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Michael J. Casey

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Biography:

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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H Is for Hawk (2025) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “Lowthorpe opts for a movie where the audience is allowed to sit within Helen’s sorrow with no clear-cut answers and marvel at the bird that provides none, yet seems to provoke the questions often unasked.” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Fantastic way to blend documentary and recreation.” – Metro Arts Jan 24, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 2.5/5 EDIT “I suspect Garland and Boyle are most interested in Dr. Kelson. He’s the steadfast pole around which all of Garland’s disparate ideas spin, and Fiennes gives a beautiful and still performance that grounds Boyle’s frenetic tone.” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 17, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 2.5/5 EDIT “Despite all the physical and ideological provocation, I find these movies to be simplistic and a little silly. ” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “An impressive piece of drama and a paradoxical portrait.” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 2/5 EDIT “"The Choral" is a movie without secrets.” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 14, 2026 Full Review My Darling Clementine (1946) 100% 5/5 EDIT “A magnificent movie, filled with poetry and conflicting ideals about the need for law and order, and the ease with which it corrupts.” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 14, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “"No Other Choice" is the kind of flick I can get behind ... but why can’t Park get this engine to turn over?” – Michael J. Cinema Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 2/5 EDIT “A crowd-pleasing flick that holds no secrets.” – Metro Arts Dec 27, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “The story of a New York City con man barely skirting the gutter, streaked with cinematographer Darius Khondji’s images that attach themself so close to Marty you can almost smell his desperation.” – Michael J. Cinema Dec 25, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “A final shot that gives you everything you want out of this narrative. ” – Metro Arts Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “Three installments and more than nine hours in, Earth’s colonizers war against Pandora’s natives have become so repetitive it’s baffling to think writer-director James Cameron has two more installments up his sleeve.” – Michael J. Cinema Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Sam Levy’s cinematography is impressive in its immersion, considering the self-imposed limitation of staying behind the proscenium arch without feeling like a member of the audience.” – Michael J. Cinema Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Strains against the story it wants to tell and the entertainment it needs to deliver.” – Michael J. Cinema Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink (2023) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “A succinct and impressive exploration about how local media is being undercut by design.” – Metro Arts Nov 23, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 2/5 EDIT “"Rental Family" is a sweet movie full of saccharine bromides with little interest in uncovering the causes or conditions of loneliness.” – Michael J. Cinema Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 95% 4.5 EDIT “"Liberty Valance" illuminates how unrest in the 20th century reached back to the 19th century to uncover the lies America has been telling itself ever since.” – Michael J. Cinema Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2/5 EDIT “Goth is good as Elizabeth—hell, they’re all pretty good, even Elordi, who has to do a lot under some heavy makeup—but it’s not enough to breath life into "Frankenstein."” – Michael J. Cinema Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The right script, brought to life by the right performers, captured by the right filmmaker.” – Metro Arts Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% 4/5 EDIT “You may not leave the documentary feeling hopeful for the future, but for almost two hours, you will not look away, and your attention will not drift.” – Michael J. Cinema Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Born in Flames (1983) 89% 5/5 EDIT “Borden’s film persists 40 years on. And not simply because viewers agree with the message, but because the kinetics with which Borden presents it are electrifying.” – Michael J. Cinema Oct 3, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4.5/5 EDIT “"Battle" threads the difficult needle of engaging with the world without making the setting so specific that it limits the filmmakers’ scope.” – Michael J. Cinema Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Squibb might bring too many laughs to land the serious sentiments Tory Kamen’s script wants to deliver. ” – Michael J. Cinema Sep 27, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 2.5/5 EDIT “Shockingly sincere and literal to the point of perversion.” – Michael J. Cinema Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 89% 4.5/5 EDIT “"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" may not be a perfect movie, but it’s damn close.” – Michael J. Cinema Sep 13, 2025 Full Review
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