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Movie Review: THE PALE BLUE EYE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/06/2023
THE PALE BLUE EYE movie poster | ©2022 Netflix

Rating: R Stars: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtrey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall, Robert Duvall Writer: Scott Cooper, based on the novel by Louis Bayard Director: Scott Cooper Distributor: Netflix Release Date: December 23, 2022 (theatrical), January 6, 2023 (Netflix) Sometimes, historical fiction writers like to pique reader/viewer interest by adding a real person to the mix. In the case of THE PALE BLUE EYE, that individual is Edgar Allan Poe, played here by Harry Melling. While he has a large and crucial supporting role, the unquestionable lead is Christian […]Read On »


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Year in Review: TEN BEST FILMS OF 2022

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/05/2023
SOFT & QUIET movie poster | ©2022 Momentum Pictures/Blumhouse/Shudder

Just as with snowflakes, it’s doubtful that any two Ten Best Films of 2022 lists are alike. This one has movies on it that some people hate, and others that were in limited release, which consequently many people never heard of, much less saw. This represents the opinions of one reviewer, and not of Assignment X as a whole, so take it for what it’s worth. SOFT & QUIET – Writer/director Beth de Araujo made the year’s moment-by-moment most terrifying and viscerally effective film because it’s all so devastatingly convincing, even though it is fiction. It achieves everything it sets […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BABYLON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/23/2022
BABYLON Movie Poster | ©2022 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart Writer: Damien Chazelle Director: Damien Chazelle Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: December 23, 2022 BABYLON has some extraordinary spectacle at several intervals, and ends with a gorgeous montage chronicling the technological and narrative joys of movies, from their inception through the near-present. In between, over a three-hour-and-eight-minute running time, director/writer Damien Chazelle tries to cover too much and winds up stretching a lot of his ideas too thin. As BABYLON begins, it’s the Roaring ‘20s, and no beasts are louder than those prowling the upper reaches of Hollywood. Manny […]Read On »


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Movie Review: JOYRIDE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
JOYRIDE Movie Poster | ©2022 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Olivia Colman, Charlie Reid, Lochlann O’Mearáin Writer: Ailbhe Keogan Director: Emer Reynolds Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: December 23, 2022 JOYRIDE feels like the one of those amiable indie message movies that used to pop up all the time in the U.S. Even if (like this reviewer) one isn’t wild about said message, it’s gentle enough to be relatively inoffensive. On the plus side, JOYRIDE has the terrific Olivia Colman and the very adept young Charlie Reid as its leads, plus beautiful Irish countryside. It also has the virtue of never hitting its jokes too hard. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SCARE PACKAGE II: RAD CHAD’S REVENGE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SCARE PACKAGE 2: RAD CHAD'S REVENGE Poster | ©2022 Shudder

Rating: Not rated Stars: Jeremy King, Zoe Graham, Byron Brown, Rich Sommer, Kelli Maroney, Shakira Ja’nai Paye, Graham Skipper, Maria Olsen, Dustin Rhodes, Joe Bob Briggs Writers: Alexandra Barreto (“Welcome to the 90s”), John Karsko (“The Night He Came Back Again! Part VI”), Jed Shepherd (“Special Edition”), Aaron B. Koontz & Cameron Burns (“We’re So Dead”), Aaron B. Koontz & Cameron Burns (“Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge”), franchise created by Aaron B. Koontz & Cameron Burns Directors: Alexandra Barreto (“Welcome to the 90s”), Anthony Cousins (“The Night He Came Back Again! Part VI”), Jed Shepherd (“Special Edition”), Rachelle Wiggins […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WOMEN TALKING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WOMEN TALKING movie poster | ©2022 MGM/United Artists/Orion

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, Kira Guloien, Shayla Brown Writer: Sarah Polley, based on the book by Miriam Toews Director: Sarah Polley Distributor: MGM/United Artists/Orion Release Date: December 23, 2022 WOMEN TALKING feels like it is based on an actual incident. It is instead based on Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel of the same name, although the book is inspired by real-world events. Narrated by a young woman talking to her own child, WOMEN TALKING begins with the words, “The story ends before you were […]Read On »


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WILDCAT: Ecologist Samantha Zwicker on new Ocelot documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/21/2022
WILDCAT Key Art | ©2022 Amazon Studios

Premiering in theaters on Wednesday, December 21, and available on Prime Video on Friday, December 30, WILDCAT is a documentary about trying to teach a young ocelot to live and hunt in his original surroundings. The film, shot primarily in 2018 and 2019, chronicles the efforts of then-University of Washington biology student Samantha Zwicker, originally of Bainbridge Island, WA, and young British Army veteran Harry Turner to “rewild” one ocelot kitten, Khan, and then a second, Keanu, in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. (Coincidentally, the documentary comes from Amazon Studios.) Since WILDCAT wrapped, Zwicker has graduated with a PhD and greatly […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH | ©2022 Universal Pictures/Dreamworks

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, Wagner Moura, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Anthony Mendez Writers: Paul Fisher and Tommy Swerdlow, story by Tommy Swerdlow and Tom Wheeler Director: Joel Crawford; Co-Director: Januel P. Mercado Distributor: Universal/DreamWorks Release Date: December 21, 2022 As voiced by Antonio Banderas, the swashbuckling, Zorro-like feline Puss in Boots was originally introduced in 2005’s SHREK 2. Since then, Puss (with Banderas’s voice) has appeared in two more SHREK sequels and a bunch of shorts, and got his own PUSS IN BOOTS movie […]Read On »


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Movie Review: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/16/2022
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER | ©2022 20th Century Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Jemaine Clement, Jamie Flatters, Britain Dalton, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Bailey Bass, Filip Geljo, Duane Evans Jr. Writers: James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, story by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver & Josh Friedman & Shane Salerno, based on characters created by James Cameron Director: James Cameron Distributor: 20th Century Studios Release Date: December 16, 2022 James Cameron is one of the few filmmakers in the history of cinema who can be […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MINDCAGE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MINDCAGE Movie Poster | ©2022 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: John Malkovich, Martin Lawrence, Melissa Roxburgh, Jacob Grodnik, Aiden Turner, Neb Chupin, Rob Knepper Writer: Reggie Keyohara III Director: Mauro Borrelli Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: December 16, 2022 1991’s THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS may not have invented the premise of a newly-minted law enforcement person consulting with an incarcerated serial killer to solve a current serial killer case. However, that’s the film most associated with the format. It has often been imitated, but never bested. For quite a while, MINDCAGE seems to be going by the LAMBS playbook. It makes an astonishing ninety-degree turn, but the […]Read On »


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