DEADPOOL 2
“DEADPOOL 2 is as fun as I could have hoped it would be.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 05/18/2018
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BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 05/11/2018
LIFE OF THE PARTY
“Unlike previous comedies from McCarthy and Falcone, LIFE OF THE PARTY does contain enough jokes to get some kind of response from viewers.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“It’s no masterwork, obviously, but what the film does achieve is a memorable differentiation from its imitative origins.” – Greg Vellante, Spectrum Culture
“…an uneven mess, but for a Melissa McCarthy vehicle it’s a vast improvement over most of her previous movies.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
“The blend of artistry and genre is breezy and dense at the same time, a film worth enjoying for its surface charms and studied for its deeply personal reflections on intimacy.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
LU OVER THE WALL
“Nobody does drugs in LU OVER THE WALL, but watching it you get the sense that everyone responsible for making it might have.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 04/27/2018
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
“…as much a fantastic amusement park ride as a cinematic experience, with an engaging cast doing an incredible job of not getting lost in the proceedings.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“Packed to the brim with familiar Marvel flaws but so earnest in it’s tonal dissonance, AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR is a remarkable, sometimes frustrating, and endlessly entertaining behemoth of an undertaking, and it’s one that will require an immediate revisit.” – Allyson Johnson, The Young Folks
“AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR is neither a classic or one of the best Marvel movies we’ve seen, but it’s a good, solid flick that gets the job done overall.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“Though I am not usually too shy about spoilers, I do think INFINITY WAR particularly benefits from audience ignorance, so I’ll leave it here. The film is engaging, entertaining, and dark enough for me to get a kick out of the reveling evil on screen.” – Deirdre Crimmins, Film Thrills
GODARD MON AMOUR
“What to make of this flick? Paradoxical, self-abnegating, smacking of both sullied biography and ironic farce, GODARD MON AMOUR is, in a way, the perfect biopic of its titular subject.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston
“This is a work that is constantly in pursuit of such purpose. It periodically finds what it’s looking for, yet consistently loses itself along the way.” – Greg Vellante, Spectrum Culture
“Someday, another director might try their hand at the Sisyphean task of figuring out the honest to goodness truth of the man. Until that day, we have Hazanavicius and the well-intended failure of GODARD MON AMOUR.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
GHOST STORIES
“This isn’t a bait and switch—more just a switch.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
“Overall, what you get from GHOST STORIES is a satisfying cinematic experience.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 04/20/2018
SUPER TROOPERS 2
“90 whole minutes of unfunny things.” – Greg Vellante, Edge Boston
” Sticking with the spirit of the first movie means ducking social commentary—or any kind of commentary, really, apart from commentary on the drastic lengths men will go to for their own amusement.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine
GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI
“Some of the footage feels revelatory and some of it just seems random.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery
BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 04/06/2018
A QUIET PLACE
“Recent attempts at what might be called “smart horror,” like GET OUT and COLOSSAL, didn’t offer up documentary reality but they did have an internal logic for the world the films created. A QUIET PLACE fails this basic test.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“In spite of some significant issues, A QUIET PLACE will likely please most of the people who see it.” – Jaskee Hickman, Cinematic Essential
“Tension defines this clever and well-crafted creature feature, and director John Krasinski has found a comfortable niche where his efforts as a director truly shine…” – Greg Vellante, Spectrum Culture
CHAPPAQUIDDICK
“CHAPPAQUIDDICK is no hatchet job. Instead, it offers a serious meditation on the uses and abuses of power, a story that is timely in any era.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies
“What we might hope for from a film bold enough to call itself CHAPPAQUIDDICK is a payoff equal to the promise of that charged name. We get a tingle here and there, but no real jolt from this effort.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston