Movie Reviews
Spokane critics Dan Webster and Nathan Weinbender give short movie reviews for nationally released films as well as those appearing at local film festivals.
Latest Episodes
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Tuner is the story of a man with musical gifts and sensitive hearing who becomes a safe cracker. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a minor but entertaining neo-noir, and it’s now available as a digital rental.
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The Invite is a powerful look at marriage that echoes one of the great works of American theater, Dan Webster says.
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Livia Koh reads an original poem
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Maddie’s Secret, from comedian John Early, is a hard film to classify. It plays like an homage to a 1980s TV movie about a woman with an eating disorder, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s a surprisingly thoughtful and sometimes absurd study of an often-mocked genre.
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With his film Fiume o Morte! director Igor Berzinović uses a novel way of telling the history of a troubled city, Dan Webster says.
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The Love That Remains is an offbeat drama about nature, fate and an Icelandic family coming apart at the seams. It’s now streaming on the Criterion Channel, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s weird, compelling and, if you can get on its level, deeply rewarding.
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Who doesn’t like the Toy Story movies? The fifth installment of Pixar’s first franchise is now in theaters, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s an entertaining family adventure that mostly sticks to the same formula as its predecessors.
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The Netflix documentary "Queen of Chess" tells the story of the first woman chess grandmaster, Hungary’s Judit Polgár, Dan Webster says.
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The Marked Woman brings a Spanish sense of suspense to a subject taken straight from the headlines, Dan Webster says.
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Unlike most Hollywood horror film “Backrooms” preys simply on our inherent fears of the unknown – until it doesn’t, Dan Webster says.