DIRECTOR’S CUT
“Director’s Cut – yes, the title is a play on words – is a film where you go in knowing most of the cast won’t survive, and wondering if it’s a set up for a horror franchise. Stranger things have happened.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
GODLESS
“Godless won’t change your mind about the issues it raises, but it will make you think.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
MAGPIE
“As thin as Ben is on the page, Latif’s performance makes him practically transparent. He starts as a scumbag and only grows scummier as the story movies along.” – John Black, Cinekong
MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK
“My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock is an unusual approach to the oeuvre of filmdom’s ‘Master Of Suspense.’ Some forty years after his death, it imagines him coming back and discussing his life and career from a modern perspective. It is audacious and it works.”– Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
VENOM: THE LAST DANCE
“Tom Hardy and director Kelly Marcel made a film that was joyless and cynical.” – Byron McNeal, On The Reel On Tumblr
HANGDOG
“In the end, Hangdog is just a shaggy dog story in search of a punchline.”– Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
CHILDREN OF THE PINES
“There will be a lot of horror films released prior to Halloween this month. Some of them may be worth seeing. Alas, Children Of The Pines isn’t one of them.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
THE GOLDMAN CASE
“The Goldman Case is a riveting courtroom drama from France, detailing a trial that caught national attention in a similar manner to the way that the O.J. Simpson trial did here.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
WOMAN OF THE HOUR
“Woman Of The Hour is a tight little true-crime story set against one of the cheesiest game shows on television; truth is stranger than fiction.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
THE APPRENTICE
“The climax of the movie takes place at Mar-a-Lago lit like a haunted castle as the now enfeebled Cohn confronts the monster he created but never saw coming.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices
“As a dramatization of Trump’s formative years, The Apprentice offers a fascinating glimpse of his evolution, foreshadowing the man who has dominated American politics for the last decade.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“Directed by Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider), it’s the supermarket tabloid version of the Trump story, focusing on his rise to the top of the New York real estate game in the 1970s and 1980s.” – John Black, Cinekong
JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX
“And if substituting dialogue for music is your plan, at least spread it thin or write original songs, it didn’t work for Moulin Rouge and it certainly didn’t work here.” – Byron McNeal, On The Reel On Tumblr
“Goebbels and the Führer is a disturbing film and is meant to be.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies