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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
B+
The Price of Everything (2018)
Follow the money--in the art world as well as anywhere else.
Posted Oct 16, 2018
2
B+
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Melissa McCarthy as you've never seen her before: stunning.
Posted Oct 14, 2018
3
B
The Guilty (Den skyldige) (2018)
A Danish nail-biter, though all the action takes place inside a police station.
Posted Oct 14, 2018
4
C-
Change in the Air (2018)
There is no change that I could see.
Posted Oct 14, 2018
5
B+
Free Solo (2018)
Rock climbing is a one person sport yet Alex Hannold, who seems to have a death wish, makes the action as fascinating as a baseball world series.
Posted Sep 23, 2018
6
B+
All About Nina (2018)
Lots of comic moments, great performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Posted Sep 23, 2018
7
A-
One Wild Moment (2015)
A male fantasy is realized in another great performance from Vincent Cassel.
Posted Sep 23, 2018
8
B+
Colette (2018)
Keira Knightley's awards-worthy performance allows the film to soar both emotionally and intellectually.
Posted Sep 16, 2018
9
B+
Love, Gilda (2018)
10
C+
Bel Canto (2018)
A goofy plot virtually impossible to take seriously.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
11
C+
Where Hands Touch (2018)
Simplistic, saccharine script plus the absurdity of everyone's speaking English. Even on Amazon Prime episodes like "Jack Ryan," the Arabs speak Arabic.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
12
B+
Science Fair (2018)
These young people show that surprisingly, there is hope for the future.
Posted Sep 9, 2018
13
B
Museum (Museo) (2018)
A humorous look at a loser who steals Aztec treasures from Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology though there's no real chance that he can fence them
Posted Sep 7, 2018
14
B+
Active Measures (2018)
15
C
Support the Girls (2018)
For the most part, a plotless story.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
16
B-
Papillon (2018)
Respectable sequel to the 1973 road-and-buddy prison drama.
Posted Aug 20, 2018
17
B+
A Whale of a Tale (2018)
18
A-
The Wife (2018)
19
B+
Skate Kitchen (2018)
20
B+
The Swan (Svanurinn) (2018)
A 9-year-old sent for the summer to rural Iceland learns more about nature than she could absorb in any school book.
Posted Aug 5, 2018
21
B+
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Helena Howard as title character is one of the great debut performances in recent years.
Posted Aug 5, 2018
22
B
A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)
Don't even think about committing a crime in Thailand.
Posted Aug 5, 2018
23
B
24
B+
Gavagai (2018)
A delightfully quirky road-and-buddy movie taking place in a remote area of Norway.
Posted Jul 28, 2018
25
B
Rondo (2018)
Rivers of blood stain the glossy wood floors in a sleazily satisfying thriller.
Posted Jul 27, 2018
26
A-
Among the most spectacular action pictures of all time.
Posted Jul 24, 2018
27
B+
The Bleeding Edge (2018)
Your orthopedist doesn't want you to see this.
Posted Jul 22, 2018
28
B+
Puzzle (2018)
Save the $200/hour on psychotherapy. Invest a couple of bucks on a jigsaw puzzle and turn from repressed mouse to confident woman.
Posted Jul 22, 2018
29
B+
The Captain (Der Hauptmann) (2018)
A stunning look at how the right overcoat can turn a schlemiel into a respected leader.
Posted Jul 22, 2018
30
B+
The two assassinations in the title are in the service of a film that allows Sam Elliott beautifully to convey the loneliness and melancholy of old age.
Posted Jul 20, 2018
31
B
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
More energy and imagination than the 2008 "Mamma Mia!"
Posted Jul 17, 2018
32
C
Damascus Cover (2018)
Casablanca, Morocco is a more interesting character than anyone in this picture.
Posted Jul 15, 2018
33
C+
Generation Wealth (2018)
Presumes to understand American by focusing on extremes.
Posted Jul 15, 2018
34
C+
Skyscraper (2018)
Awesome but repetitious visual effects cannot compensate for the film's unclear plot and witless dialogue.
Posted Jul 10, 2018
35
B+
Path of Blood (2018)
Consider this a primary source examining the methods of terrorists in the Middle East.
Posted Jul 8, 2018
36
B+
Eighth Grade (2018)
Highlights Elsie Fisher's stunning performance as an awkward 13-year-old who tries to overcome her shyness by posting videos of advice to her peers.
Posted Jul 8, 2018
37
C+
Shock and Awe (2018)
A schmaltzy look at the workings of a syndicate determined to expose the U.S. mistake in Iraq while one of its subsidiaries refuses to print it.
Posted Jul 8, 2018
38
A-
A shocking look at how preserving a family's reputation appears to allow a young woman's father and brother to contemplate murdering their daughter.
Posted Jul 8, 2018
39
B
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Trippy hallucinations in an imaginative tale.
Posted Jul 1, 2018
40
B
Custody (Jusqu'à la garde) (2018)
Custody battles often ends in compromises solutions but the couple in this film are out to do royal battle, the woman claiming her right to 100% custody.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
41
B+
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Will make you think next time you feel like scientifically manipulating a set of triplets.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
42
B+
The Cakemaker (2018)
A romance between a German baker and an Israeli businessman is delicious and easily digested.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
43
B+
Leave No Trace (2018)
Captures like few other films a remarkable bond between father and daughter.
Posted Jun 24, 2018
44
B
Araby (Arábia) (2018)
A partly allegorical look at an Everyman that concludes that travel is broadening.
Posted Jun 17, 2018
45
B
Boundaries (2018)
Vera Farmiga's stunning performance saves this hokum.
Posted Jun 17, 2018
46
C+
The Catcher Was A Spy (2018)
Stereotypical scenes like those taking place at night during fogs do little to enhance this old-fashioned spy melodrama.
Posted Jun 17, 2018
47
B
Eating Animals (2018)
I had hoped this doc would focus on Foer's evolution in favor of vegetarianism but instead it is a mostly a look at the way small farms have been crushed by agribusiness.
Posted Jun 11, 2018
48
B
Loving Pablo (2018)
Reasonably tense dramatization of the career of a major drug lord.
Posted Jun 10, 2018
49
B+
An iconic look at a hard-working Mexican immigrant.
Posted Jun 4, 2018
50
B+
If you eat food, you should like this look at a world-famous chef.
Posted Jun 4, 2018