Benjamin Freed

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Losing it at the movies since 1983.

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  • For Your Eyes Only

    ★★

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • September 5

    ★★★★

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  • September 5

    September 5

    ★★★★

    The advantage of being a print journalist over broadcast—a form of media I've never really participated in—is that you usually have a moment to think. Tim Fehlbaum isn't breaking any new cinematic ground here, but he captures the raw, cool, and often chaotic nature of live TV in the most horrible of situations.

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★

    The cat’s escape from those asshole secretary birds is the greatest chase scene in years.

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  • Beau Is Afraid

    Beau Is Afraid

    ★★★★

    INT. A24 HOLIDAY PARTY — NIGHT

    A24's favorite directors are mingling at the indie darling studio's annual holiday bash. THE DANIELS, JOANNA HOGG, and ARI ASTER are sharing stories about their families.

    DANIEL KWAN
    My mom is cool.

    DANIEL SCHEINERT
    I love my mommy!

    JOANNA HOGG
    I have many memories of my mother. We share a multifaceted relationship that's varied over the decades. It hasn't always been easy, but it is complex.

    ARI ASTER
    So...yeah

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★½

    Satisfactory amounts of face-hugging and chest-bursting, with a couple of inventive scares. But also hard confirmation that reanimating legacy characters played by long-deceased actors isn’t just visually unappealing—it’s a narratively and intellectually lazy insult toward the audience.

    And just as J.J. Abrams' forays into Star Trek and Star Wars proved him to be more of a remix artist than original storyteller in science fiction, so too does Fede Alvarez reveal himself as an equivalent for horror. Alien: Romulus is less…