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Bless Their Little Hearts
(1984)
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Robert Daniels
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An unforgettable movie that’s a snapshot of how adverse economic pressures can weigh heavily on Black families.
Posted Jan 10, 2023
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2/4
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A Quiet Place Part II
(2021)
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Robert Daniels
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A Quiet Place II is a string of well-placed, smartly created scenarios leveraged for maximum tension that only swings us to the next film. Rather than allowing us to enjoy this one.
Posted May 18, 2021
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3/4
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Godzilla vs. Kong
(2021)
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Robert Daniels
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Godzilla vs Kong is a marked improvement over King of the Monsters with regards to graphics, choreography, and scale.
Posted Mar 29, 2021
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Sylvie's Love
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Sylvie's Love isn't a knock-off of If Beale Could Talk. The romance charts its own distinct path.
Posted Dec 23, 2020
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Kubrick by Kubrick
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Monro's Kubrick by Kubrick isn't more than a loose highlight reel of the director's career buttressed by a fairly flat interview.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
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Notturno
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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In Rosi's pursuit to win hearts and eyes, with Notturno, the heart beats inauthentically.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
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Finding Yingying
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Shi's Finding Yingying should come with complimentary napkins. It's a sad story, yet an even more fitting tribute.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
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4/4
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Nomadland
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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McDormand is still finding the little-told stories that lead to impactful cinema.
Posted Sep 12, 2020
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3.5/4
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One Night in Miami
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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More than a sentimental "what if," King's One Night in Miami... is a blistering feature debut replete with visceral performances from its incredible cast.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
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3/4
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Mulan
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Caro's Mulan carries the same emotional weight of the prior with a greater dramatic punch.
Posted Sep 03, 2020
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4/4
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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His least accessible film in some ways, but his most universally affecting in others, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is Kaufman's most advanced directorial work to date.
Posted Aug 27, 2020
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3/4
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Tesla
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Often surreal and ambitious, Almereyda's Tesla relegates its subject as a mystery, telling us little beyond the history books; yet as a biopic that rebels against expectations and the need for acceptance, is pitched perfectly to the man.
Posted Aug 22, 2020
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1/4
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Random Acts of Violence
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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Random Acts of Violence explores artistic exploitation, inspiration, and consequence in a confused slasher bereft of a point.
Posted Aug 21, 2020
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3/4
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Sputnik
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Egor Abramenko's Russian extraterrestrial creature feature Sputnik... is a gory science-fiction fright.
Posted Aug 13, 2020
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3.5/4
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Boys State
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Boys State offers a ruminative peek into America's future.
Posted Aug 12, 2020
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3.5/4
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Song Without a Name
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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León's impressive debut is a sorrowful elegy, a funeral without the body, and a beautifully wrought lament to the voiceless.
Posted Aug 09, 2020
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4/4
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She Dies Tomorrow
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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She Dies Tomorrow will remain a brilliant portrait of existential dread, long after the Covid has departed, long after we have gone.
Posted Aug 07, 2020
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2.5/4
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An American Pickle
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Irreverent and strange, what An American Pickle lacks in depth, it finds in Rogen.
Posted Aug 06, 2020
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3/4
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Summerland
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Swale's Summerland, through its uptempo editing and endearing characters, is a throwback to homespun historical narratives, and a quaint slice of heaven.
Posted Aug 01, 2020
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The Road Not Taken
(2018)
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Robert Daniels
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The Road Not Taken is an off-kilter road movie with gangster film influences that finds its heart in a misanthropic character.
Posted Jul 25, 2020
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3/4
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The Beach House
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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[The Beach House] mixes proverbial Lovecraftian notions of fate in a terrifying yet simply constructed creature feature that's begging to be picked apart and analyzed.
Posted Jul 09, 2020
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3/4
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The Old Guard
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Prince-Bythewood always finds the character drama lurking beneath the dizzying action scenes.
Posted Jul 08, 2020
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2/4
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7500
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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At its best, 7500 is Captain Phillips light. The problem is that it's rarely at its best.
Posted Jun 18, 2020
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2/4
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The King of Staten Island
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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It's a tonally meandering star vehicle that ever-so-slowly tries to find meaning beyond Davidson's sardonic sense of humor.
Posted Jun 08, 2020
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4/4
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The Vast of Night
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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The Vast of Night [is imbued] with terrifying vibes replete with a restless hunger to experience the fantastical.
Posted May 29, 2020
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1.5/4
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The High Note
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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The High Note [is] tragically off-key.
Posted May 27, 2020
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3/4
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The Booksellers
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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An engrossing documentary that lovingly demonstrates the importance of books within our culture and our evolving relationship to them.
Posted May 12, 2020
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2.5/4
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Capone
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Part B-movie; part feral oddity... [Capone is] a bat-shit biopic bedecked by body horror.
Posted May 12, 2020
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3/4
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Working Man
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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Working Man is a confident expression of moving on, opening up, and learning to live again.
Posted May 05, 2020
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Through the Night
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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A thoughtful directorial debut for Limbal; Through the Night is sweet and delightful, and remarkably personal and compelling.
Posted Apr 26, 2020
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P.S. Burn This Letter Please
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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P.S. Burn This Letter Please [has] a wellspring of pleasure and intimacy while recounting the gay scene of New York and the broader United States.
Posted Apr 26, 2020
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The State of Texas vs. Melissa
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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The State of Texas vs. Melissa, is a heart wrenching and urgent example of justice rendered incorrectly.
Posted Apr 26, 2020
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3/4
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Butt Boy
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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In Cornack's Butt Boy, rarely has toilet humor seemed so astute.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
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1.5/4
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The Hunt
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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The Hunt talks a big game... but it ultimately comes home empty-handed.
Posted Mar 11, 2020
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3.5/4
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always is never anything less than a crucial and timely story of hardship and love, of choice-made real by a series of beautiful observations.
Posted Mar 04, 2020
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3/4
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The Invisible Man
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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The Invisible Man interlocks the real-world distress felt by many women, while giving face to the demons men would rather think only exist in handfuls today.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
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3/4
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Onward
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Onward crafts a sweetly enchanted tale about the memories and legacies left behind and our adoration for the past in lieu of the uncertain future.
Posted Feb 21, 2020
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3/4
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Premature
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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Rashaad Ernesto Green's innocently composed Premature... deeply [inhales] love with each earnest breath.
Posted Feb 21, 2020
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1.5/4
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Downhill
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Downhill never sticks the landing as a couple's comedy nor as a marriage in crisis.
Posted Feb 14, 2020
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2.5/4
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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It's a collage of glitter-packed fun.
Posted Feb 06, 2020
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3.5/4
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Zola
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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In marrying the language of social media with cinema, Zola is a blinding success
Posted Feb 05, 2020
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3/4
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Whirlybird
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Whirlybird is a brutal and compelling portrait with regards to ambition and scope, and empathy.
Posted Feb 05, 2020
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3/4
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Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Happy Happy Joy Joy - The Ren & Stimpy Story is engrossing and gutsy, and tactfully executed, but could be more combative.
Posted Jan 26, 2020
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2.5/4
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The Go-Go's
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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The Go-Go's sometimes lacks a personal touch, and too often waltzes through as a by-the-numbers music documentary, but certainly serves as a monument to a seminal group.
Posted Jan 26, 2020
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3.5/4
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This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection urgently intertwines magical realism in a parable of grief and resilience...
Posted Jan 25, 2020
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2/4
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Dolittle
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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DOLITTLE: I literally don't care enough to think up a good pun.
Posted Jan 15, 2020
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3.5/4
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Bad Boys for Life
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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With both characters parsing through the consequences of their cavalier actions.... comes Lawrence and Smith's best acting in years.
Posted Jan 15, 2020
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2/4
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Les misérables
(2019)
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Robert Daniels
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While Ly's narrative of class and racial tensions between Black Muslim project dwellers and the abusive cops who patrol their streets offers stressfully stitched periods of suspense, the portrayal of the Black victims lack depth.
Posted Jan 13, 2020
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2/4
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Underwater
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Eubank is close to a B-movie classic, but instead devolves into D-movie status.
Posted Jan 09, 2020
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2/4
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Like a Boss
(2020)
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Robert Daniels
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Like a Boss could be a good uplifting film, a narrative about independence and beauty in the face of misunderstanding. Instead, it buckles and falls into the uglier portions of what's inside.
Posted Jan 09, 2020
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