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Challengers - Movie Review Critics Score - 6 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 I enjoy playing most sports, but Tennis is one that I’ve never really gotten into or even understood all that well. Each “point” moves in fifteen point increments? I believe there are sets, game, match and love? In the word of the immortal Tina Turner, “What’s love got to do with it?”. In any case, my knowledge of tennis aside, the new film Challengers from Luca Guadagnino is about a trio of tennis players between whom a love triangle forms. This trio is comprised of the incredibly hot actors Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor and Zendaya. The chemistry between them is mostly believable but not off the charts, through some sequences the character motivations and interactions were questionable despite the smoldering tension present. And with a two hour plus runtime, there was plenty of time to get to know these characters well. The score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross who worked with Guadagnino on his last film...

Sasquatch Sunset - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 5 of 10 Everybody loves a good monster movie. From the dawn of cinema, the unknown creatures of the underwater realm, dark woods, forests and otherwise uncharted areas that might care to pay us a visit in the nighttime hours, has long been the source of many a child’s lost hours of sleep. Even as adults, a walk through unfamiliar areas of remote locations at night can still make the tiniest doubts about monsters still creep up from the deep recesses of our minds with the simple snap of a twig off in the distance. But for all the scary movies about monsters we have, the Zellner brothers have brought us a new type of monster movie called Sasquatch Sunset. In the film, we follow a group of forest “monsters” through the back woods and we observe them going about their daily lives. Most of the situations presented in the film skew towards the comical, but there’s also some sobriety in some of the scenes. Discla...

Hundreds Of Beavers - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Kids Score - 8 of 10 Every so often a movie comes along that is so unique, original and sometimes wildly bizarre that they’re almost indescribable, there’s not much out there to compare them to. For instance, trying to explain to someone what A24’s Everything, Everywhere, All At One is like or even the Noah Baumback film White Noise on Netflix, they’re almost in a cinematic category unto themselves. The new film Hundreds Of Beavers surely would fall into a category all of its own, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. About the closest thing I could compare it to would be one of the Monty Python movies combined with a bit of Robot Dreams. I say Robot Dreams because the film contains virtually no spoken dialogue, its language devoid script means the film is based exclusively on visually based storytelling. Beavers is simple and clear to follow, it’s all black and white, the simplicity of the pl...

Late Night With The Devil - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Most of us are familiar with night talk shows such as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Pretty much the undisputed king of late night television was Mr. Johnny Carson, who ruled over the talk show dominion for about 30 years, from 1962-1992 where he hosted The Tonight Show. The new movie, Late Night With The Devil from IFC, is a film about a fictional rival to Johnny Carson played by David Dastmalchian. He hosts Night Owls, a talk show that was nipping at Carson’s heels for a time in the ratings and overall number of viewers; but couldn’t quite get over the hump. I’m not a massive late night talk show guy, I never watch any these days, but being familiar with the retro shows and style, I immediately took a liking to this film. Dastmalchian has such an engaging look, he’s attractive enough to pull off the late night host but looks strange enough that...

Civil War - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 I’m a simple film critic. People make movies and I assess them via a number of measurables from a technical perspective, but also with my own preferences and biases I try and determine a films “worthiness”. I simply watch films and try and direct people to watch ones I think are of exceptional value or interest. Is what I do important? I don’t feel it is. It is my hobby, I don’t do it for money, I do it because I love it. I love that I live in a country where I have the freedom to make those decisions for myself and that I can live the way I want to with my family. I love that English director Alex Garland has the freedom to make the movies he wants to make, including the latest film from A24, Civil War. This film follows a group of journalists as they make their way towards Washington D.C. to try and interview the president. Except in this fictional world, the president has effectively ended the constitu...

Monkey Man - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Although extremely popular, the revenge thriller premise is a mainstay of narrative film storytelling. From Kill Bill to the John Wick franchise to basically every Liam Neeson film from the last twenty years, the box office has proved these films can typically turn a profit. While I used to get a kick out of these types of movies in years past, I find they hold less and less of an interest for me, as my brain leans less toward wanting to be switched off and just enjoying some monsters destroying each other or other monotonous violence and instead favors being engaged on deeper themes and life lessons. The new film Monkey Man from actor turned director Dev Patel is a sleek action thriller with enough violence and blood to soak through even the most plastic covered movie recliners. While the film utilizes some different tactics in setting up and delivering the age old revenge plot, in the end I found mysel...

How To Have Sex - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Our experiences in this life are one of the many components that help shape us into who we are. Both the good and the bad, what we go through and how our minds process these external events mold our personalities as we traverse this human experience. This is just one of the themes that Molly Manning Walker feels like contemplating in the new film that she’s written and directed, How To Have Sex, which is now streaming on Mubi here in the U.S. This film tells us the story of three female friends, probably all in their late teens, as they go for a girls trip/party/vacation, drinking, clubbing and trying to hook up. While simply looking for a good time, they don’t seem to consider how some of the events and decisions made within these few days could reverberate through the rest of their lives. In addition to the the events that shape us, the topics of plutonic female friendship, virginity and one’s los...