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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Brewmaster (2018)

John DeFore

May ride the coattails of its subject's surging popularity, but will leave most thirsts unquenched.
Posted Oct 20, 2018
2
Face (2002)

Kirk Honeycutt

[Pan's] actors are exceptional.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
3
Banana Split (2018)

Justin Lowe

Kasulke maintains a strong rapport with his cast and as a result the performances rarely feel forced, even when things get a bit outrageous, although for a cinematographer-turned-director, he favors a fairly subdued visual style.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
4
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries (2018)

Frank Scheck

This affectionate but clear-eyed documentary goes a long way toward establishing [SNL's] legacy.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
5
Brampton's Own (2018)

John DeFore

While the film effectively captures Dustin's ambivalence and melancholy about giving up on baseball, the love story isn't nearly persuasive, and Dustin's core failure as a person...just feels like a device lifted from bigger sports dramas.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
6
My Dinner with Hervé (2018)

Sheri Linden

[Dinklage's] remarkable wordless reaction is at once sheepish, knowing, proud and embarrassed. Like a well-shot arrow, that instant of self-awareness pierces the uneven narrative, straight to the broken heart.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
7
ReRun (2018)

Caryn James

It seems like an act of immense generosity that Christopher Lloyd has added his warm, affecting presence to ReRun, an otherwise pallid and clumsy contemporary spin on It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
8
Nigerian Prince (2018)

John DeFore

A film that feels authentic but should be wholly accessible to auds who pay far more attention to American indies than Nollywood imports.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
9
The Lost Village (2018)

Frank Scheck

The Lost Village squanders its noble intentions with poor execution...
Posted Oct 18, 2018
10
The Red Phallus (2018)

Clarence Tsui

Visually striking and remarkably symbolic, The Red Phallus is a film hard to overlook, and not just because of its startling title.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
11
Change in the Air (2018)

Frank Scheck

Change in the Air proves frustrating and dull for most of its running time, displaying unwarranted confidence in its ability to cast a spell.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
12
The Super (2018)

Frank Scheck

It offers a few decent scares as well as the opportunity for Val Kilmer to once again display his unique brand of screen charisma.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
13
The Way We Were (1973)

Alan R. Howard

The movie has the look of a big Hollywood romantic film but because director Pollack looks corruption in the face and exposes it for what it feels like, The Way We Were emerges as one of the least sentimental love stories ever filmed.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
14
Bullitt (1968)

John Mahoney

It is simply one of the most exciting and intelligent action films in years, probably the best good-cop film we can expect to encounter.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
15
Impulso (2018)

Frank Scheck

Captures the essence of a mesmerizing performer.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
16
A Family Tour (2018)

Frank Scheck

Mixing its political and personal themes with passionate urgency, A Family Tour somehow manages to convey desperation and hopefulness simultaneously.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
17
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Stephen Dalton

Nothing feels too sentimentalized or sanitized, but nor is it sensationalized for extra shock value either. These are the true accounts of survivors, after all, mostly talking decades after the events and grateful to be alive.
Posted Oct 16, 2018
18
Mr. SOUL! (2018)

Sheri Linden

A rich and illuminating piece of cultural history.
Posted Oct 13, 2018
19
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy doesn't have much on its mind besides delivering on fights - and in that aspect it succeeds.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
20
Isabelle (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

Quickly paced and based on a novel, and creepy, idea, the film fritters away its potential by delivering only a modicum of horror and compounding that disappointment with some creaky performances.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
21
Fire Music (2018)

Frank Scheck

Featuring past and recent interviews with many of the key figures and generous doses of archival photographs and vintage performance footage, the film should be on any serious music lover's must-see list.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
22
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)

Stephen Dalton

Plenty of classy ingredients here, but Wheatley's tentative first foray into the realm of adult drama is not the heart-bruising emotional assault course it could have been.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
23
The Times of Bill Cunningham (2018)

David Rooney

If you have a subject as delightful and forthcoming as the self-invented shutterbug, not to mention decades' worth of fabulous footage and photographic records of high and low fashion, you really can't have too much of a good thing.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
24
Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 (2017)

Jordan Mintzer

A sobering study of death and remorse.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
25
The Chaperone (2018)

