BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 06/30/2017

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BABY DRIVER

BABY DRIVER is a good source of entertainment that’s easy to appreciate right from the very beginning.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential

“I guess calling him CAR-LORD would’ve been a bit on the nose.” – Bob Chipman, Geek.com

“Does the film ever live up to the bliss of its opening moments? Not quite; but, I’ll be damned if it doesn’t try and succeed in, at the very least, being one of the coolest movies I’ll likely see this year.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston

“For a director of such awesome technical proficiency, Wright demonstrates with every precision-tooled edit that he knows how to make a movie, but he can’t seem to convey a compelling reason why.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery

“…the proverbial summer action movie, but done with enough wit and flair that you don’t feel like you’ve seen it over and over again…” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

The BeguiledTHE BEGUILED

“THE BEGUILED’s portraiture of the Southern belle archetype isn’t an endorsement. It’s a mounting indictment verging on satire.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine

“The film is full of wry observations about the countless little ways women become competitors once a man is introduced into the picture.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery

 

 

1498582524498-Okja_FF_004R-lOKJA

“We are even ‘treated’ to a scene where a drunken (man) takes samples of Okja flesh, cooks it up and then feeds it to taste testers who proclaim it the best pork they’ve ever eaten…It’s all pretty disgusting.” – John Black, Boston Event Guide

“In OKJA, Bong Joon Ho has created an imaginative film that’s well crafted and delivers much of what you might be hoping for.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential

“Love him or hate him, there’s nobody else making movies quite like this guy.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery

 

The-Big-Sick-movie-1THE BIG SICK

“If you were to spend just under two hours telling me this same story at a party, I’d be making up an excuse to leave the conversation. Just because you decide to film it doesn’t necessarily mean it was worth being filmed in the first place.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston

“This isn’t a *bad* movie per se, but it is an extremely frustrating one that left me longing for the days when rom-coms weren’t structured like THE RETURN OF THE KING.” – Sean Burns, Spliced Personality

 

 

full-trailer-despicable-me-3DESPICABLE ME 3

“Mainly due to the characters and their zany antics, DESPICABLE ME 3 works far better than it probably should have.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential

“This seems like a funny concept, but it turns out to be a handful of tired clichés, accented with some catchy ’80s pop music.” – Michael Cox, Edge Boston

“The real strength of the films is the writing and animation, which manage to provide laughs for all age levels from slapstick to sly pop culture references.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

BOFCA MID-WEEK ROUNDUP 6/29/2017

Tim Estiloz interviews Kumail Nanjiani

Dierdre Crimmins joins a podcast on Mummy movies

Andrew Crump interviews Ana Lily Amirpour and Trey Edward Shults

Kilian Melloy reviews new Blu-ray releases for THE VALACHI PAPERS, BRIDGE AT REMAGEN, T2 TRAINSPOTTING, THE LODGER and THE QUIET AMERICAN

Spoilerpiece Theatre talks WAR MACHINE, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT and THE BAD BATCH

Bob Chipman talks SPIDER-MAN and Classic Gaming

Dan Kimmel has a new short story

Joyce Kulhawik reviews FAT PIG, THE EFFECT and DAYS OF ATONEMENT

BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 06/23/2017

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHTtransformers

“If there’s a movie worse than this set for release this year, let’s hope the distributor has the good sense not to do it.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

“Like the movies that preceded it, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT is empty in virtually all aspects.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential

“By the obligatory third-act throwdown, we as an audience have been so nauseated and bored for hours that the final epic battle just feels more like work than enjoying an entertaining summer blockbuster.” – Nick Casaletto, We Live Entertainment

“I honestly don’t know how to meaningfully “critique” this nonsense anymore.” – Bob Chipman, Geek.com

 

 

bad-batchTHE BAD BATCH

“THE BAD BATCH is the kind of oddity that arrives early in promising careers, leaving the viewer bewildered but nonetheless eager to see what comes next.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery

“It’s messy, though astonishingly well-made, but then, maybe we shouldn’t expect a movie where cannibalism plays a central role to be clean.” – Andy Crump, A Constant Visual Feast

 

 

 

hero_Exception-2017THE EXCEPTION

“You could certainly do worse than to enjoy this film for its brash thrills and sumptuous visuals, while remaining open to its timely message.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston

 

BOFCA MID-WEEK ROUNDUP 6/21/2017

Kilian Melloy reviews LOST IN PARIS

Andrew Crump joins in on Paste’s Top 100 Horror Films list and reviews KILL SWITCH

Spoilerpiece Theatre talks ROUGH NIGHT, 47 METERS DOWN, THE BOOK OF HENRY and HELL HOUSE LLC

Bob Chipman looks back on FREAKAZOID! and ranks his Top Ten Nintendo NES Games

Nick Casaletto reviews AND THEN I GO, WHAT WE STARTED

Max Covill and Evan Crean talk 80s movies on Its The Pictures Podcast

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 06/16/2017

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CARS 3

“Pixar figured out how to sell the same exact toy again, just with a different outfit. If only this franchise justified this blatant marketing ploy, but alas.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston

“It will keep the young fans happy… but lacks the emotional impact of the far more involving TOY STORY sequels.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

 

rough-nightROUGH NIGHT

“Why is “Rough Night” different from all other “friends go on a drunken spree” movies? It generates laughs without having to humiliate its characters, or make you wonder why supposed adults would act like this.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

 

jacob-tremblay-in-the-book-of-henryTHE BOOK OF HENRY

“THE BOOK OF HENRY turns into something that never lives up to what it could have been due to there not being enough character development while also trying to do too much with the story.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential

“It’s not a film for everyone, but something so risky and vicious should be celebrated, and for that, The Book of Henry is great in my book.” – Nick Casaletto, We Live Entertainment

“…watching THE BOOK OF HENRY is a lot like noshing on an everything bagel, while driving an airboat through the nightmare tunnel in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory at breakneck speed.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine

 

 

full-trailer-mandy-moore-in-47-meters-down-696x46447 METERS DOWN

“47 METERS DOWN manages to squeeze everything it can out of the small amount of material that it actually has to work with.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential

 

 

 

abacussmallenoughtojail_02-h_2016ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL

“[Steve] James has always been a filmmaker fascinated by community, and ABACUS doubles as an engrossing glimpse inside cloistered Chinatown customs and an immigrant population looking out for one another because it’s infuriatingly obvious that nobody else will.” – Sean Burns, Boston Reel

 

 

 

kill-switchKILL SWITCH

“Watching Tim Smit’s KILL SWITCH is a lot like watching over your friend’s shoulder as he plays a first-person shooter.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine

 

 

 

17471-1-1100THE HERO

“…THE HERO strains too hard for profundity at times but Elliott’s pitch-perfect performance is one for the books.” – Sean Burns, Boston Reel

“Nevertheless, even if [Brett] Haley is treading through the work of others—and even himself, given some surface similarities to his superior I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS —he’s doing so with great empathy and affection for his characters.” – Brett Michel, Improper Bostonian