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Unidentified Objects (2022) |
Wildly entertaining, refreshingly bold and unconventional, but not funny, bonkers or brilliant enough to join the club of midnight cult classics. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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Lynch/Oz (2022) |
Tedious, dull and too limited in scope. Even film students will most likely fall asleep while watching it. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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Padre Pio (2022) |
Shallow, dull and monotonous. It's a squandered opportunity to be a provocative and profound glimpse into the heart and mind of a tortured soul. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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Rise (2022) |
An empowering journey with exhilarating dance sequences, but it's ultimately undercooked and bites off more than it could chew. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
A triumph! It's an exhilarating, rousing spectacle brimming with palpable thrills, suspense, humor, and a warm, beating heart. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
Wise, honest and genuinely heartfelt. It's destined to become a classic love story. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Falcon Lake (2022) |
A gently moving, atmospheric and captivating coming-of-age film. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Concerned Citizen (2022) |
A poignant and captivating psychological character study. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 30, 2023
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The Boogeyman (2023) |
An uninspired, lazy and repetitive B-movie masquerading as an A-movie. It doesn't even hold a candle to The Babadook. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 29, 2023
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The Wind & the Reckoning (2022) |
Mildly engaging with breathtaking, poetic scenery, but emotionally hollow, tedious and undercooked. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 27, 2023
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The Machine (2023) |
An unimaginative and toothless dark comedy that's more much meanspirited and dull than funny. It's just as disappointing as Renfield, Mafia Mamma and About My Father. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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Kandahar (2023) |
An overlong, tedious and anemic snoozefest that's low on thrills, suspense and intrigue. In a double feature with Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, it would be the vastly inferior B-movie. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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We Might as Well Be Dead (2022) |
One of the most provocative, razor-sharp and wickedly funny satires since Triangle of Sadness and The Lobster. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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The Wrath of Becky (2023) |
Lean and mean, but witless, tedious and often inane. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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The Attachment Diaries (2021) |
A wildly entertaining, gripping, stylish and refreshingly unpredictable thriller. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 23, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) |
A captivating, witty and perceptive portrait of a marriage. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 23, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
Less heartfelt, funny, enchanting and exhilarating than the beloved animated classic. Why fix it if it ain't broken? - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 23, 2023
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Fast X (2023) |
A loud, bloated and exhausting bore that's not even fun to watch while stoned. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Stay Awake (2022) |
An honest, wise and genuinely heartfelt slice-of-life with just the right balance of humor and heartbreak. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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The Night of the 12th (2022) |
Spellbinding and engrossing. One of the best psychological crime thrillers since Zodiac and No Country for Old Men. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Moon Garden (2022) |
A surreal, visually dazzling and creepy experience, but concurrently exhausting and tedious with excessive style over substance. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Dotty & Soul (2022) |
Unfunny, witless and dull despite Leslie Uggams' charismatic and lively performance. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 16, 2023
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Fool's Paradise (2023) |
A more silly than funny satire that pales compared to funnier and smarter Hollywood satires like The Player, Bowfinger, What Just Happened and State and Main. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Knights of the Zodiac (2023) |
Overlong, clunky and anemic while failing to deliver palpable thrills.
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Mercy (2023) |
A dull, lackluster and monotonous B-movie. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Rally Road Racers (2023) |
An enormously entertaining, exhilarating, delightful adventure for the whole family. It will make you stand up and cheer! - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 11, 2023
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Hypnotic (2023) |
A mind-numbing, uneven and clunky mess that's not bad or campy enough to be a guilty pleasure B-movie. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 11, 2023
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The Starling Girl (2023) |
Mildly engaging, somewhat bland, shallow and undercooked, but it's saved by Eliza Scanlen's emotional honest performance. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 10, 2023
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Monica (2022) |
A gently moving, nuanced and poetic emotional journey. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 10, 2023
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L'immensità (2022) |
Captivating, tender and genuinely heartfelt. Luana Giuliani gives a moving breakthrough performance, - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 09, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023) |
Spellbinding, funny and heartfelt. It's as enormously entertaining as Air. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 09, 2023
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Anxious Nation (2022) |
Mildly engaging, but it's somewhat dry, incomplete and ultimately bites off more than it could chew. The filmmakers fail to find the right balance between entertaining the audience and provoking them emotionally as well as intellectually. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 06, 2023
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Love Again (2023) |
Heartwarming, tender and witty. If you enjoy 90's romcoms like You've Got Mail and While You Were Sleeping, you'll probably enjoy Love Again, too. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 05, 2023
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One Ranger (2023) |
A mildly engaging, but mindless and dull action thriller that's elevated by Thomas Jane's charisma and thrilling action scenes. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 05, 2023
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The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons (2022) |
Fascinating and illuminating. If you're unfamiliar with Hammons' work, prepare to be concurrently intrigued by his artwork and surprised that he's not more widely known as an artist. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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Double Life (2023) |
Convoluted, clunky and increasingly implausible with waning suspense and poor use of exposition. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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You Can Live Forever (2022) |
A mildly engaging, but monotonous and underwhelming coming-of-age story with moving performances by Anwen O'Driscoll and June Laporte - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 03, 2023
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022) |
A harmless and intermittently funny, but conventional romcom without enough surprises, wit or insight about love or friendship. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted May 02, 2023
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Born to Fly (2023) |
A thrilling and exhilarating spectacle that provides a rush of pure adrenaline. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 30, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
Overlong, clunky and dull. It's high on schmaltz and visual Spectacle while low on laughs, wit and palpable thrills. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 30, 2023
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32 Sounds (2022) |
A meditative a sonic journey, but ultimately too broad and unfocused. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 29, 2023
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Nuclear Now (2022) |
An illuminating and persuasive wake-up call. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 29, 2023
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Broadway (2022) |
Audacious and unconventional, but ultimately underwhelming and less than the sum of its many parts. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (2022) |
An engrossing, captivating and meditative spiritual journey.
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World (2023) |
Mildly engaging, but often shallow, unfocused and saccharine. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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The Eight Mountains (2022) |
Poetic with breathtaking scenery, but overlong, undercooked and emotionally cold. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Those Who Remained (2019) |
Genuinely warm, tender and understated. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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The Black Demon (2023) |
A bland, unscary and dumb B-movie with a meandering, bait-and-switch plot that fails to deliver palpable thrills. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 26, 2023
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The Artifice Girl (2022) |
Provocative and timely, but concurrently exhausting and monotonous. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 26, 2023
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The End of Sex (2022) |
A dull, toothless and shallow sex comedy that's low on wit, laughs and insight. - NYC Movie Guru
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| Posted Apr 26, 2023
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