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(The following mini-movie review is part of a movie event for 2024 where movies distributed by A24 are released in IMAX for once or twice a month. The second batch are Midsommar (June 20), Oasis: Supersonic (July 16) and Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (August 28)) A24 X IMAX presents: Oasis: Supersonic (2016) (Watched in IMAX on 07/16/2024) Rated: R, 2 hrs. 02 mins., ⭐⭐ 1/2 + The documentary about the 90s British rock band Oasis and their lead singers, songwriters and brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher is neatly crafted and stylish in editing and effects using never-before-seen archival footage, photos, concert recordings, music videos and sweeping visuals with audio recorded interviews. Though it's long and sometimes feels pretentious with how the members believe to be the best band despite having many issues surrounding their music career, at one point being called "The Bad Boys of Rock N' Roll" and accepting it. But the overall presentation is the saving grace of the movie.

New Movie Reviews-Longlegs (2024) (Watched in theaters on 07/14/2024) Rated: R, 1 hr. 41 mins., ⭐⭐ Director Osgood "Oz" Perkins has made an upsetting psychological/horror/mystery/thriller with uninteresting and upsetting characters, a troubling story and eh-ish camerawork, edits and make-up. The story, set in Oregon in the 1990s, follows FBI special agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) as she's assigned a series of murder cases since the 1970s from a serial killer going by the name of Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), having left birthday cards with cryptic messages for 9-year-old girls as their murders, and their parents, take place on the girls' birthday (specifically on the 14th of any given month and taking place 6 days before and after). And in working with her supervisor Agent Carter (Blair Underwood), Lee discovers that the messages are Satanic coding and in getting close to capturing Longlegs and how the families are killed by Longlegs, Lee finds out some personal connections to the

New Movie Reviews-Despicable Me 4 (2024) (Watched in IMAX on 07/09/2024) Rated: PG, 1 hr. 34 mins., ⭐⭐ 1/2 + or ⭐⭐⭐ Director Chris Renaud has made a neat and kind of fun sequel to the Despicable Me/Minions movies with fine and fun characters, a fine story and fun animation. The story follows Felonious Gru (Steve Carrell) as he's gone from being a supervillain to working for the Anti-Villain League, or AVL, to arrest his rival classmate Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrel) at a reunion at the Lycée Pas Bon, the School of Villainy, where Maxime wins an award presented by Principal Übelschlecht (Chris Renaud) and Maxime revealed his plan to be as invincible as a cockroach, which he already experimented on himself as a human-roach hybrid. But after being arrested by AVL, Maxime seeks revenge on Gru and his family: his wife Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig), his three daughters Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison Polan) and the new addition to the family, a baby boy named Gru

New Movie Reviews-Kinds of Kindness (2024) (Watched in theaters on 07/07/2024) Rated: R, 2 hrs. 44 min., ⭐⭐ 1/2 + or ⭐⭐ 1/2 ÷ Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made an interesting yet weird black comedy anthology with okay characters, odd set-up to the okay but strange stories and fine cinematography. The synopsis is a triptych of stories revolved around a loosely connected but questionable theme of "kindness", if any of such, and has 8 actors playing a different role in each: The first is of Robert Flecher (Jesse Plemons) who decides to go against a favor of his boss and lover Raymond (Willem Dafoe) to kill a man and having to lie to his wife Sarah (Hong Chau) about having children and soon befriends a woman named Rita (Emma Stone). The second is of police officer Daniel (Jesse Plemons) reuniting with his wife Liz (Emma Stone) who went missing at sea and stranded on an island. Yet Daniel is under suspicion that Liz is not his wife but someone who looks like her, frighting his best

New Movie Reviews-Horizon: An American Saga (2024) (Watched in theaters on 07/06/2024) (This is a review of Chapter 1, released in theaters June 28. Chapter 2 will be released on August 16) (Editor's Note: As of now, Chapter 2 is pulled from its release date and there's going to be two more movies after the sequel: Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. No release dates for them yet) Rated: R, 3 hrs. 01 min., ⭐⭐ Director Kevin Costner has made a pretty boring Western/drama with eh characters, a jumbled story and okay cinematography, sets, costumes and music. The story, or rather plots, set in Old American West in 1859 before the Civil War, follows two different stories happening within the same time. One involving American settlers having to travel from their previous settlement they named Horizon that was destroyed by the Apache tribe as it's their territory with one group going after the Natives while some of the American's are going off to war, and one involving a lone cowboy/horse trader

New Movie Reviews-A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) (Watched in IMAX on 07/02/2024) Rated: PG-13, 1 hr. 39 mins, ⭐⭐ 1/2 ÷ or ⭐⭐ 1/2 + Director Micheal Sarnoski has made an alright prequel to the Quiet Place movies, based on the characters created by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, with okay characters, an okay story and fine effects. The story, set in New York City, follows a former poet named Samira (or Sam) (Lupita Nyong'o) who's being treated in hospice care for cancer and owns a cat named Frodo. But while Reuben (Alex Wolff), the hospice nurse, takes patients to a marionette show, Sam wanted to go to Harlem to get pizza as Harlem was her home, growing up with her late father who was a pianist. But soon, as tanks, jets and helicopters travel through the city, a large meteor shower occurs with one of them landing in the city, bringing alien monsters attacking anything that makes loud noises. Sam is brought in the marionette theater for shelter by Henri (Djimon Hounsou) where Reuben also

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New Movie Reviews-Inside Out 2 (2024) (Watched twice in IMAX on 06/15/2024 and 06/23/2024, twice in 3D on 06/15/2024 and 06/23/2024, and twice in 2D on 06/30/2024) Rated: PG, 1 hr. 36 mins, ⭐⭐ 1/2 + or ⭐⭐⭐ Director Kelsey Man has made a decent but overwhelming sequel to the 2015 film with decent characters, a fine but overblown story and colorful animation. The story follows Riley Andersen (Kensington Tallman) becoming a teenager at 13 as the emotions in her head help guide her through life in Headquarters: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Disgust (Liza Lapira), Fear (Tony Hale) and Anger (Lewis Black). Overtime, Riley's gain new friends Grace (Grace Lu) and Bree (Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green) and aside from her Core Memories creating new islands that define Riley's personalities, beneath Headquarters is the Belief System where special memories grow beliefs that form Riely's Sense of Self: being a good person and staying with her friends. Being players of the hockey team