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Movie Review: THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/03/2025
THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN movie poster | ©2025 Relativity

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Madison Wolfe, Brec Bassinger, Ali Larter, Sean Astin, Skai Jackson, Gavin Warren, Addison Riecke, Noah Lomax, Darrius Thomas, Deborah Ann Woll Writers: Warren Skeels & Sharon Y. Cobb Director: Warren Skeels Distributor: Relativity Media Release Date: December 13, 2024 Because it is seen primarily from the viewpoint of high school student Annie (Madison Wolfe), and because of some narrative conventions, THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN has a YA flavor to it. Still, director Warren Skeels and his co-writer Sharon Y. Cobb deliver a relatively suspenseful thriller. An onscreen title at the start tells us that THE […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE DAMNED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE DAMNED movie poster | ©2025 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Lewis Gribben, Francis Magee, Mícheál Óg Lane Writer: Jamie Hannigan, story by Thordur Palsson Director: Thordur Palsson Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: January 3, 2025 THE DAMNED is period Scandinavian folk horror that succeeds in being eerie and suspenseful throughout, right up until its “Wait, what?” last scene. We are at a remote fishing station in nineteenth-century Iceland (THE DAMNED was shot in Iceland and Ireland). Eva (Odessa Young) talks about the hardship here, although Magnus, her late husband, said this was a place of opportunity. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NOSFERATU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/25/2024
NOSFERATU movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Willem Dafoe, Simon McBurney Writer: Robert Eggers, based on the screenplay for NOSFERATU by Henrik Galeen and the novel DRACULA by Bram Stoker Director: Robert Eggers Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: December 25, 2024 “Nosferatu” is another word for “vampire.” It is also the title of the still-influential 1922 silent German horror film, directed by F.W. Murnau and scripted by Henrik Galeen, based on Bram Stoker’s novel DRACULA. Werner Herzog directed a 1979 adaptation, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, and last year, there was another version, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE ORDER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/06/2024
THE ORDER movie poster | ©2024 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan, Marc Maron, Alison Oliver Writer: Zach Baylin, based on the book THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD by Kevin Flynn & Gary Gerhardt Director: Justin Kurzel Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: December 6, 2024 THE ORDER begins by informing us that it is “based on true events.” Indeed, these events have been written about at length, and dramatized several times before. This film is specifically based on the book THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. A splinter group of the Aryan Nations, the Order was a white supremacist gang […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NIGHTBITCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
NIGHTBITCH movie poster | ©2024 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden, Jessica Harper Writer: Marielle Heller, based on the novel by Rachel Yoder Director: Marielle Heller Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: December 6, 2024 NIGHTBITCH is one of those movies that is very hard to quantify. It is so astute and acute on some levels, while appearing to think it’s being universal yet in actuality so niche on others, that one can’t either wholly praise or dismiss it. Amy Adams plays an upper-middle-class mom, referred to in the credits as “Mother” (one of those would-be universal touches), who […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WEREWOLVES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
WEREWOLVES movie poster | ©2024 Briarcliff Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera, Kamdynn Gary, James Michael Cummings, Lydia Styslinger, Lou Diamond Phillips, James Kyson Writer: Matthew Kennedy Director: Steven C. Miller Distributor: Briarcliff Entertainment Release Date: December 6, 2024 In WEREWOLVES, the starting premise is that, a year ago, a supermoon triggered a global event in which over a billion people turned into werewolves for a night. Now it’s the day before another supermoon. People who have turned and survived the first event will turn again, and it’s unknown who else will be susceptible. From dusk until dawn, there is an emergency curfew. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE RETURN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE RETURN movie poster | ©2024 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzani, Claudio Santamaria, Angela Molina Writers: John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini, based on THE ODYSSEY by Homer Director: Uberto Pasolini Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: December 6, 2024 THE RETURN is a dramatization of part of one of the oldest known narratives in Western culture, THE ODYSSEY by Homer, written in the eighth or seventh century BC (per Wikipedia). This is the story of Odysseus (played here by Ralph Fiennes), King of Ithaca, and his ten-year journey back home after being on the winning side of the Trojan War, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WICKED: PART 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/22/2024
WICKED - PART 1 | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande-Butera, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Dinklage (voice) Writers: Winnie Holzman and Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox, based on the stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire Director: Jon M. Chu Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: November 22, 2024 While it can’t hurt, it turns out that it’s not really necessary to be familiar with either L. Frank Baum’s 1900 fantasy classic THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, or its famous 1939 film musical adaptation, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RED ONE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/15/2024
RED ONE movie poster | ©2024 MGM / Amazon Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Kiernan Shipka, Wesley Kimmel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Nick Kroll Writer: Chris Morgan, story by Hiram Garcia Director: Jake Kasdan Distributor: MGM/Amazon Studios Release Date: November 15, 2024 The premise of RED ONE contains all sorts of intriguing Northern and Eastern European folklore: not only Santa Claus, but some darker figures as well. This could have made a great Rankin-Bass special, either with conventional animation or RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER-style puppetry, or even a live-action fantasy, a la the NARNIA films. However, RED ONE, directed by […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/08/2024
THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: PG Stars: Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright, Beatrice Schneider, Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez, Matthew Lamb, Essek Moore, Kirk B.R. Woller, Ewan Mathys Wood, Mason Nelligan, Kynlee Heiman, Lauren Graham Writers: Ryan Swanson and Platte F. Clark & Darin McDaniel, based on the novel by Barbara Robinson Director: Dallas Jenkins Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: November 8, 2024 “The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world.” So begins THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER, based on Barbara Robinson’s 1971 book, which was previously adapted as a 1983 telefilm. Narrated by the adult Beth (Lauren Graham), THE BEST […]Read On »


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