Daily Archives: February 19, 2025

Movie Review: An Oscar-nominated animated “Incredible Journey” from Latvia — “Flow”

“Flow” is a futuristic Franco-Latvian fantasy, an animated sci-fi version of Disney’s classic animal odyssey, “The Incredible Journey.” Gints Zilbalodis’ film, an Oscar nominee as Best Animated Feature and as Best International Feature, is a dialogue-free travelogue that follows a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Home Invaders show up with an Agenda — “Everyone Is Going to Die”

“Everyone is Going to Die” is a generic home invasion thriller that clumsily struggles with the #MeToo “message” grafted onto it. It opens with the usual “Funny Games/’The ‘Strangers’ franchise” franchise attack, serves up hints that this assault isn’t as … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: High End Horror ensues, because He’s Going to “Bring Her Back”

The director Philippou brothers behind “The Babadook” and “Talk to Me” landed Sally Hawkins for the lead in this chiller. A24 has it, and that’s almost all we need to know, right? May 30.

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Movie Review: Teachers Accuse, Debate and Judge a Mother and her Son named “Armand”

Something that happened at school is debated and “measures” are weighed and furiously argued and even experienced through interpretive dance in the challenging but slow feature filmmaking debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of the great actress Liv Ullmann. … Continue reading

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