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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
My Son (Mon Garçon) (2017)

Jordan Mintzer

It's got a nervously eerie feel to it that's grounded in Canet's gripping turn as a daddy out to do good for his estranged family.
Posted Sep 21, 2017
2
The Captain (Der Hauptmann) (2017)

Todd McCarthy

The central premise is arresting, as is the style, but there's a lot more that could have been done with it than just show how one ill-defined individual instantly opts to join his country's lowest form of life.
Posted Sep 21, 2017
3
Love Means Zero (2017)

Todd McCarthy

A Svengali of the tennis world gets his close-up in the diabolically well-titled Love Means Zero, an on-its-toes documentary about the legendary and/or notorious tennis teacher and coach Nick Bollettieri.
Posted Sep 21, 2017
4
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

Sheri Linden

It's the chemistry between Domhnall Gleeson and newcomer Will Tilston, as the awkwardly matched father and son, that makes the movie more than a mélange of inept parenting and Tigger too.
Posted Sep 20, 2017
5
Gaga: Five Foot Two (2017)

Leslie Felperin

One can imagine woe would betide anyone who might neglect, say, to get the lining on a sequined jacket fixed the instant she asks for it, as happens just before she does the halftime show at the Super Bowl.
Posted Sep 20, 2017
6
Elizabeth Blue (2017)

Frank Scheck

Despite Anna Schafer's gripping performance in the lead role, this deeply personal effort is too narratively sluggish to sustain attention.
Posted Sep 20, 2017
7
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

John DeFore

A perfectly adequate family film for kids who love watching things they've seen many times before (which is to say, most kids), it offers plenty of chuckles for their parents but nothing approaching the glee of that first Lego Movie.
Posted Sep 20, 2017
8
Never Here (2017)

Stephen Dalton

An elusive, allusive, classy psycho-thriller debut.
Posted Sep 19, 2017
9
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (Le grand méchant renard et autres contes) (2017)

Jordan Mintzer

Renner and Imbert spend more time dishing out jokes than they do weaving the kind of meaningful narrative that made Ernest & Celestine so special, yet while Fox is more of a slaphappy romp than a morality play, there's still a method to the madness.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
10
Getting Naked (2017)

Neil Young

While Gal Friday, Hazel Honeysuckle and the Schlep Sisters are unfailingly lively, articulate and sympathetic company, proceedings take on a repetitive, even monotonous air after a while.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
11
The Testament (2017)

Neil Young

Greenberg, whose previous output has primarily been for television, develops potentially fascinating storylines and characters in frustratingly two dimensional fashion.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
12
M (2017)

Neil Young

Gets an F.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
13
All You Can Eat Bouddha (2017)

Boyd van Hoeij

The film morphs from something oddball but nonetheless semi-realistic into a disquietingly strange tale featuring a talking octopus and a revolution that might be at once political and intestinal.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
14
Gutland (2017)

Deborah Young

It fascinatingly blurs the line between fantasy and reality, from the eerie intro all the way through to a surprise finale that raises goosebumps.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
15
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

Todd McCarthy

Considerable shrewdness is applied to the conception and execution of nearly every scene to make this old spy stuff feel fresh, which it mostly does.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
16
Woman Walks Ahead (2017)

Todd McCarthy

Despite the estimable talent on hand both behind and in front of the camera, the story never comes to convincing life and doesn't, in the end, have anywhere particularly surprising or interesting to go.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
17
Indian Horse (2018)

Boyd van Hoeij

Important but not very nuanced.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
18
Jerry Before Seinfeld (2017)

Keith Uhlich

There's always another bon mot, and the occasional dud humor in Jerry Before Seinfeld in no way detracts from the larger pleasures of watching this peerless comedian pay tribute to his roots.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
19
Outside In (2017)

John DeFore

A love story whose resolution remains tough to predict, Outside In respects all its characters by not pretending their choices are easily made.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
20
The Crescent (2017)

John DeFore

Smart but perhaps a bit too restrained for its own good.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
21
You Disappear (Du forsvinder) (2017)

David Rooney

First-rate actors and polished filmmaking craft ensure reasonable involvement, but the movie's literary density and structural repetitiousness become steadily more wearing than intriguing.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
22
Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle (2017)

Boyd van Hoeij

A tone-deaf disappointment from writer-director Mike van Diem.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
23
Miracle (Stebuklas) (2017)

Boyd van Hoeij

Neither the writing nor the filmmaking are sharp or go deep enough to warrant any kind of wider breakout beyond local and festival play.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
24
Downrange (2017)

Deborah Young

A bloody one-note horror film.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
25
The Brawler (Mukkabaaz) (2017)

Deborah Young

Though the basic plot about a despised underdog who, against overwhelming odds, grits his teeth and trains for the big match could hardly be less clichéd, its cinematic level of invention makes sure that much more is going on.
Posted Sep 17, 2017
26
Revenge (2017)

David Rooney

Tautly controlled and wildly over-the-top, executed with flashy style, sly visual humor and a subversive feminist sensibility.
Posted Sep 16, 2017
27
The Wife (2016)

Jon Frosch

Like a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close commands the center of The Wife: still, formidable and impossible to look away from.
Posted Sep 16, 2017
28
Scaffolding (2017)

Jordan Mintzer

A tough and moving educational drama.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
29
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (2017)

Boyd van Hoeij

Art house fare that's challenging but also rewarding, with the oblique early going giving way to an increasingly clear picture as the two orphaned youngsters try and come to terms with the world and their dark past.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
30
Red Trees (2017)

Sheri Linden

The sad truth is that we've heard countless harrowing stories of the Holocaust, and this one, for the most part, isn't presented in a way that makes it indelible or urgent.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
31
Ryde (2016)

Frank Scheck

Although boasting impressive visual sheen, Ryde proves by-the-numbers horror.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
32
Time to Die (Tiempo de morir) (1966)

John DeFore

On the whole, sharp dramatization and direct performances suffice to put the story's themes across more urgently than expected.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
33
Alina (2017)

Frank Scheck

In addition to its unconvincing, cliché-ridden storyline, Alina takes itself too seriously.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
34
The Poet and The Boy (Si-e-nui sa-rang) (2017)

Boyd van Hoeij

This is clearly a first work with several issues, especially in its midsection, that's nonetheless promising and already makes one wonder what Kim will do next.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
35
Marrowbone (2017)

John DeFore

Scary enough to please most genre buffs, it would also play well in art houses: If you were to go through and remove every hint of ghosts, you'd still have a drama well worth seeing.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
36
Manolo, The Boy Who Made Shoes For Lizards (2017)

Sheri Linden

As frustrating as The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards can be ... it makes quite clear that the man behind a revered international brand is an artist first and foremost. For his ardent admirers, that will probably be a perfect fit.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
37
Valley of Shadows (2017)

David Rooney

There's real confidence in the filmmaking, creating a shadowy world that washes over you, in which a boy gets lost in his nightmares, perhaps learning that the monster all children fear is a force to be protected.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
38
Sheikh Jackson (2017)

Stephen Dalton

Salama ... uses playful juxtapositions and time-jumping plotlines to make serious points about compassion, generational friction and family dysfunction.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
39
Easy Living (2017)

Frank Scheck

A character study of an endlessly flawed human being, Easy Living thankfully avoids heavy moralizing or platitudinous bromides and it even makes familiar situations ... seem fresh.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
40
Wetlands (2017)

Frank Scheck

Stronger on style than substance.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
41
The China Hustle (2017)

John DeFore

An infuriating tale of stocks and fraud, but one that's easy for non-traders to understand.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
42
Extraordinary Ordinary People (2017)

John DeFore

A dazzling array of talent presented in a very modestly-made doc.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
43
Berlin Drifters (2017)

Elizabeth Kerr

Berlin Drifters will ... be hampered by its raw production values and hit-and-miss performances, but even those can't really disguise the film's fundamentally sweet-and traditional-heart.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
44
We Blew It (2017)

Bernard Besserglik

We Blew It is far from being a routine run-through of a decade whose legacy continues to divide.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
45
Rainbow: A Private Affair (Una questione privata) (2017)

Deborah Young

At once a summing-up of the Tavianis' filmmaking and an affirmation of their unshaken belief that human life is an uneasy compromise between the private and political spheres.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
46
Against The Night (2017)

Frank Scheck

Other than mostly eschewing the found-footage style in which one can easily see it going, Brent Cavallaro's horror film leaves no clichéd stone unturned.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
47
Left Behind Buddha (The Taste of Rice Flower) (2017)

Clarence Tsui

Pengfei has delivered a contemplative portrait of how the Chinese rural underclass - and, specifically, those from an ethnic minority - accommodate themselves with the changes around them.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
48
C'est la vie (Le sens de la fête) (2017)

Boyd van Hoeij

This is an expertly assembled, tartly played and hugely enjoyable romp ...
Posted Sep 14, 2017
49
Kings (2017)

David Rooney

For all its honorable intentions to address sensitive issues that still sting, Kings is an unconvincing tonal patchwork.
Posted Sep 14, 2017
50
Manhunt (2017)

Deborah Young

It's the kind of cartoonish film where, no matter what the odds and how many bullets are flying at our heroes, they never get seriously injured. Everyone else dies.
Posted Sep 13, 2017