About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): Hamnet tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. Hamnet is a film that manages to be both quiet and devastatingly loud in its emotional delivery. This is a cinematic experience that demands patience but rewards it with a profound sense of …
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Time for a Reel ETERNITY review
About the film (courtesy of A24): In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to …
Time for a Reel WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY review
About the film (courtesy of Netflix): When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. Wicks’s modest-but-devoted flock includes devout church lady Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), circumspect groundskeeper Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), tightly-wound lawyer Vera …
Time for a Reel WICKED: FOR GOOD review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): The final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) estranged and living with the consequences of their choices. Wicked: For Good continues where the first part, Wicked (2024), left off. Honestly, pulling a fast one like …
Time for a Reel THE RUNNING MAN review
About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate …
Time for a Reel NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T review
About the film (courtesy of Lionsgate): The Four Horsemen return along with a new generation of illusionists performing mind-melding twists, turns, surprises, and magic unlike anything ever captured on film. After almost a decade, the master illusionists known as The Four Horsemen have finally resurfaced, dispelling any notion that they had vanished forever. The third …
Time for a Reel NUREMBERG review
About the film (courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics): The Allies, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon), have the task of ensuring the Nazi regime answers for the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust while a US Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) is locked in a dramatic psychological duel with former Reichsmarschall Herman …
Time for a Reel PREDATOR: BADLANDS review
About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): Set in the future on a remote planet where a young Predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. Dan Trachtenberg continues to up his game in revitalizing a …
Time for a Reel BUGONIA review
About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Based on its trailers and director, Yorgos Lanthimos, whose filmography is anything but boring, Bugonia promises a wild ride from start to finish. It …
Time for a Reel A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE review
About the film (courtesy of Netflix): When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. Kathryn Bigelow returns to the cinematic landscape with a high-stakes, nerve-wracking thriller that grabs the viewer from the opening sequence. This is a feature engineered for …