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Michael J. Casey

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I cover movies for Boulder Weekly, program for CU-Boulder's International Film Series and write about them whenever I can.

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A Woman of Paris (1923) 94% 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.” – Boulder Weekly Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 98% 4/5 “"Sinners" is a massive film ... and incorporates more characters and ideas than three or four run-of-the-mill Hollywood offerings.” – Michael J. Cinema Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 83% 2.5/5 “A movie that manages to strike the right notes in the wrong order.” – Michael J. Cinema Apr 5, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% 1/5 “One of the many frustrations of "Death of a Unicorn" is how shockingly literal it is.” – Boulder Weekly Mar 26, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% 4/5 “One of the pleasures of "Black Bag," and there are many, is that the movie itself is a red herring.” – Boulder Weekly Mar 19, 2025 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% 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.” – Boulder Weekly Mar 13, 2025 Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 89% 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. ” – Boulder Weekly Mar 6, 2025 Full Review In Waves and War (2024) 3/5 “A humane look at what it takes for someone to move beyond their pain.” – Boulder Weekly Mar 6, 2025 Full Review The White House Effect (2024) 4.5/5 “It’s fascinating, infuriating and so expertly constructed that you’ll be thinking about it for months.” – Boulder Weekly Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Incident (2023) 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.” – Boulder Weekly Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% 4/5 “Zilbalodis wisely avoids anthropomorphizing the animals. But that doesn’t mean they are free from personality.” – Boulder Weekly Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% 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.” – Boulder Weekly Feb 12, 2025 Full Review King Lear (1987) 64% 4/5 “The kind of nonsense that makes Godard’s cinema inscrutable to some and electrifying to others.” – Michael J. Cinema Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Winchester '73 (1950) 100% 5/5 “"Winchester ’73" plays the Wild West motif like a myth.” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024) 97% 3/5 “Fascinating photography, even if the documentary isn't.” – Metro Arts Jan 17, 2025 Full Review Better Man (2024) 88% 3.5/5 “What a weird movie "Better Man" is. It might not be the best movie you’ll see this month, but I bet you’ll be thinking about this one long after forgetting the others.” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 9, 2025 Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 81% 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. ” – Boulder Weekly Jan 9, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 1.5/5 “There’s nothing remotely interior about Dylan or his music in "A Complete Unknown."” – Boulder Weekly Dec 19, 2024 Full Review The End (2024) 56% 2/5 “With a runtime of two and a half hours and only a couple of strong singing voices to stand on, I suspect that "The End" will be beloved more for its ambition than its success.” – Boulder Weekly Dec 12, 2024 Full Review Paper Moon (1973) 91% 5/5 “A treat.” – Metro Arts Dec 7, 2024 Full Review Mississippi Masala (1991) 92% 4/5 “The heart of this story revolves around the sweet and sexy romance of Mina and Demetrius, and Washington is downright radiant in his youth and command.” – Boulder Weekly Dec 7, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% 3.5/5 “Plays like Luca Guadagnino’s "2001: A Space Odyssey" — another movie that approached its material with a deliberate pace.” – Boulder Weekly Dec 7, 2024 Full Review The Double Life of Veronique (1991) 86% 4.5/5 “The frame dissolves, the connection is palpable and, for a brief moment, the veil between you and the screen falls. It’s moments like this that make my heart happy that pictures can move.” – Boulder Weekly Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 61% 3/5 “"Moana 2" is fun. The story here is better than most sequels—it almost starts to rehash the plot of the first movie before finding new zigs to zag—and the overall structure of the journey feels more akin to mythology than rote adventure. Not” – Michael J. Cinema Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 3/5 “Scott has made the act of movie watching an enjoyable one—even if you forget just about everything a week after watching it. ” – Michael J. Cinema Nov 21, 2024 Full Review
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