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Movie Reviews

Dan Webster and Nathan Weinbender give short movie reviews.

  • The End of Oak Street is a standard family-in-crisis movie with a fantastical dystopian conceit, Dan Webster says.
  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day proves that a superhero movie can have a heart at its center, Dan Webster says.
  • This weekend, the bizarre, brazenly stupid 2001 cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer returns to theaters. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a great excuse to see some brilliantly silly jokes and an all-star cast before they were stars.
  • You’ve probably never heard of the microbudget Burt, but Nathan Weinbender says this unassuming comedy about a musician and his estranged son is a buried treasure worth digging up. It’s now streaming on Kanopy.
  • Blue Heron tells the story of how one child’s emotional problems affects the other members of his family, Dan Webster says.
  • Rose of Nevada, now playing at the Magic Lantern Theatre, is a slow, dreamy meditation on time travel and maritime economies. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a challenging, heady film from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.
  • The Odyssey is less a depiction of the Homeric poem than it is a reflection of Christopher Nolan’s trademark themes, Dan Webster says.
  • 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.
  • The Invite is a powerful look at marriage that echoes one of the great works of American theater, Dan Webster says.
  • 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.