BARBIE
“Barbie’s about to confront real life, feet on the ground…until Greta and co-writer/husband Noah Baumbach turn into Chatty Cathy (also created by Ms. Handler) and kill the momentum by scripting the elaborate details of a metaphysical portal to the real world, how to get there, all the gadgets on the journey and why weird Barbie is weird.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices
“The biggest message that we all have to find our own way.” – Byron McNeal, On The Reel On Tumblr
“The movie revels in the history of Barbie, from the related dolls that didn’t quite take off (including one that got pregnant), to the notion that the doll presents both an impossible physical ideal and yet also allowed the children playing with Barbies to imagine endless possibilities not only for her but for themselves.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
OPPENHEIMER
“Nolan has not only crafted one of the best films of year. He has made one that will be watched and discussed long after much of its competition has been forgotten.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“Christopher Nolan has orchestrated a blazing field of talent around a detailed, masterfully edited, multi-faceted plot with a central core: the making of the bomb and its fallout, globally and personally for the genius at the helm: J. Robert Oppenheimer.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices
“Everyone who has a political grudge or is screaming at someone else on social media should watch Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat, and they might realize a great deal of the country is protected and served by people not trying to ‘own’ or ‘destroy’ anyone else. Just the opposite: they want to help, to lend comfort.” – 
“…a veteran cast takes what could have been a sappy, formulaic affair and turns it into something that may not be classic, but certainly is classy.” – 
“It’s everything I want in a summer movie – Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is a ridiculously exciting entertainment.” – 
“By focusing on the interior life of only one of the two main characters, Tiger Within is more of a missed opportunity than a film rediscovery.” – 
“In a 53-minute segment of an anthology series, they might have gotten away with the audacity of their premise. At twice that length, this is at best a potential cult film for a limited audience.” – 
“Perhaps one of the few benefits of the pandemic is that this is the sort of movie unlikely to attract theater-going audiences anymore.” – 
MAKEUP
“…if all you’re looking for is big screen escapism, the awkwardly titled Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny certainly delivers.” – 
“The need to remember history is with us always; the need to remember this particular history is crucial, and urgent, to the exact moment in which we find ourselves.” – 
“Originally a project of Twentieth Century-Fox/Blue Sky (“Ice Age,” “Rio”) it was scrapped when Disney shut down Blue Sky upon acquisition of the movie studio. Now completed, it is easily one of the most original and entertaining animated stories in some time.” – 
THE STROLL