The boys are back in town.
‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’
This Rob Reiner-directed sequel to his 1984 mockumentary about a British heavy-metal band that can turn the volume to 11 follows the musicians as they prepare for a reunion show.
From our review:
The good news about “Spinal Tap II” is that everyone involved seems to have understood the assignment, which makes for a genial 83 minutes of soft jokes and jowls.
In theaters. Read the full review.
Love thy neighbor?
‘The Man in My Basement’
In a historically African American community in 1990s Sag Harbor, things get weird when a Black homeowner meets a white man who offers a lot of money to rent the basement. Nadia Latif has adapted Walter Mosley’s 2004 novel.
From our review:
Everything in the film presents itself as some kind of metaphor about race and history and family and guilt until, at last, it feels like maybe nothing is symbolic at all. This can at times be the trouble with adapting fiction for the screen — there’s so much more room in a novel to build out both the inner and outer lives of any character than there is in the space of two hours in a movie.
In theaters. Read the full review.
Critic’s Pick
Yearning and lost potential.
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