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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Landline (2017)
The show belongs to Quinn's Ali, with a strong assist from Slate and Falco.
Posted Jul 26, 2017
2
Dunkirk (2017)
All these frantic bits and pieces come together under Nolan's narrative scheme to form a stirring panorama.
Posted Jul 26, 2017
3
Very few crafts technicians rate their own documentary biographies. Harold and Lillian deserve it.
Posted Jul 19, 2017
4
Lady Macbeth (2017)
5
13 Minutes (Elser) (2017)
6
A Ghost Story (2017)
7
The Big Sick (2017)
See it now, don't wait for it to become a cable TV series. A comatose love interest is definitely anti-episodic.
Posted Jul 6, 2017
8
The Little Hours (2017)
It's fun for about the first ten minutes.
Posted Jul 6, 2017
9
Manifesto (2017)
As tiresome an evening at the movies as any humorless drone could ever hope to inflict on an audience.
Posted Jun 28, 2017
10
The Beguiled (2017)
11
The Book of Henry (2017)
12
Harmonium (Fuchi ni tatsu) (2017)
13
Slack Bay (Ma loute) (2017)
European films used to get away with Slack Bay's brand of sustained absurdism, but today somehow that unrelieved silliness grates on the ear as well as the eye.
Posted Jun 14, 2017
14
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
15
[An] effervescent new romantic comedy.
Posted May 17, 2017
16
[A] strikingly well produced profile.
Posted May 17, 2017
17
Hounds of Love (2017)
Dan Luscombe's music and Michael McDermott's freeze-frame tracking cinematography are both chillingly effective.
Posted May 10, 2017
18
Obit (2017)
Gould's surprisingly entertaining doc introduces us to what must be the best-staffed obit department in the country.
Posted May 10, 2017
19
A Quiet Passion (2017)
20
Prepare to be dazzled.
Posted Apr 28, 2017
21
22
The Promise (2017)
The Promise hits hard and never lets up.
Posted Apr 21, 2017
23
Norman is highly recommended.
Posted Apr 19, 2017
24
The Lost City of Z (2017)
25
Actors Gallienne and Canet handle their roles ably, but Cézanne et Moi seems to skim the surface of its era searching for a bromance that doesn't really materialize.
Posted Apr 12, 2017
26
Colossal (2017)
27
The Assignment (2017)
The Assignment is an arguably watchable but eminently dismissible hunk of junk, strictly for late-night consumption.
Posted Apr 5, 2017
28
The writing, direction, performances, and emotional subtlety of this film are a wonder to behold.
Posted Mar 31, 2017
29
For Here Or To Go? (2017)
The result is a movie that's neither serious nor humorous enough, as if no one involved could tell the difference.
Posted Mar 29, 2017
30
Song to Song (2017)
The investigation into Terrence Malick's fall from grace continues with his latest, Song to Song, a film very much like Malick's previous one, Knight of Cups.
Posted Mar 22, 2017
31
Wilson (2017)
The nicest surprise in Wilson is juvie actress Isabella Amara as Claire, the missing piece of the emotional puzzle Wilson constructs for himself.
Posted Mar 22, 2017
32
Raw (2017)
Ducournau's school-days guignol, with all its faults, is still more intelligent and provocative than ninety percent of the junk out there.
Posted Mar 22, 2017
33
Cardinal X (2017)
Wang's writing is better than her directing.
Posted Mar 16, 2017
34
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
The big guy actually functions as the balance of nature on Skull Island. If he dies, the place becomes a Jurassic Park-style resort attraction. So the world needs Kong.
Posted Mar 16, 2017
35
Sometimes all it takes to plunge us head over heels into a melodrama is a face, in this instance the face of actress María Casares.
Posted Mar 9, 2017
36
Donald Cried (2017)
37
Margy Kinmonth's illuminating new documentary... takes us back to a time and place when visual artists were at the forefront of a world-shaking re-ordering of priorities.
Posted Mar 1, 2017
38
Sometimes the simplest and most predictable stories can resonate far past their apparent limitations. My Life as a Zucchini is one of those.
Posted Mar 1, 2017
39
Bitter Harvest (2017)
Hoover and Mendeluk's mini-epic is neither odd nor epic enough to make much of a splash.
Posted Feb 23, 2017
40
The Great Wall (2017)
The Great Wall would be a bloated, cheap-looking, wholly synthetic mega-production no matter who acts in it.
Posted Feb 21, 2017
41
A United Kingdom (2017)
42
A Cure For Wellness (2017)
43
The Salesman (Forushande) (2017)
First-class writing with acting to match in an ultra-realistic setting.
Posted Feb 8, 2017
44
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
45
Toni Erdmann (2016)
In Toni Erdmann, the sandpaper is coated with honey and the protagonists only want to prove they're right, on their way to ultimate family happiness.
Posted Jan 25, 2017
46
Gold (2017)
In the end the filmmakers and actors get bogged down in a futile search for something even more elusive than gold: good writing.
Posted Jan 25, 2017
47
20th Century Women (2017)
48
Neruda (2016)
Gnecco, García, and Morán's performances are succinct and beguiling, Larraín's touch is graceful.
Posted Jan 20, 2017
49
Silence (2017)
Scorsese's heavy-handedness hampers what might have been a startling new entry in the director's religious casebook. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Posted Jan 12, 2017
50
Paterson (2016)