NATIONAL ANTHEM
“Inspired by director Luke Gilford’s photo book about queer rodeos, this debut feature demonstrates an ease and authority with cinema with that marks Gilford out as a promising talent.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network
CORA BORA
“The Hannah Pearl Utt-directed Cora Bora – a vehicle for “Hacks” star Megan Stalter – takes the rom-com genre, spins it around, gives it a good queering, and leaves it inside-out.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network
GHOST PLANET
“For a low-budget production that was funded on Kickstarter, Ghost Planet is a lot better than it has any right to be. No one will confuse it with a big Hollywood production, but a decent if pulpy script combined with impressive visual effects make it an entertaining sci-fi outing.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“Murder Company is a serviceable war movie about a group of soldiers sent on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. It works much better as a genre entry than as a history lesson.” 
“Freydis and Gudrid is in English but that’s its only concession to viewers. It is a Viking opera shot in black and white, inspired by the Vinland sagas, two texts traced back to 13th century Iceland and set several centuries earlier.” 
“Co-producer Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn are somehow working at the same temperature, delivering their lines with congruent, naturalistic intensity, effortlessly leading us from text to subtext with a breath, a look, a phrase.” 
“A Family Affair is like donuts: colorful, sugary, filling but not something you’ll be thinking about tomorrow.” 
“Kinds of Kindness struck me as a nihilistic work, and a clever one at that. Clever but not good.” 
“Thelma is one of the most enjoyable movies of the summer with much to say about how the elderly and young adults are infantilized in this coddling culture.” 
“In many ways this movie was a Hail Mary, taking a beloved IP and garnish it with member berries!” 
“Big Boys is well-meaning film that will no doubt find its audience given how it addresses a teenager coming to a realization about his sexual identity.” 
“The film falls short of making memorable the struggle for power as Henry declines. Instead, Firebrand smolders rather than burns.” 
“By confronting the history of the Holocaust through the eyes of a father who survived and his American-born daughter, Treasure offers a different perspective.” 
“One needn’t be a member of Red Sox Nation or even a baseball fan to enjoy Reverse The Curse. It’s enough to have worked at a relationship between a parent and an adult child.” 
“…the film’s thesis is about not human connection but humans’ connection to art, how we benefit from the presence of art in our lives, and what lonely, repressed existences we’d be damned to lead without it.”