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Articles by Will Bjarnar

Challengers Movie Review

Zendaya turns in a career-best performance in this scintillating drama about tennis, sex, and power that doesn’t care who wins, loses, or gets hurt.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Movie Review

The newest entry in Warner Bros. x Legendary's seemingly endless slog of a Monsterverse itches to be taken seriously, but it's really a movie begging for someone to laugh at its expense.

Will's Dune: Part Two Movie Review

Denis Villenueve's "Dune" sequel does more than just elevate the story laid out in part one - it elevates its genre to heights that all sci-fi films in its wake will be chasing.

Bob Marley: One Love Movie Review

Our long, frustrating musical biopic nightmare rages on with this overly broad narrative of the life of Jamaican superstar Bob Marley that relies on telling over showing, standard supercuts, and cliches devoid of the life its subject wore on his sleeve like a badge of honor.

Killers of the Flower Moon Movie Review

BPBS's newest reviewer Will Bjarnar considers Martin Scorsese's latest offering and finds that it may be the deepest work of the venerated filmmaker's career.

2023 New York Film Festival: Hit Man Movie Review

BPBS's coverage of the 2023 New York Film Festival continues with
this capital-G genre picture that oozes charm and has the fingerprints of its director all over it.

2023 New York Film Festival: Maestro Movie Review

BPBS's coverage of the 2023 New York Film Festival kicks off with a biopic of renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein that proves to be a acting triumph as well as a stratospheric leap forward for visually gifted director Bradley Cooper.
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