Brent Leuthold
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![The upcoming Apple TV+ film Sharper stars Briana Middleton and Justice Smith.](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/4e/ReelViews-1-4ef17772.jpeg)
Film about con artists only fools itself
Streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, Feb. 17, the new psychological thriller Sharper is a movie about con artists that cons itself into thinking it’s sharper than it really is. […]
![Knock at the Cabin stars, from left, Dave Bautista, Abby Quinn, and Nikki Amuka-Bird.](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/09/ReelViews-09615c76.jpeg)
Thriller struggles to keep suspense
Due to the overwhelming popularity of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan has been pigeonholed as a director whose films always have a twist ending. While some of […]
![Alexander Skarsgård stars as a struggling novelist in the horror film "Infinity Pool."](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/ef/Infinity-effdbee2.jpeg)
‘Infinity Pool’ could put viewers in over heads
Infinity Pool, the new nightmare vision from Possessor writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, finds itself at the intersection of two thematic landscapes that have captured the zeitgeist as of late. Hit shows […]
![Storm Reid stars as a tech-savvy teen searching for her mother in Missing.](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/2c/ReelViews-2cb05a45.jpeg)
Familial bond missing from new thriller
A spiritual sequel, of sorts, to 2018’s Searching, the new thriller Missing stars Storm Reid as June Allen, a bright but troubled teen who has butted heads with her mom, Grace […]
![Finn Wolfhard and Julianne Moore star as son and mother in the new A24 film, When You Finish Saving the World, showing Jan. 21 at Cinema Center.](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/1a/Reel-Views-1af6ac42.jpeg)
Narcissism at center of indie film
Playing at Cinema Center this weekend, the indie dramedy When You Finish Saving the World stars Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard as Ziggy Katz, a high school student desperately trying to […]
![A doll designed to serve as a companion quickly becomes much more sinister in M3GAN.](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/bd/M3GAN-bd02a3f1.jpeg)
Better writing could help dull doll thriller
Dolls are creepy. Between the lifeless porcelain-eyed gaze and the unnatural permanent smile, it’s no surprise that filmmakers have gotten plenty of mileage from including them in horror movies for […]
![Cate Blanchett gave a stunning performance in Brent Leuthold’s top movie of 2022, Tár.](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/f5/Tar-f5c4f7ac.jpeg)
Counting down top movies of 2022
Audiences slowly, but surely, began venturing back out to theaters worldwide in 2022, giving the movie industry a much needed bounce back after the pandemic shut things down the prior […]
![Daniel Craig reprises his role as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/9b/Glass-Onion-9b68d076.jpeg)
Whodunit sequel exceeds predecessor
After delivering a modern whodunit classic with Knives Out a few years ago, writer/director Rian Johnson captures lightning in a bottle again with Glass Onion, a murder-mystery whose delights somehow […]
![Daniel Giménez Cacho stars in "Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths."](/wp-content/themes/yootheme/cache/82/ReelViews-824ba220.jpeg)
Acclaimed director swings, misses
After winning Academy awards for Best Director back-to-back years for Birdman and The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu had doors open to him in terms of what project to pursue next. […]