8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
- Movies
- May 11, 2025
Is this the cure for male loneliness?
‘Friendship’
Tim Robinson plays Craig, a solitary and uncomfortable suburban father who develops an obsession with the genius of Austin effort (Paul Rudd) in this comedy directed by Andrew Deyoung.
From our review:
Robinson’s yield … Injects Craig with a quality more similar to a tictac erratically. Not having developed an inner life, it is all vibes and reaction: shame or provocation could make it move, exploit, or some third unimaginable thing. That results, sometimes, in a film that seems to be turning its wheels, it does not go anywhere during long sections, with Craig simply exasperated. However, that same energy maintains the observable film the delay stretches.
In theaters. Read the complete review.
Choice of critic
A unique work in life.
‘Trapped by the tides’
Directed by Jia Zhangke, this radiant drama follows a woman and her lover over decades as China quickly changes around her.
From our review:
As emotionally effective as it is formally brilliant, it is based on a material treasure, both fiction and non -fiction, which jia and filming in 2001 while working in another film. They continued to document a vertiginous China, a heroic project that has finally resulted in “trapped by the tides”, a Force tour is both a portrait that affects a village in flow and moving or IRS winning testament.
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A little too dente.
‘None’
After his mother’s death, Joe (Vince Vaughn) decides to honor his memory by opening a restaurant attended by Italian Grandmothers in this comedy directed by Stephen Chbosky.
From our review:
Córny and cloying, “No as” struggle to obtain energy in a plot that each obstacle (the increasing finances, the inspection of failed buildings, the disaster of the opening night, the desperate folds by critical ation) is a comfortable prediction. The true drag of the film, thought, is a main character without identity beyond the depressing house of his mother and without personality beyond nostalgia.
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A murderous harvest that does not produce much.
‘Clown in a corn field’
The murderous clowns that are dressed as the pet of the local company, source, terrorize a small agricultural community in this slasher directed by Eli Craig.
From our review:
By adapting Adam Cesare’s novel, Carter Blanchard and Craig have created a script that focuses more on spooky (and twisted) bushes than in providing responses to the motivations of the Kill. A gay romance provides a sweet although underdeveloped. A mediocre horror movie obtains points if the main villain is a true bugaboo. But the Fredments, unfortunately, seem to post a Pennywise, art the clown and other terror, more scary horror shots.
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A trip full of potholes stabilized by charisma.
‘Fight or flight’
On a Bangkok trip to San Francisco, an alcoholic mercenary (Josh Hartnett) tries to knock down a murderer with the help of a hostera (Charithra Chandran) in this action film directed by James Madigan.
From our review:
The relaxed chemistry of Hartnett and Chandran establishes the turbulent tonal changes, adding a blow that lacks the choreographed trembling action. Hartnett and Chandran are so good together, Madigan’s last second second configuration for a possible sequel does not sound like a bad idea.
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She is poorly paid, the movie is over.
‘Lilly’
This biographical film directed by Rachel Feldman focuses on Lilly Ledbetter (Patricia Clarkson), the payment activist equal to her company for gender discrimination.
From our review:
Distracting Pop-Music needle falls and Hammy’s performances give “Lilly” the feeling of a movie for life. When the story jumps towards the 2000s, changing black and white in color, the film accelerates through the case of the initial court of Ledbetter and positions it as a celebrity.
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This adaptation is a tragedy.
‘Juliet & Romeo’
The crossed lovers of the stars sing and use contemporary snake in this reinvention of Shakespeare’s tragedy by the director of writer Timothy Scott Bogart and his brother composer, Evan Kidd Bogart.
From our review:
The Bogots are children of Neil Bogart, the successful record executive that empowers Kiss and Donna Summer in the day. Seeing this film to a large extent (which seems to meet all its aspirations with a completely horta end), so sometimes it reminded the children Sardonic Steely Dan Tune Biz. “
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A adolescent sexual comedy that focuses on the previous game.
‘Summer of 69’
To earn his crush, an uncomfortable teenager named Abby (Sam Morelos) hires a stripper (Chloe Fineman) to teach him about sex in this comedy directed by Jillian Bell.
From our review:
In his debut in the direction of the direction, Bell evokes a mood of gentle cuts of suitcases with sincerity. There is a visit to the vibrators store and a joke in which Abby Malinter pre -the nature of sexual acts of hilling. But for the most part, the film is free of loose cuts and in endemic bathroom of its kind.
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Compiled by Kellina Moore.
