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Jake Coyle

Film Critic

Freud’s Last Session (2023)

Publish Date: January 4, 2024
"Anthony Hopkins shines in a sometimes uneven story of faith"

Chicago Tribune
Migration (2023)

Publish Date: December 21, 2023
"Cartoon ducks never spread their wings in lush-looking animated comedy (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Sun-Times
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Publish Date: August 2, 2023
"While a half shell of those films, has its own low-key charms. It’s goofier, grosser and mostly fun (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Sun-Times
Tori and Lokita (2022)

Publish Date: April 6, 2023
"A compassionate immigrant drama (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 4)"

Toronto Star
Plane (2023)

Publish Date: January 10, 2023
"Most of the story elements feel like they're stand-ins for basic plot conventions. But there's plenty of texture just in the actors and in Butler's taut, sweaty performance (...) Rating: ** (out of 4)"

Toronto Star
Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) (2022)

Publish Date: November 1, 2022
"I liked [it] more as a drama of dislocation. There are a few scenes here that feel directly taken from Iñárritu's subconscious. That ego gets in the way of insight is one of the subjects, but also, maybe, its undoing (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

Toronto Star
Descendant (2022)

Publish Date: October 20, 2022
"It's more than an account of finding the Clotilda. Brown roves across the land, crowding her film with a wide spectrum of voices for a living oral history (...) Rating: **** (out of 4)"

Chicago Sun-Times
Descendant (2022)

Publish Date: October 18, 2022
"'Descendant' powerfully telescopes past and present (...) One of the best films of the year (...) Rating: **** (out of 4)"

Toronto Star
Munich: The Edge of War (2021)

Publish Date: January 19, 2022
"The sympathetic portrait of the prime minister is typically well-played by Irons. And MacKay's alertness keeps 'Munich: The Edge of War' on edge (...) But [it] misses the moment (…) Rating: ** (out of 4)"

Chicago Sun-Times
Plan B (2021)

Publish Date: May 25, 2021
"Morales' film seems destined to be compared to Olivia Wilde's 'Booksmart,' (...) But it surprised me watching “Plan B” just how much it's its own thing. It has a comic rhythm and perspective of its own"

ABC News
Superintelligence (2020)

Publish Date: November 24, 2020
"Even though the innocuous 'Superintelligence' is on the bland side, it remains hard not to enjoy two hours with McCarthy (...) Rating: **½ (out of 4)"

Minneapolis Star Tribune
The One and Only Ivan (2020)

Publish Date: August 17, 2020
"A sweet if sleepy adaptation of Katherine Applegate's 2012 children's book (...) Give 'The One and Only Ivan' credit for trying to bridge 'Dumbo' with 'Blackfish' (…) Rating: **½ (out of 4)"

Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Secret Garden (2020)

Publish Date: August 4, 2020
"It's sluggish at times and too withdrawn for such a vibrant tale. But it stays nevertheless in tune with the spirit of Burnett's book"

Miami Herald
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

Publish Date: February 6, 2018
"The movie, simple and straightforward, derives most of its appeal from its verisimilitude (...) A threadbare script that fails to find much of a story to tell behind the headlines"

New York Daily News
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Publish Date: March 21, 2016
"As heavy and humorless as a Supreme Court decision (...) it’s the genuine rigor of Snyder’s engagement with the psychology of Superman and Batman that keeps the film grounded and the rivalry plausible"

The Washington Post

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