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REVIEW: The Equalizer 3 (2023, dir. Antoine Fuqua)
The Equalizer 3 is an uneven final entry in the vigilante trilogy that suffers from a slow and sleepy pace that makes most of the action feel unengaging or subdued to a fault, but it is made less mundane by an ever-charismatic lead turn by Denzel Washington, and his charming on-screen chemistry with Dakota Fanning.
REVIEW: Cobweb (2023, dir. Samuel Bodin)
Certificate: 15 Running Time: 88 mins UK Distributor: Lionsgate WHO’S IN...
REVIEW: The Innocent (2022, dir. Louis Garrel)
Certificate: 15 Running Time: 99 mins UK Distributor: Met Film...
REVIEW: Vacation Friends 2 (2023, dir. Clay Tarver)
Vacation Friends 2 is an awful comedy sequel that contains no laughs, no heart, no charm (even from its main cast, who can’t replicate their easy chemistry from the previous film), and no reason for it to exist other than to give its filmmakers an excuse to go on a luxurious holiday while putting zero effort into making a product with substance.
REVIEW: You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah (2023, dir. Sammi Cohen)
Certificate: 12A Running Time: 103 mins UK Distributor: Netflix WHO’S IN...
REVIEW: Theater Camp (2023, dirs. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)
Theater Camp works fine enough as a humorous, though never fully solid, satire of the theatre world and its many extravagant, sometimes unbearably so, personalities.
REVIEW: The Dive (2023, dir. Maximilian Erlenwein)
The Dive has moments of light suspense and some fine performances, but a lack of intrigue for both its central concept and lead characters, as well as a consistently undercut sense of tension, leaves it hanging out to dry.
REVIEW: The Blackening (2023, dir. Tim Story)
The Blackening is an amusing Black-led parody of slasher movies that offers some thoughtful and funny commentary on Black culture, which a game cast helps steer out of some hit-or-miss gags and some formulaic trappings.
REVIEW: Strays (2023, dir. Josh Greenbaum)
Certificate: 15 Running Time: 93 mins UK Distributor: Universal Pictures...