BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 11/10/2023

ONCE WITHIN A TIME

“To be clear: there is a very good chance that you will hate this movie, or at least run out of patience for its aggressive strain of whimsy. But if you’re anywhere close to Reggio’s cockeyed wavelength– or just in the market of something you well and truly haven’t seen before– Once Within a Time could just as easily be your favorite movie of the year. In either event, its very existence is something to be celebrated.” – Oscar Goff, Boston Hassle

IRENA’S VOW

“The film is based on the heroic efforts of Irena Gut, a young, Polish woman, who hid Jews during World War II. In light of the terrorist attacks in Israel, Irena’s Vow is a highly relevant film.” – Randy Steinberg, Blast Magazine

 

 

THE MARVELS

“There is a lot of fun to be had in The Marvels despite the messy script and editing.” – Duane Miller, Cinemania World Podcast

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 10/27/2023

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

“In this deeply personal work, Martin Scorsese takes an unflinching look at our complicity in the ravages of white supremacy, and brings us face to face with the tainted history of the American origin story and the evil embedded with what’s good in the ambitious American character.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices

SUITABLE FLESH

Suitable Flesh checks the boxes for those looking for the weird horror trifecta of gore, sex, and dark wit.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 10/20/2023

THE PERSIAN VERSION

“The shocks come as quickly as the laughs as the film unspools a tale of life in a vastly different culture, and shows what it costs to chart one’s own course, especially as a woman in a deeply patriarchal, and deeply religious, society.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network

DEATH ATHLETIC: A DISSIDENT ARCHITECTURE

Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture is an extremely one-sided documentary – more of a polemic, really – that will leave viewers cheering, angry or, if they’re not heavily invested in the national argument over guns, frightened.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 10/13/2023

THE ROAD DANCE

The Road Dance is a stirring romance/melodrama, based on a true story, and packs an emotional punch. Based on the 2002 novel by John MacKay, the film falls neatly into familiar narrative territory, but feels alive and fully-inhabited in the hands of writer/director Richie Adams.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices

THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE

The Teachers’ Lounge pops like a kernel on a hot stove, and the explosion will make you question your every move in these fraught times.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices