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Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Jul 11, 2025 5/5 Bleak as hell but so expertly made it’s hard not to sit in awe. Go to Full Review Sorcerer (1977) 85% 84%

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Jul 11, 2025 5/5 Bleak as hell but so expertly made it’s hard not to sit in awe. Go to Full Review The Wages of Fear (1953) 100% 95%

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Jun 26, 2025 2/5 A Hollywood blockbuster from Warner Bros. engineered to make a boatload of money on the backs of stale formulas and the lowest common denominator. Go to Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly May 31, 2025 3/5 It’s swift and scary and contains enough excitement and unsettling imagery for an engaging time. Go to Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly May 28, 2025 2.5/5 "The Phoenician Scheme" isn’t free from humor, both in the writing and in the execution, but the hallmarks that make for a compelling Anderson picture miss their mark. Go to Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly May 22, 2025 3/5 Achieves the cinematic exhilaration you hope for in a Tom Cruise movie, even if the script doesn't. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly May 15, 2025 4/5 A Jekyll and Hyde riff, and it’s as subtle as a kick to the groin. Go to Full Review How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) 65% 77%

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly May 15, 2025 5/5 Every frame of "Withnail" excretes authenticity. Go to Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% 94%

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Apr 30, 2025 4/5 The longtime Canadian body-horrorist has been making audiences squeamish since the 1970s. But in his latest, "The Shrouds," there’s a sense that the squeamishness relates to real-world grief, grounding this near-future sci-fi story obsessed with death. Go to Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Apr 24, 2025 3.5/5 Chaplin’s skill of communicating significant information with small touches — particularly when it comes to sexual relations at a time when even a hint was taboo — carries the kind of cleverness that’s timeless. Go to Full Review A Woman of Paris (1923) 100% 75%

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Mar 26, 2025 1/5 One of the many frustrations of "Death of a Unicorn" is how shockingly literal it is. Go to Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 52% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Mar 19, 2025 4/5 One of the pleasures of "Black Bag," and there are many, is that the movie itself is a red herring. Go to Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Mar 13, 2025 4/5 A handful of off-kilter dream sequences, which are revealed to be dreams only retroactively, and realistic scenes that still contain a mystical quality and Nyoni’s images of entrapment become tangible. A must-see. Go to Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Mar 6, 2025 4/5 Though "One to One" isn’t a tip-to-turn concert film, the footage of the Plastic Ono Band on stage is fantastic. So, too, is the archival footage Macdonald and Rice-Edwards use as connective tissue to bring political and personal context to the story. Go to Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 90% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Mar 6, 2025 3/5 A humane look at what it takes for someone to move beyond their pain. Go to Full Review In Waves and War (2024) - - - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Mar 6, 2025 4.5/5 It’s fascinating, infuriating and so expertly constructed that you’ll be thinking about it for months. Go to Full Review The White House Effect (2024) 94% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Feb 27, 2025 5/5 Using split screens and overlapping panels, Morrison reconstructs the moments leading up to the shooting and deconstructs the post-shooting narrative the police create to justify the killing. Go to Full Review Incident (2023) - - - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Feb 27, 2025 4/5 Zilbalodis wisely avoids anthropomorphizing the animals. But that doesn’t mean they are free from personality. Go to Full Review Flow (2024) 97% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Feb 12, 2025 3.5/5 "Paddington in Peru" feels a little overstuffed when it tries to find something for everyone to do, but it never gets too out of hand. It’s an adventure story in the classic Saturday matinee sense. Go to Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% - -

Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Jan 9, 2025 4/5 It’s the kind of story that would come off as flat and boring and probably pretentious if the storyteller didn’t tell it well. But Almodóvar does. And it works. Go to Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 80% - -