http://grouchoreviews.com/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 02:25:53 GMT Film/DVD reviews, interviews and features. http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5285 /reviews/5285 Despite his film having prestige written all over it, Nolan the theoretical cineaste has rewritten the rules of the prestige picture...[with] his epic reconstruction and deconstruction of the Manhattan Project and the man who organized it. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5284 /reviews/5284 It comes down to the extended climax to make or break Dead Reckoning...and happily, the finale delivers with what could be the most impressive train shenanigans since Buster Keaton‘s The General. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5282 /reviews/5282 [Spoiler-free review:] Mangold has practically worked a miracle: an experience that delivers everything a fan should want from an Indiana Jones movie...Congratulations, Disney. I can‘t wait to get on this ride again. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5281 /reviews/5281 [Spoiler-free review:] For all its flaws, The Flash proves strong on character where it counts as it serves up its MCU-style comedy, tragedy, and wow-factor visuals...In the final equation, the Scarlet Speedster gi Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5280 /reviews/5280 Offers too much sensational spectacle, melodrama, and high-stakes sci-fi adventure ever to bore its audience, but its echoes of exhausted blockbuster tropes ring hollow. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5278 /reviews/5278 A political movie of religious intrigue, well-acted and directed with a good script and great visual appeal. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5279 /reviews/5279 A tightrope act to have a conversation about race when your priority is to get laughs. Great cast, but by its climax you feel like the movie‘s the hammer and you‘re the nail. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5277 /reviews/5277 History on film. Well edited, bleak...vital journalism. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5276 /reviews/5276 Charmingly and frighteningly nostalgic, touching on feminist social satire. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5275 /reviews/5275 Tonally shifty, overlong, repetitive and as history simplistic, but well-made and an interesting effort to reach across the aisle from the socially liberal to the socially conservative. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5274 /reviews/5274 A deliberately paced, bleak, and unsettling morality play that never really gets much traction, spins its heels, and ultimately fails to find a way to make its material interesting. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5273 /reviews/5273 Not as hardcore as the in-your-face, bloody, gory, sweaty, dirty, puss-y, oozing, festering, nightmarish 1987 original, but still honors Clive Barker‘s concept with a stronger, more-interested-in-world-building narrative. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5268 /reviews/5268 Pretty low-key but enjoyable enough medieval coming-of-age comedy boasts a cheeky, naughty sense of humor and a period story complicated by class and the limited mobility of gender. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5267 /reviews/5267 A sci-fi romantic light comedy anchored by two charming lead performances which is less interested in laughs than it is in presenting an allegory of damaged people trying to hold on to love and happiness. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5266 /reviews/5266 Marginally improved...and Midler, Parker and Najimy still play their characters with the hammy gusto of 1966 Batman villains. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5265 /reviews/5265 If you love movies, you definitely want to be in this discussion. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5264 /reviews/5264 A spirited, meta, frothy and amusingly arch mystery comedy for theater nerds with a snappy script and a smashing cast. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5263 /reviews/5263 Effective in its refusal to spell out diagnoses or adopt a specific analytic take. Instead, it invites interpretation. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5262 /reviews/5262 A dark, timely and endlessly fascinating mood piece. Thandiwe Newton is perfection in a deep-dive character study that explores several interesting triangular conflicts. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5261 /reviews/5261 Perhaps the definitive documentary on Sidney Poitier, touching upon his cultural significance and challenging position as a transitional and transformative cultural figure. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT Peter Canavese