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| Short Redhead Reel Reviews date from 1986 to present. This main page lists the five most recent film reviews. To view a complete list of all films reviewed this month, see Previous Reviews on the right. |
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 |
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White Bird |
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PG-13 2024 |
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[Opens Oct. 4 in theaters.] Wonderful acting and photography dominate Marc Forster's powerful, poignant, coming-of-age, riveting, heartbreaking, bittersweet, star-studded (Stuart McQuarrie, Patsy Ferran, Jem Matthews, Philip Lenkowsky, Jo Stone-Fewings, Olivia Ross), 2-hour film based on R.J. Palacio's 2019 novel in which a shy, Jewish student (Bryce Gheisar) attends the Yates Academy amidst the backdrop of his grandmother (Helen Mirren) recounting her survival as a teenager (Ariella Glaser) whose parents (Gillian Anderson and Max Blum) had her hiding out in a barn beginning in 1942 for more than a year in Nazi-occupied Paris during WWII with her polio-afflicted classmate (Orlando Schwerdt) who eventually is arrested by the Germans in 1944 and killed along with other Jewish prisoners during an escape.
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Almond and the Seahorse |
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NR 2024 |
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[Available Sept. 30 on various digital platforms.] Celyn Jones and Tom Stern's powerful, award-winning, realistic, well-acted, moving, thought-provoking, 2022, 96-minute film adapted from a 2008 play in which a cigarette-smoking, English archaeologist (Rebel Wilson) struggles to care for her husband (Celyn Jones) who suffers from regressive amnesia due to brain cancer while an architect (Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggles to care for her longtime, talented cellist partner (Trine Dyrholm) who is in a nursing home after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulting from a tragic car accident 15 years earlier and both couples with a TBI-specialist therapist (Meera Syal) as they try to cope and return to a sense of normality.
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Blood Star |
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NR 2024 |
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[Available Oct. 6 at Grimmfest and on Oct. 7 on various digital platforms in U.K.] When a psychopathic, crazed, abusive Texas sheriff (John Schwab) erroneously stops a streetwise, Latina nursing student (Britni Camacho) from California for allegedly speeding and throwing trash out the window that broke a light on his cop car in Lawrence Jacomelli's gripping, gritty, suspenseful, well-acted, tense, highly violent, 97-minute thriller, she finds herself in a terrible and dangerous predicament as the sheriff begins to toy with her in a vicious cat-and-mouse game.
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Case for Love ,A |
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NR 2024 |
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[Opens Oct. 1 in theaters.] Brian Ide's powerful, compelling, educational, thought-provoking, insightful, 101-minute documentary that is inspired by Bishop Michael B. Curry's Teachings, explores all types of love especially unselfish, unconditional love and how it can affect today's extreme violence and hatred, and it consists of archival photographs and film clips and interview snippets with director Brian Ide, Bishop Michael B. Curry of the Episcopal Church, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Rabbi Shoshana Conover at Temple Shalom of Chicago, retired Republican Senator John Danforth, sex trafficking survivor Sheila Simpkins, Muslim peace advocate Dr. Mohammed Elsanousi, radio and television talk show host Father Albert Cutié, meteorologist and Today Show host Al Roker, actor Sam Waterston, former NFL player Tim Shaw, Tim Shaw's parents John and Sharon Shaw, Thistle's Farms founder Rev. Becca Stevens, retired U.S. marine Jeffrey Lee, Jeffrey Lee's wife Jolynn Lee, adoptive parents Kevin and Deb Samples, Megan's friend Amanda East, widower Matthew Hoxworth, political activist Don Samuels, Northside Achievement Zone CEO Sondra Samuels, U.S. Navy Lt. Cdr. Kristina Landry, LGBTQ+ community member Brad Ayers, womanist theologian Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, Rabbinic scholar Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, cooking enthusiast Rosa Uy, Rosa's husband Warren Poole, refugee hosts Ruth and Kennedy Erdmann, foster parent Sam Pioske, Honduran refugee Edna Lemus, Curry family caretaker Josephine Robbins, Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, U.S. Congressman Rep. John Clyburn, and Baptist theologian Dr. Russell Moore.
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Chaperone |
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NR 2024 |
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[Screens Oct. 6 and 7 at the Mill Valley Film Festival and Oct. 10 at 8:15 p.m. at the Hawaii International Film Festival.] When a free-spirited 29-year-old movie theater employee (Mitzi Akaha), who lives in the home once owned by her grandmother in Hawaii, begins dating a charming, nonjudgmental, 18-year-old, track-star high school student (Laird Akeo) without disclosing her age in Zoë Eisenberg's engaging, down-to-earth, well-acted, realistic, 102-minute film, her immature, reckless behavior endangers her relationship with everyone around her.
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©2024 by Wendy Schadewald
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