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Fletcher Powell

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Fletcher Powell is a producer, host, and film critic for KMUW public radio in Wichita, KS.

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If That Mockingbird Don't Sing (2024) EDIT “It's an impressive thing just to let the movie come to you when you're a young director...” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024) 91% EDIT “If you’re the sort of person who’s able to manage a nearly constant stream of dissonant feelings, you’re likely to get a lot out of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which is largely excellent, and never easy.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% EDIT “Sorry, Baby is unquestionably one of the best movies of the year, and uncommonly generous in its treatment of an exceptionally difficult experience.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 28, 2025 Full Review She Rides Shotgun (2025) 88% EDIT “I give She Rides Shotgun a whole lot of credit ... even if it doesn’t quite find a perfect balance between showing us [the] human side of things and also giving us a fairly typical thriller.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 28, 2025 Full Review The Pickup (2025) 25% EDIT “For the life of me, I’ll never understand how you’d cast Eddie Murphy in your action comedy and then have him play the straight man.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 28, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% EDIT “The movie is, basically, what you expect, if a little bit less than that, which is to say it’s plenty light and charming, notwithstanding all the murder, and everyone seems to be having a good time.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% EDIT “What you don’t see so often are movies about would-be whistleblowers who change their minds and don’t do anything. And that’s because it’s a stupid idea.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Went Up the Hill (2024) 67% EDIT “Went Up the Hill never does seem like it’s sure how to come together into a coherent whole, but it’s made up of some surprisingly effective parts.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “You can almost hear Raimi cackling as he zooms his camera around and superimposes floating faces on the screen... You can tell he’s having a blast, and you can’t help but to have fun with him.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 24, 2025 Full Review The Annihilation of Fish (1999) 76% EDIT “There’s a lot in the film that isn’t meant to be taken literally, and if you insist on a literal reading of it, you may struggle with its strangeness and silliness. But metaphor exists for a reason...” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Last Bullet (2025) 90% EDIT “[S]ome really good, grimy, car-crunching fun.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Tornado (2025) 66% EDIT “There’s minimalist and then there’s nothing-al-ist.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% EDIT “As far as it all goes, having a murdery shark guy is a pretty good idea, and Dangerous Animals proves that well enough for 90 minutes.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% EDIT “[T]he film is constantly undermining itself with its inability to decide on a tone.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Sally (2025) 88% EDIT “I don't think the new documentary Sally oversells the magnitude of [Ride's] profile at the time. She was as big as they say she is.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Sovereign (2025) 95% EDIT “Any talk about Sovereign probably begins and ends with Nick Offerman, who is unlike I’ve ever seen him before and is very good, but who, like the movie, also never quite elevates into being great.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Found Footage: The Making of The Patterson Project (2025) 76% EDIT “[T]here are much worse things in the world than an imperfect movie with modest goals that mostly wants to make you laugh and mostly succeeds.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Bonjour Tristesse (2024) 68% EDIT “More slow sunny shots on the beach are fine as far as it goes, but at some point enough is enough.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio May 13, 2025 Full Review Summer of 69 (2025) 89% EDIT “None of it ever becomes profound—at all—but it’s also not trying to.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio May 13, 2025 Full Review Close Your Eyes (2023) 93% EDIT “Close Your Eyes is exactly what I’d hoped for, which is to say, it left me nearly speechless.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Order (2024) 93% EDIT “...as gritty and dirty as it needs to be...” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) 80% EDIT “It’s curious, unusual, and a little bit mesmerizing.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Carry-On (2024) 88% EDIT “There are, of course, plot holes large enough to fly a Dreamliner through... but these are problems you expect from a movie like this.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Fire Inside (2024) 93% EDIT “A rousing and empowering movie that reminds us there’s still a whole lot of fighting left to do even after the final bell rings.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) 97% EDIT “This is why we love sitting in front of those big screens for hours on end.” – KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Apr 17, 2025 Full Review
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