These Vikings are a bloody bunch

For at least one obsessed cinephile we know, THE NORTHMAN is the one film this year that he absolutely will not miss. The film depicts a violent Viking world of the 8th century and is rooted in the same story that inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet. The mere fact that it's directed by Roger Eggers (THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE WITCH) was enough to stoke our cinephile friend's enthusiasm. Then there's the dynamite cast. And by all accounts, it's a technical marvel, so it checks a lot of boxes. It opens Friday.

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, with us for another week, is making box-office news as an arthouse film that has crossed over into the commercial market. It's quite the sensation and is being touted as one of those landmark films that people will be talking about for years. We're also keeping THE BAD GUYS.

Friday through Monday, April 29–May 2

Click film titles below for showtimes and tickets

THE NORTHMAN

"Eggers recreated, with obsessive accuracy, the world of the medievals in order to lower us into a myth that feels primordial and strange, as if it’s tapping into something in the back of our minds that we’ve always known but half forgotten."
Vox

"Working for the first time with a blockbuster-scaled budget, Eggers can give full range to his feverishly inventive imagination, and the result is often hypnotic..."
Slate

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

"It's a wholly original movie at a time when originality is in short supply ... one of the most exciting films to come along in a long while."
News.com.au

"Yeoh imbues Evelyn with moving shades of melancholy, regret, resolve and growing curiosity. She’s the kind of woman the world (and Hollywood) routinely overlooks, but Yeoh makes her embrace of lead-character energy positively gripping."
Vanity Fair

THE BAD GUYS

"A furry, scaly version of Quentin Tarantino or Elmore Leonard--or at least, that's what it aspires to be."
RogerEbert.com

"The movie plays its target audience like a fiddle. That is music, no matter how familiar, that even the most cynical among us can enjoy."
Observer

Update on the Ukraine project

We're delighted to announce that the fundraising project, Stand with Ukraine through Film, has now passed the $100,000 mark. Many of you attended the premiere of THE GUIDE at Cinema Salem last month, which launched the project. We are beginning to award grants and will be announcing details soon. Funds were raised at more than 600 cinemas across the U.S. and Canada, but about 25% of the money has come from Massachusetts. At Cinema Salem alone we raised $12,000. Thanks again to all who are helping.

We expect there will be more screenings of THE GUIDE and more funds raised, in large part because (drum roll, please) the project was featured this morning on Good Morning America. Here's a link to the segment: goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/community-theaters-raise-money-ukraine-84365914.

Find more info at standwithukrainethroughfilm.org.

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