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Fletcher Powell
Tomatometer-approved critic
Fletcher Powell is a producer, host, and film critic for KMUW public radio in Wichita, KS.
Movies reviews only
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) |
The movie knows exactly what it is ... It doesn’t take itself seriously, but it’s also never winking at us, which is a fine line to walk. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Retribution (2023) |
We do kind of get an idea of how irritating it would be to be stuck in a car with a bomb under your seat, two kids in the back, and a voice insisting you follow vague and confusing directions. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Aug 31, 2023
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Bottoms (2023) |
In short, Bottoms is nuts. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Aug 31, 2023
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Miguel Wants To Fight (2023) |
Miguel Wants to Fight is a nice little summer surprise. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Aug 17, 2023
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Full Time (2021) |
Sometimes the only way to keep going is to keep going. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Aug 07, 2023
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The League (2023) |
The League is a pretty good documentary that I wish were better. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
Past Lives is the sort of thing that might blow a hole in your chest if you hold regrets about roads not taken. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Asteroid City (2023) |
Asteroid City is arguably Anderson’s greatest artistic achievement and his most thematically dense. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Extraction 2 (2023) |
There’s nothing that feels like you could touch it or smell it. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Showing Up (2022) |
It reminds us that art is a real thing that real people do, not some mysterious sorcery. Even if it is a little bit magical. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Reality (2023) |
That Satter and Sweeney are able to create such suspense when we already know where we’re going is a testament to their abilities. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) |
There aren’t sides for us to take, because this is just how life is. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Kandahar (2023) |
It’s not unwatchable, although some of it is plainly unforgiveable. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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White Men Can't Jump (2023) |
About as memorable as a scrimmage. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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They Cloned Tyrone (2023) |
They Cloned Tyrone is a movie that I initially wished were as clever as it seemed to want to be, and then turned out to be far more clever than I was giving it credit for. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Cars 3 (2017) |
Cars 3 is every sports movie you’ve ever seen. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Beatriz at Dinner (2017) |
... an effective study of character and what’s really important in our lives ... - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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The Beguiled (2017) |
It’s the sort of movie you let wash over you. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Okja (2017) |
Despite all of the craziness going on all around, we believe in the superpig. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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The Big Sick (2017) |
The characters are funny, but not too funny, the stakes seem real, and you can tell that everyone really cares about each other. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023) |
BlackBerry is incredibly entertaining. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Polite Society (2023) |
Everyone’s clearly having a whole lot of fun. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) |
There’s an alternate universe where David Lowery made a Peter Pan movie with ultimate freedom, and imagining that makes watching Peter Pan & Wendy a little bittersweet. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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Chevalier (2022) |
A story that should have been full of swashbuckling, heat, creative ecstasy, and boldness instead turns inert, muted, and moody. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only (2022) |
This film is immensely entertaining. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Paint (2023) |
You’ll find plenty of happy trees here, you’ll just need to brush away all the debris around them. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Rye Lane (2023) |
There’s a real joy in watching a movie just do its own thing. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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The Lost King (2022) |
[Frears] knows his audience and doesn’t try to get too flashy, while mostly keeping things moving at pace. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Boston Strangler (2023) |
This has to be one of the worst looking movies I can remember. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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We Have a Ghost (2023) |
It’s all far too long and tries to pack in way too much, but it’s cute and pleasant enough, and ... I probably would have loved it when I was 10. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Sharper (2023) |
That everything does eventually come together by the end isn’t nearly as satisfying as it should be, largely because none of this has been any fun. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
Usually, no one likes to see the sausage being made, but when it comes to art, watching that process is thrilling. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
You almost always have to decide if you’re willing to accept the obvious problems in [Shyamalan's] movies in order to also get the truly great stuff. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023) |
Skarsgård is fantastic ... and Goth is even better. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022) |
It’s a movie that’s absolutely, 100 percent committed to itself. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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The Drop (2022) |
[The filmmakers] aren’t concerned with telling you very loudly that this is funny, they just let it be funny. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022) |
Sometimes the journey is enough, even if the destination isn’t quite what we’d hoped for. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Nanny (2022) |
It's a reminder to me of how African filmmaking has the most trenchant social commentary I've seen from anywhere in the world. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
What’s really, truly embarrassing is how completely sure Damien Chazelle is that he’s absolutely nailing every scene in this movie. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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The Eternal Daughter (2022) |
What Joanna Hogg does stylistically with this film is wondrous. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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EO (2022) |
EO is a thrilling piece of filmmaking, an exquisite example both of film as art and of the ability of filmmaking techniques to make us feel and see things in very particular ways. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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Bones and All (2022) |
The movie hits the notes you’re used to from this kind of story, plus, you know, cannibalism, and what this ends up meaning is that it’s not ultimately all that interesting once you get past that initial shock. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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Disenchanted (2022) |
Disenchanted didn’t have to be this way. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
The Menu is not what you would call good family fun, but it could be fun to watch this Thanksgiving with a particularly perverse family. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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Vesper (2022) |
The movie creates an astounding world to look at, and it smartly doesn’t try to explain every strange detail. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Nov 16, 2022
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See How They Run (2022) |
I think it’ll be more successful for you if you’ve only seen three or four other movies. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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Athena (2022) |
It’s one of the best things you’ll see this year. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
The Banshees of Inisherin is kind of a wonder. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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To Leslie (2022) |
... you’d expect we’d have given up on Leslie, too, but Riseborough has drawn us so thoroughly in that we can’t stop watching her ... - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Oct 11, 2022
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The Justice of Bunny King (2021) |
It’s an exercise in forcing us to see people as more than their actions, or at least reminding us that we never really know what other people are going through. - KMUW - Wichita Public Radio
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| Posted Oct 11, 2022
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