BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 10/27/2023

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

“In this deeply personal work, Martin Scorsese takes an unflinching look at our complicity in the ravages of white supremacy, and brings us face to face with the tainted history of the American origin story and the evil embedded with what’s good in the ambitious American character.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices

SUITABLE FLESH

Suitable Flesh checks the boxes for those looking for the weird horror trifecta of gore, sex, and dark wit.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 10/20/2023

THE PERSIAN VERSION

“The shocks come as quickly as the laughs as the film unspools a tale of life in a vastly different culture, and shows what it costs to chart one’s own course, especially as a woman in a deeply patriarchal, and deeply religious, society.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network

DEATH ATHLETIC: A DISSIDENT ARCHITECTURE

Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture is an extremely one-sided documentary – more of a polemic, really – that will leave viewers cheering, angry or, if they’re not heavily invested in the national argument over guns, frightened.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 10/13/2023

THE ROAD DANCE

The Road Dance is a stirring romance/melodrama, based on a true story, and packs an emotional punch. Based on the 2002 novel by John MacKay, the film falls neatly into familiar narrative territory, but feels alive and fully-inhabited in the hands of writer/director Richie Adams.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices

THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE

The Teachers’ Lounge pops like a kernel on a hot stove, and the explosion will make you question your every move in these fraught times.” – Joyce Kulhawik, Joyce’s Choices

 

 

 

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 10/6/2023

TOTALLY KILLER

“It manages to be both a scary serial-killer-on-the-loose movie and a high school comedy. It’s a difficult balancing act that they pull off with seeming ease.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

EISMAYER

Eismayer joins other compelling gay military dramas we’ve seen lately, and ranks among the best of the genre.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network

 

 

MIRANDA’S VICTIM

“Nothing in Miranda’s Victim suggests that informing criminal defendants of their rights is a bad thing. What it does do is almost as revolutionary: it tells the story of Trish Weir, the then-18-year-old whom he attacked.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

FOE

Foe turns out to have very little to do with the scant science fiction trappings of the story. Instead, it’s about how difficult it is for two married people to stay together.”– Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies