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Title/Year
Author
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It's unafraid to embrace the expansive potential of its genre, to make each new location, costume, and alien creature feel like the wildest version of itself.
Posted Jul 20, 2017
2
A Ghost Story (2017)
Lowery's greatest success is in keeping this intentionally spare story from feeling like a gimmick.
Posted Jul 14, 2017
3
Lady Macbeth (2017)
One of the best, and most surprising, films of the year.
Posted Jul 14, 2017
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5
The Little Hours (2017)
6
Tour De Pharmacy (2017)
It takes the thorny subject of doping in professional cycling and turns it into pure, gleeful mayhem.
Posted Jul 10, 2017
7
Baby Driver (2017)
Put in your metaphorical earbuds, turn the key in the ignition, and enjoy the cinematic highlight of the summer so far.
Posted Jul 10, 2017
8
Michael Bay has promised that this is the last Transformers movie he will direct, which is no small relief. It will not, alas, be the last Transformers movie.
Posted Jul 9, 2017
9
Cars 3 (2017)
Corporate synergy, as they say, is a cruel mistress.
Posted Jul 9, 2017
10
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
11
Okja (2017)
It's a sublime tale of the value of humanity, and the horrors we often have to suffer through to hold on to that.
Posted Jun 30, 2017
12
The Big Sick (2017)
The recent death of the American rom-com has been much remarked upon, but it only takes one great film to zap it back into life. The Big Sick just might be that film.
Posted Jun 24, 2017
13
The Beguiled (2017)
Each frame of The Beguiled is a wonder to look at, from the candle-lit dinner-time conferences to the angelic portraits of John, who's frequently bathed in heavenly light.
Posted Jun 24, 2017
14
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
Did she? Didn't she? Much as I enjoyed My Cousin Rachel at times, by the end I was no longer sure that I particularly cared.
Posted Jun 16, 2017
15
Baywatch (2017)
16
In Marvel lingo, Guardians 2 feels like a great six-issue arc, the kind of storytelling that used to be the backbone of superhero comics.
Posted Jun 16, 2017
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18
Land of Mine (Under Sandet) (2017)
Most of the film's power and interest comes from the ethical discussion it inspires.
Posted Jun 16, 2017
19
Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) (2016)
Fire at Sea is a powerful, and beautifully shot, look at the migrant crisis-one that manages to subvert viewer expectations of what has become for many a familiar news subject.
Posted Jun 16, 2017
20
My Scientology Movie (2017)
21
Maudie (2017)
Maudie's biggest success is Walsh's interest in depicting the environment from which art springs, rather than laying out some simple emotional cause for its generation.
Posted Jun 16, 2017
22
The Book of Henry (2017)
The Book of Henry is the equivalent of eating a cake baked with salt instead of sugar, or listening to a Beatles song where the lyrics are in Esperanto.
Posted Jun 15, 2017
23
Hounds of Love (2017)
If you can stomach its content, Hounds of Love is an undoubtedly effective work, an impressive calling card for a director sure to attract the eye of Hollywood.
Posted Jun 9, 2017
24
Wakefield (2017)
It isn't the dull midlife crisis movie it initially presents itself as. But it also doesn't do enough to lurch into more nightmarish territory.
Posted Jun 9, 2017
25
War Machine (2017)
War Machine is a failure, but could perhaps have been a great film if it had tried a little harder to pick a tone.
Posted Jun 9, 2017
26
Band Aid (2017)
The film too often struggles to find a balance between being searing and charming; at best, it's a notable curio, one Lister-Jones may well build on for her next feature.
Posted Jun 9, 2017
27
It Comes At Night (2017)
A fairly straightforward post-apocalyptic story, tightly focused on human torment, but suffused with surprising, undeniably atmospheric sights and sounds.
Posted Jun 9, 2017
28
The Mummy (2017)
As the beginning of an ongoing series, it's an utter bore, one with only the faintest grasp of what made Universal's monster pictures so iconic all those decades ago.
Posted Jun 9, 2017
29
The result, directed by Danny Gold, is a documentary that's loose, unfocused, and utterly charming -- much like its subjects.
Posted Jun 7, 2017
30
Wonder Woman (2017)
31
The subtitle of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is "Dead Men Tell No Tales." The moral of the movie, alas, is that the same cannot be said of dead franchises.
Posted Jun 2, 2017
32
What stands out isn't the audacity of her jokes, but how relaxed and conversational she is, and the endless well of charm she draws from.
Posted May 31, 2017
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34
Alien: Covenant (2017)
This may not be a movie that reinvents the wheel. But it's one that knows how to make it roll.
Posted May 25, 2017
35
Dirty Dancing (2017)
It's less the time of your life and more three hours you'll never get back.
Posted May 24, 2017
36
The Lovers (2017)
The Lovers, written and directed by Azazel Jacobs, is a strangely gripping movie mostly because of its aversion to over-explaining.
Posted May 16, 2017
37
The Wizard of Lies (2017)
The Wizard of Lies... doesn't try to either understand or humanize Madoff, but all the same it manages to be an intimate, unsettling portrait of a borderline sociopath.
Posted May 16, 2017
38
The Dinner (2017)
The Dinner is two hours of unrelenting nastiness, steeped in the trappings of extreme wealth and the toxic privilege it affords.
Posted May 12, 2017
39
Snatched (2017)
Snatched is a trip very much like the one it portrays: one that, in the end, does a pretty poor job of putting the "fun" in "unrefundable."
Posted May 12, 2017
40
Unforgettable (2017)
Among the less-noted cardinal rules of cinema is that any movie that takes the title Unforgettable will prove to be anything but.
Posted May 12, 2017
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Get Me Roger Stone (2017)
An incisive portrait of how Stone's brand of dirty tricks -- in which the only motivating factor in politics is to win -- came to dominate the current state of disarray.
Posted May 11, 2017
43
What This Drug May Kill You does do is put a human face on a full-blown disaster, which in turn helps to de-stigmatize addiction.
Posted May 2, 2017
44
The Circle (2017)
As a satire, The Circle might have been worth a few giggles, but as a deadly serious drama, it's laughable in an entirely different way.
Posted May 2, 2017
45
Risk (2017)
Risk is an incredibly gripping work, one made with an unprecedented level of access to Assange, but for all its intimacy, it still struggles to nail down its target.
Posted May 2, 2017
46
Casting JonBenét (2017)
Casting JonBenét is a curiosity, but an arresting one-an uncomfortable 80 minutes spent with strangers who are undeniably difficult to look away from.
Posted Apr 26, 2017
47
Winfrey's humane and riveting performance may make this adaptation worth a watch.
Posted Apr 24, 2017
48
A Quiet Passion (2017)
A brilliant chronicling of a life lived quietly, one that is sweeping in its emotional depth rather than its narrative scope.
Posted Apr 21, 2017
49
Free Fire (2017)
Free Fire is a pure slog-a loud, brutish, gritty mini-spectacle that's impressive only in its devotion to simplicity.
Posted Apr 20, 2017
50
The Lost City of Z (2017)