Justin Lowe

Until the last half-hour, it's a rather plodding process of experimentation and assimilation as Norma gains the insight and courage to seize her dreams.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
26
Horn From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story (2018)

John DeFore

Anderson... is attentive to chronology and to Butterfield's legacy, but isn't making the kind of film that might win the artist new fans or magically transport older ones back to the moment when he was at the top of his field.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
27
I Still See You (2018)

Frank Scheck

I Still See You is painful to watch, and having to learn all the new jargon only makes it feel like an academic chore.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
28
Stella's Last Weekend (2018)

Frank Scheck

Stella's Last Weekend seems like it was more fun to make than watch.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
29
House of Hummingbird (Beolsae) (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

A warm, complex and hopeful slice of teen life.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
30
Savage (Xue bao) (2018)

Clarence Tsui

Taut, stylish and straightforward.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
31
Giant (1956)

James Powers

Including a fine performance from Elizabeth Taylor, great acting from Rock Hudson and a piercing portrayal from James Dean. Giant stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the great ones.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
32
A River Runs Through It (1992)

Michael Rechtshaffen

Redford directs with a fluid grace... to capture the idyllic, light-drenched aura of Maclean's early childhood memories. Even the seemingly unexciting fly-fishing sequences take on a magical air worthy of Spielberg.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
33
A Star Is Born (1937)

The Hollywood Reporter Staff

Does the industry a marked service. Without missing its comedies or its fascinations of whitewashing its follies and its heartbreaks it contrives to give an essentially authentic and a wholesome portrait.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
34
A Star is Born (1976)

Jean Hoelscher

Barbra Streisand's fantastic singing voice shows to the best advantage her incredible talent. The movie falls short of greatness, but it compares more than favorably not only with the usual concert film but also with the current love stories on film.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
35
Remember? (Ricordi?) (2018)

Deborah Young

An ambitious tour-de-force about love, time and memory.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
36
Working Woman (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

A slow burning but ultimately empowering drama that works despite a lack of the bigger, louder, more outwardly emotional moments it could have succumbed to.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
37
House of My Fathers (2018)

Clarence Tsui

A poetic allegory on war and its consequences.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
38
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)

Frank Scheck

It should please younger fans of the books who will have no problem with its rudimentary storyline all too repetitive of the original. But it does feel like a missed opportunity to elevate the valuable franchise to bigger and more imaginative heights.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
39
Signal Rock (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

A gorgeous portrait of despair and delight.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
40
The Cold Blue (2018)

Frank Scheck

An important companion piece to Wyler's classic and a powerful stand-alone film.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
41
The Prey (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

A lean, mean bit of pulp entertainment that will most definitely satisfy fans of the genre.
Posted Oct 9, 2018
42
After Everything (Shotgun) (2018)

Frank Scheck

Featuring terrific performances by its young leads, the film marks an auspicious feature debut for its writers/directors.
Posted Oct 9, 2018
43
Sadie (2018)

Frank Scheck

Excellent performances and vivid atmosphere compensate for the plot contrivances.
Posted Oct 9, 2018
44
The Scoundrels (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

The Scoundrels is peppered with colorful performances and zips by so economically there's no time to register its flaws.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
45
Fly by Night (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

A bloody, vivid, polished crime thriller with style to burn and a grim, fatalistic heart, and which adheres to its genre conventions while managing to make them seem fresh and unpredictable.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
46
The Rib (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

Far from perfect, but perfectly necessary.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
47
American Dreamer (2018)

Sheri Linden

A tightly wound, mostly believable mix of genre riffs and real-world nightmares.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
48
Ten Years Japan (2018)

Elizabeth Kerr

The film lacks the urgency and fired up political inspiration of the original, which emerged from the Umbrella Movement, but it makes up for it in intensely Kore-eda-esque whimsy and gentle emotion.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
49
Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It (2014)

Frank Scheck

Anyone not already initiated into the Trailer Park Boys cult will find themselves at a loss, both amusement and information-wise, since familiarity with their antics is assumed. Suffice it to say that few newcomers will be converted by this latest outing.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
50
The Family Business: Trump and Taxes (2018)

Frank Scheck

As with The Fourth Estate, the short documentary illustrates how the journalistic sausage is made, which in this case was through an awful lot of hard work.
Posted Oct 8, 2018