40 Dates and 40 Nights Review: A Rom-Com Bet With Modest Returns
Forty consecutive dates should make a city feel crowded; here, Houston keeps shrinking around one man. Andy Delaney’s 40 Dates...
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Toad venom, cash, and a borrowed motorbike make a sharper noir hook than any suitcase full of diamonds. Wetiko, written and directed by Kerry Mondragon, takes that strange setup and rides it straight into the jungle, where enlightenment looks suspiciously like a business model with better lighting. Aapo (Juan Daniel García Treviño) works in his family’s pet store, surrounded by bright fish tanks, frogs, and the practical rules his mother has built around selling hallucinogenic bufo toads. Luz (Dalia Xiuhcoatl) walks in asking for them on behalf of the Empire of Love, a spiritual community deep in the Mayan jungle....

Protocol does most of the talking in A Royal Setting, which is a problem for a romance built around people who are meant to feel trapped by it. The Hallmark royal fantasy has returned to its familiar kingdom: a tiny European monarchy, a prince with reformist instincts, a commoner whose professional skill somehow doubles as emotional liberation, and a palace full of people saying “tradition” with the solemnity of a constitutional crisis. Ruby Robinson arrives from New York with a reputation grand enough to land her on the cover of Gemologist Quarterly. Prince Luca of Gullion hires her to restore...

Reunion is the least interesting word in Bao Nguyen’s BTS: The Return, which is good news for a film that could have coasted on the calendar. BTS have finished South Korea’s mandatory military service, ARMY has waited, Netflix has the cameras ready, and the comeback machine is humming. That version of the documentary would have written itself, then thanked everyone for their patience. Nguyen finds a better story. RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook do reunite, but the film is less concerned with the fact of their return than with the awkward labor of becoming a group...

Emma Boccanfuso’s camera treats Sueli’s home as shelter, theater, wound, and warning. Saudades Eternas stays in Chapéu Mangueira, a Rio favela close enough to Copacabana for geography to sound almost obscene, since the film keeps that postcard Brazil outside its field of vision. The beach exists nearby, but Boccanfuso is concerned with the brick rooms where a family waits, argues, laughs, repairs walls, opens a bar, listens for gunfire, and learns the terrible discipline of staying indoors. This is not a documentary that explains a favela from above. It does not arrive with maps, experts, policy language, or a clean...

Billy Idol’s great trick was making danger look like a haircut. The sneer, the leather, the peroxide spikes, the half-lidded stare at the MTV camera: all of it turned William Broad into a pop-punk image that could sell rebellion in three-minute bursts. Jonas Åkerlund’s Billy Idol Should Be Dead understands the power of that image, then spends nearly two hours trying to find the person who had to keep wearing it. The film traces Idol from late-1970s British punk into Generation X, then through the American solo run that made him one of MTV’s defining faces. “Dancing With Myself,” “White...

Chaiken cuts the Lunachicks like a band that never learned to enter a room quietly. The drums arrive first, then the old stage footage, then the sense that the frame itself has been kicked open by someone in ripped tights and a grin sharp enough to draw blood. Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks does what the strongest music documentaries do: it makes the archive feel unstable, alive, still leaking heat. Written and directed by Ilya Chaiken, the film traces the New York punk band from teenage friendship through underground cult status, touring exhaustion, internal fractures, and a 2021...
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Read moreToad venom, cash, and a borrowed motorbike make a sharper noir hook than any suitcase full of diamonds. Wetiko, written and directed by Kerry Mondragon, takes that strange setup and...
Protocol does most of the talking in A Royal Setting, which is a problem for a romance built around people who are meant to feel trapped by it. The Hallmark...
Reunion is the least interesting word in Bao Nguyen’s BTS: The Return, which is good news for a film that could have coasted on the calendar. BTS have finished South...
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