...

Linda
Nope

Nope (2022)

There is a moment in Nope, Jorden Peele’s latest in his surprising and very welcome career as a filmmaker: OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), a very mild-mannered rancher races home to...

Linda
Anything's Possible

Anything’s Possible (2022)

Kesha (Eva Reign) is confident and beautiful and Khal (Abubakr Ali) is kind and sweet. They are two adorable high school seniors who cutely and awkwardly start full-on crushing...

Linda
Fire of Love (2022)

Fire of Love (2022)

Two French volcanologists meet and fall in love in the late 60s, have an explosive and volcanic relationship, both with each other and with the volcanos that they love,...

Linda
Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Delia Owens’ 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing was (and continues to be) a blockbuster of a book. By the beginning of 2022, it had sold 12 million copies,...

Linda
Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

In our previous chapter with Thor the Space Viking, director Taika Waititi (mercifully) unleashed Chris Hemsworth’s untapped comedy skills, reviving the dullest Marvel series with probably the weirdest, and...

Linda
The Black Phone

The Black Phone (2022)

Like many people, I like a good scare. And like any other kid who grew up in the 70s, I knew that all I had to do at the...

Linda
Firestarter (2022)

Firestarter (2022)

If you are familiar with Stephen King’s novel or the 1984 film, you may notice in the new film that the plot a watered down version of the original,...

Jennifer
Elvis (2022)

Elvis (2022)

I had very high, if measured anticipation for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. The trailer dropped at a time that I (like most of the world) was positively thirsting for some...

Linda
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

Nancy (the always-glorious Emma Thompson) is a recently-widowed retired schoolteacher. Leo (Daryl McCormack) is a sex worker that Nancy has hired to meet her in a nice hotel room....

Linda