Behind The Lens Movie Reviews - Behind The Lens Online https://behindthelensonline.net/site/category/reviews/ a division of elias entertainment network Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:47:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/btl-msd-icon-90x90.jpg Behind The Lens Movie Reviews - Behind The Lens Online https://behindthelensonline.net/site/category/reviews/ 32 32 THE BEAST: What A Ride It Is! https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/the-beast-review/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:24 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43451 This is one of the best, if not the best, film of Renny Harlin's career... He checks every box an action fan could want —explosions, gunfire, rockets, helicopters, vehicular mayhem, Gatling guns, hand-to-hand combat and knives—but never allows the spectacle to become the whole movie.

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]]> CITIZEN VIGILANTE – A Gunslinger for a World Where Justice and Law No Longer Ride Together https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/citizen-vigilante-review/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:46:43 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43303 Written and directed by Boll and starring Armie Hammer and Costas Mandylor, CITIZEN VIGILANTE is a brutal, bloody, provocative contemporary Western, trading horses and dusty frontier towns for the streets of Europe, social media, the dark web, and an international manhunt...Boll doesn't pussyfoot around any of this. CITIZEN VIGILANTE is built around an uncomfortable dramatic question: what happens when the distance between law and perceived justice becomes so great that someone decides to fill that void himself?

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]]> FLOATING CAROUSEL – The More Dating Changes, the More It Stays Exactly the Same https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/floating-carousel-review/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:24:12 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43285 What makes much of FLOATING CAROUSEL work is that Napier and Powers don't strain for jokes. The humor generally comes from behavior... [But] Napier and Powers have created an ensemble filled with amusing characters and situations, but not every one of them requires the amount of attention afforded it.

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]]> THE DEPUTY — Duke Nicholson Earns the Badge One Long Night at a Time https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/the-deputy-movie-review/ https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/the-deputy-movie-review/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:17:25 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43355 THE DEPUTY is ostensibly a crime thriller, complete with dead bodies, missing evidence, corruption and an increasingly desperate man trying to determine whom he can trust, but works best when viewed as a character study wrapped inside the trappings of a genre film.

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]]> https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/the-deputy-movie-review/feed/ 1 THE FISHERMAN – Joy, Wisdom, and the Inevitability of Change—According to a Talking Fish https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/the-fisherman-review/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:15:22 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43299 Enchanting, charming, funny, sweet, and filled with an infectious sense of joy...THE FISHERMAN makes that journey with an abundance of humor, humanity and visual beauty, but above all, it leaves you with joy.

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]]> ORION – Are You Listening? https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/orion-review/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:29:57 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43305 ORION is a riveting, intelligent, meticulously crafted psychological sci-fi thriller constructed with more detail and less information that creates the visual, aural, and thematic language of the film.

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]]> THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS — When Smart People Make Delightfully Stupid Decisions About Love https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/the-love-hypothesis-review/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:58:59 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43229 Love makes fools of us all. And in director Claire Scanlon's utterly charming THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS, that's precisely where the fun begins.

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]]> ONE LAST SHOT — Three Films, One Mission, and One Hell of a Way to Bring Jake Harris Home https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/one-last-shot-movie-review/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:23:15 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43262 For a trilogy built around perpetual motion, Jake Harris doesn’t need another heroic pose or explosive victory lap. Because to borrow a sentiment once carved into the headstone of another heroic world-saver:  Jake Harris saved the world. A lot.

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]]> THE INCOMER: Folklore, Friendship, and Finding Your Own Story https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/the-incomer-movie-review/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:04:25 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43191 Every so often a film comes along that sounds utterly ridiculous on paper, shouldn't work by any conventional calculation, and somehow wins you over precisely because it refuses to apologize for how strange it is.  THE INCOMER is one of those films.

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]]> I HAVE PROOF is riveting, unsettling and increasingly immersive https://behindthelensonline.net/site/reviews/movies/i-have-proof-movie-review/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:00:33 +0000 https://behindthelensonline.net/site/?p=43169 When Bressack finally releases the tightening spring of fear and tension, I HAVE PROOF becomes almost breathless.

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