Movie reviews

24 Feb

We Have a Ghost

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

Finding a ghost named Ernest (David Harbour) haunting their new home turns Kevin's family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of Ernest's past, they become a target of the CIA.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Feb 24, 2023

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24 Feb

Cocaine Bear

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Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow . . . and blood.Rated: RRelease Date: Feb 24, 2023

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23 Feb

Jesus Revolution

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In the 1970s, Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene (Kimberly Williams-Paisley). Laurie and a sea of young people descend on sunny Southern California to redefine truth through all means of liberation. Everything changes when Laurie meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher, and Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer) who have thrown open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to a stream of wandering youth. What unfolds becomes the greatest spiritual awakening in American history. Rock and roll, radical love, and newfound faith lead to a Jesus Revolution that turns one counterculture movement into…

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23 Feb

Bruiser

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14-year-old Darious (Jalyn Hall) explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm (Shamier Anderson), his strict but loving father, and Porter (Trevante Rhodes), a charismatic drifter. When Darious learns Porter’s true identity, he is thrust into a conflict between the two men that may rip his family apart and threaten his safety.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 24, 2023

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22 Feb

Linoleum

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Cameron Edwin (Jim Gaffigan), the host of a failing children's science TV show called Above & Beyond, has always had aspirations of being an astronaut. After a mysterious space-race era satellite coincidentally falls from space and lands in his backyard, his midlife crisis manifests in a plan to rebuild the machine into his dream rocket. As his relationship with his wife (Rhea Seehorn) and daughter (Katelyn Nacon) start to strain, surreal events begin unfolding around him—a doppelgänger moving into the house next door, a car falling from the sky, and an unusual teenage boy forging a friendship with him. He…

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22 Feb

A House Made of Splinters

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

Children and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 21, 2023

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18 Feb

Swallowed

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After a drug run goes bad, two friends must survive a nightmarish ordeal of drugs, bugs and horrific intimacy in this backwoods body-horror thriller. Rated: RRelease Date: Feb 14, 2023

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18 Feb

The Civil Dead

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

Clay is a loner photographer who enjoys a mundane life with his artist wife Whitney in Los Angeles. Whitney advises Clay, who has been creatively stagnant and unemployed for months, to go out and be productive while she’s out of town and not to “just lay in the living room and drink beer”. While taking photos out in a park, Clay happens upon his long-lost friend, Whit. After a night of catching up, Whit discloses an unsettling secret to Clay, which puts a strain on his marriage and causes him to question his own sanity.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 03,…

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17 Feb

Hidden Blade

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

During World War II, at the height of China’s war of resistance against Japan, a group of courageous citizens develops a top-secret underground espionage network right under the nose of the newly established puppet regime. At increasingly great peril to their own lives, the double-agents masterfully extract classified information from deep behind enemy lines, an effort that gives rise to the united front that will help turn the tide of the conflict.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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17 Feb

A Radiant Girl

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Paris, summer 1942. Irene (Rebecca Marder) is a 19-year-old aspiring actress without a care in the world. Her family watches her discover friends, new love and a passion for the theater, all the while without her realizing that time is running out. Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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17 Feb

The Integrity of Joseph Chambers

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Insurance salesman and family man Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford) wants to acquire the skills to be able to take care of his family in case of an apocalypse. He decides to go deer hunting by himself for the first time ever, despite his wife’s objections. Setting out into the mountains with a borrowed rifle, Joe roams the woods aimlessly in his search for deer. His boredom is short-lived, however, when in the blink of an eye, Joe undergoes a traumatic experience. What starts as an experiment to prove himself as a capable father and husband turns into a nightmare as…

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17 Feb

She Is Love

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Coming face-to-face after being estranged for over a decade, divorced couple, Idris (Sam Riley) and Patricia (Haley Bennett), opt to revisit the past and traverse that treacherous path together, emerging open to new beginnings.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 03, 2023

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16 Feb

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

The days of adventures and merriment have come to an end, as Christopher Robin, now a young man, has left Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet to fend for themselves. As time passes, feeling angry and abandoned, the two become feral. After getting a taste for blood, Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet set off to find a new source of food. It’s not long before their bloody rampage begins.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 16, 2023

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16 Feb

The First Step

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In a divided America, Van Jones controversially works across party lines on landmark criminal justice reform and a more humane response to America's addiction crisis. Attempting to be a bridge builder in a time of extreme polarization takes him deep into the inner workings of a divisive administration, internal debates within both parties, and the lives of frontline activists fighting for their communities.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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16 Feb

88

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The Financial Director for a democratic super PAC behind a frontrunner presidential candidate investigates donations uncovering a conspiracy.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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16 Feb

Devil’s Peak

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

Set in the Appalachian Mountains, Devil’s Peak is a tense thriller about a family dominated by a crime lord (Billy Bob Thornton) who controls his family and his business with his fists. When his son (Hopper Penn) meets the girl of his dreams (Katelyn Nacon), desperately wanting to escape the life he is expected to lead and free himself from the clutches of his father, he is forced to go head-to-head with the terrifying man who will stop at nothing to ensure loyalty from all of those around him.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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16 Feb

Pacifiction

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumour has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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15 Feb

Of an Age

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

Set in the summer of 1999, an 17-year-old Serbian born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother.Rated: RRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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14 Feb

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

The official kick off of phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe finds Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought was possible. Rated: PG-13Release Date: Feb 17, 2023

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14 Feb

Emily

Max SchindlerMovie reviews

Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30.Rated: RRelease Date: Feb 17, 2023

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