Reviews

Rough Draft Atlanta:

Honey Don’t! should work, but just doesn’t hit the mark
With Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee reinterprets a classic for the digital age
The horror of community apathy comes through in Weapons
Sorry, Baby and the nonlinear road to healing
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs tonight delves into colonialist mentality through the eyes of a child
The meaning of life in The Life of Chuck
Ballerina and the empty task of fighting like a girl
On Swift Horses and the melodrama of awakening
Bonjour Tristesse: who do I want to be when I grow up?
The Amateur is asleep at the wheel
Parade is just as relevant as ever
Black Bag' is a sleek, sexy take on marital espionage
The haunting perspective of Presence
Wolf Man has no bark and no bite
Anora is the anti Pretty Woman for a new generation
Smile 2 and the darker side of stardom
My Old Ass: You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone
Aaron Pierre is a force to be reckoned with in Rebel Ridge
The Music Man shines with stellar choreography, great performances
Sing Sing explores the strength it takes to be human
Fly Me to the Moon can’t deliver on the promise of screwball romance
Hit Man and finding the truth in the con
Furiosa and hope in the time of the apocalypse
In Challengers, life is a competition and tennis is sex
The Greatest Hits buckles under the weight of its magical realism
In Immaculate, Sydney Sweeney snarls and screams her way to control
Dune: Part Two and the simultaneous rise and fall of a hero
Argylle becomes the very thing it’s making fun of
Priscilla and the teenage dream that never was
Foe can’t capitalize on its eerie atmosphere
The style is the substance in Asteroid City