BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 5/12/2023

THE MOTHER

Viewers wanting to share The Mother with their own mothers might want to first ask Mom about her tolerance for movies with a high body count and not a lot of narrative sense. – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

EVERYTHING WENT FINE

Everything Went Fine doesn’t express a particular point of view about being a family member’s personal Jack Kevorkian, but instead focuses on the tedium of planning, the bureaucracy, and the legal snafus that follow. – David Riedel, Chicago Reader

BLACKBERRY

“Baruchel looks like he’s wearing a grey fright wig left over from someone dressing up as an old man for Halloween.”John Black, Cinekong Reviews

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 5/5/2023

YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER

“Filmmakers Mark Slutsky and Sarah Watts deliver a poised, and poignant, love story between two teenage girls.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network

 

You Can Live Forever will play well with LGBTQ+ viewers, while also addressing matters that go beyond sexual orientation. Anyone who recalls the complicated path of young, first love should be able to relate.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 delivers on an emotional and action-packed story! Some aspects of the movie are a bit messy but the good out way the bad.” – Duane Miller, Cinemania World Podcast

 

“If you let Chris Pratt outshine that’s got to be a slap in the face.” – Byron McNeal, On The Reel On Tumblr

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

What’s Love Got To Do With It? is one of those romantic comedies where we meet the two people destined to be together at the beginning, but it takes the two of them the whole movie to figure it out. Fortunately, there’s enough that’s fresh and original here to make it work.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

THE FORGER

“Perhaps that’s the real message of The Forger. It almost didn’t matter what you did under the genocidal regime. Surviving was as much a matter of luck and chance as it was possessing any particular skills or taking any deliberate actions.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 4/28/2023

SISU

“Were you dissatisfied by the John Wick movies because there wasn’t enough action? Did you feel Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds would have been improved by more Nazis being killed? Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander feels your pain and offers up Sisu.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

THE ARTIFICE GIRL

The Artifice Girl is the sort of small, intelligent science fiction film that proves the genre is capable of much more than the special effects extravaganzas churned out by Hollywood.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

POLITE SOCIETY

“Nida Manzoor’s first feature film, Polite Society, gives a glimpse at the messaging the incumbent Gen Z is being raised on: Your dreams are absurd, you’re a ninny for following them, and please clean up the mess you made when you kicked your sister through her bedroom door.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine