Movie Review: MAGPIE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/25/2024
MAGPIE movie poster | ©2024 Shout! Sudios

Rating: R Stars: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie Writer: Tom Bateman, based on an original idea by Daisy Ridley Director: Sam Yates Distributor: Shout! Studios Release Date: October 25, 2024 As MAGPIE begins, Anette (Daisy Ridley) is videotaping her little daughter Matilda’s (Hiba Ahmed) audition for a big-budget movie. Great news: Matilda gets the part. Momentarily, Matilda, Anette and Anette’s husband/Matilda’s dad Ben (Shazad Latif) couldn’t be happier. The family, plus baby boy Lucas, lives in a spacious modern house in the English countryside. Ben is a successful author. Anette would […]Read On »


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Movie Review: AMBER ALERT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/27/2024
AMBER ALERT movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Tyler James Williams, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Kurt Oberhaus, Katie McClellan, Kevin Dunn, Ducky Cash Writers: Kerry Bellesa & Joshua Oram Director: Kerry Bellesa Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: September 27, 2024 (theatrical, VOD) An Amber Alert is a law enforcement notification to the public about an abducted or missing child (the alert got its name from 1996 kidnap/murder victim Amber Hagerman). AMBER ALERT (the new release, not to be confused with earlier films that share the title) uses this notification as a springboard for a plot that is improbable but nevertheless entertaining. We start out in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RED ROOMS (LES CHAMBRES ROUGES)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/06/2024
RED ROOMS (LES CHAMBRES ROUGES) movie poster | ©2024 Utopia

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Elisabeth Locas, Natalie Tannous, Pierre Chagnon, Guy Thauvette, Frédérick De Grandpré, Marie-Gabrielle Ménard, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos Writer: Pascal Plante Director: Pascal Plante Distributor: Utopia Release Date: September 6, 2024 Directed and written by Pascal Plante, RED ROOMS (LES CHAMBRES ROUGES) contains multiple mysteries. Who is the killer, will the right person be convicted of the crime, and why is Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) so fixated on the case? We will learn that Kelly-Anne is a high-end model and online poker whiz. We meet her as she makes her way through pre-dawn Montreal to a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CRESCENT CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/16/2024
CRESCENT CITY movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Terrence Howard, Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan, Alec Baldwin, Reema Sampat, Madonna Akhtar Writer: Rich Ronat Director: RJ Collins Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: August 16, 2024 (theatrical, digital, VOD) The title of CRESCENT CITY turns out to be like that of CHINATOWN – it’s not where the action is set, just the site of a significant event in the lives of several characters. (The film has nothing to do with either New Orleans or the fantasy book series with that name.) Instead, we are mostly in Little Rock, AR, where a serial killer is leaving mannequin heads next […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TRAP

By CARL CORTEZ 08/03/2024
TRAP movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill Writer-Director: M. Night Shyamalan Distributor: Warner Bros. Ever since writer-director M. Night Shyamalan broke out with his classic 1999 thriller THE SIXTH SENSE, he’s struggled to maintain the simplistic beauty of that Bruce Willis starrer. His subsequent films either leaned too heavy into a last act twist (that worked depending on the viewer – UNBREAKABLE, SIGNS) or were so pretentious the film was virtually unwatchable (THE HAPPENING anyone). Thankfully, the last decade has brought Shyamalan back to earth and has focused him. THE VISIT took him out […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLACKWATER LANE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/21/2024
BLACKWATER LANE movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Minka Kelly, Maggie Grace, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Calton, Natalie Simpson, Judah Cousin, Kris Johnson Writer: Elizabeth Fowler, based on the novel THE BREAKDOWN by B.A. Paris Director: Jeff Celentano Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: June 21, 2024 (theatrical/VOD) Based on B.A. Paris’s novel THE BREAKDOWN, BLACKWATER LANE has the odd distinction of being a thriller where viewers – at least, those acquainted with this subgenre – can guess what’s happening almost from the start. We begin with narration by Cass Anderson (Minka Kelly) about “what happened.” Cass and her husband Matthew (Dermot Mulroney) are half-American/half-English. They grew up […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DAMAGED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/12/2024
DAMAGED movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi, Laura Haddock, John Hannah, Kate Dickey, Brian McCardie Writers: Koji Steven Sakai, Gianni Capaldi, Paul Aniello, story by Paul Aniello & Gianni Capaldi Director: Terry McDonough Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: April 12, 2024 The notion of Samuel L. Jackson as a Chicago homicide detective in Edinburgh, Scotland is full of potential. DAMAGED doesn’t play with those possibilities in the way we might expect. Still, as a serial killer thriller, it’s decently intriguing until it becomes unglued in the third act. When a young woman is followed home from her synagogue […]Read On »


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Movie Review: EILEEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/01/2023
EILEEN movie poster | ©2023 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Sam Nivola, Marin Ireland, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Tonya Patano Writers: Luke Goebel & Ottessa Moshfegh, based on the novel by Ottessa Moshfegh Director: William Oldroyd Distributor: Neon Release Date: December 1, 2023 EILEEN is a thriller that threatens explosions at every turn. However, when things finally go crazy, it’s in a way that has been set up well, but that we don’t see coming. We’re in a working-class town in mid-1960s Massachusetts. Our title character, Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie), is a young woman who spends her days doing clerical work at […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BARBER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/30/2023
BARBER movie poster | ©2023 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Aiden Gillen, Aisling Kearns, Gary Lydon, Helen Behan, Deirdre Donnelly, Liam Carney, Irma Mali, Steve Wall Writers: Fiona Bergin & Fintan Connolly Director: Fintan Connolly Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: September 22, 2023 BARBER is in many ways solidly in the tradition of the private eye thriller. However, there are several changes from convention. For one, we’re in present-day Dublin, somewhere in COVID times; lockdown is over, but nobody is sure when or wear to wear masks, when to shake hands. And nobody carries a gun. Our hero, Valentine Barber (Aiden Gillen), is a low-rent private […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DOUBLE LIFE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/13/2023
DOUBLE LIFE movie poster | ©2023 Paramount

Rating: R Stars: Javicia Leslie, Pascale Hutton, Vincent Gale, Niall Matter, Carmen Moore, John Cassini, Kaaren De Zilva, Aaron Douglas Writers: Mike Hurst and Chris Sivertson, story by Mike Hurst Director: Martin Wood Distributor: Paramount Global Content Distribution Release Date: May 5, 2023 There’s a perfectly good concept propelling DOUBLE LIFE, and it is handsomely made. However, it plays out like either the pilot for a broadcast TV detective series like BIG SKY, with which it shares some plot elements, or else a procedural episode that focuses on the guest characters. Jo (Javicia Leslie) manages a high-end big-city bar frequented […]Read On »


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