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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Brexit (2019)
That Graham has managed to make a functioning drama out of Brexit, let alone such a riveting one, feels a little bit miraculous.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
2
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
True to its origins, Alita is a living cartoon of a film, which only makes its ridiculousness easier to absorb.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
3
High Flying Bird (2019)
Soderbergh's unorthodox film release and cheap, idiosyncratic shooting style are ideal fits for the director's fascinating, speculative story about the future of the NBA.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
4
Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)
5
Cold Pursuit (2019)
6
7
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Velvet Buzzsaw is a pretty soulless piece of art about the soullessness of art; but that doesn't mean it can't have a little fun proving its point.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
8
Has the passionate, thunderous, and occasionally weepy tone of a good barroom eulogy.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
9
Vice (2018)
10
Untouchable (2019)
11
Never Look Away (2019)
12
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
It's a film that somehow takes one of the oldest "chosen one" narratives around-the story of King Arthur-and finds something fresh in its tale of heroism.
Posted Jan 24, 2019
13
Serenity (2019)
Serenity may not make it onto many critics' top-10 lists come the end of 2019. But it's certain to be one of the more unforgettable viewing experiences of the year.
Posted Jan 24, 2019
14
Fyre (2019)
The movie also scrapes away the sheen of the flamboyant "influencer" lifestyle that McFarland leveraged to sell tickets and hook investors.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
15
Glass (2019)
The latest from the director is a singularly strange and meta sequel that's bound to infuriate all but his most devoted fans.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
16
Piripkura (2018)
Marries tremendous moral complexity to the cinematographic sophistication of The Blair Witch Project.
Posted Jan 2, 2019
17
Aquaman (2018)
Aquaman works because it isn't laughing at itself-it's both joyously whimsical and confident in its own sea-worthiness.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
18
They Shall Not Grow Old (2019)
The technology Jackson deploys is so advanced that the documentary, which has been colorized and enhanced, captures a surprising degree of character and realism.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
19
The Mule (2018)
This movie is as much a eulogy for a country that Eastwood sees as slowly crumbling as it is for the life Earl chose to lead.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
20
If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)
If Beale Street Could Talk is an impressive, mature, and determined work that ably reaches the great heights it sets for itself.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
21
The latest entry in a fully saturated genre that somehow, through sheer creative gumption, does something new.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
22
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Mary Queen of Scots is a tawdry soap opera that insists it's an intelligent political thriller.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
23
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
The film feels painfully incomplete, from its frequently told story to its weak visuals.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
24
Creed II (2018)
Creed II fits the mold of every Rocky sequel-competent, entertaining, and a little passionless
Posted Dec 21, 2018
25
The Favourite (2018)
Despite its period setting, The Favourite just might be Lanthimos's most trenchant and relevant work yet.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
26
Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2018)
Shoplifters is littered with wry humor and is refreshingly free of judgment.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
27
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Mary Poppins Returns serves as a reminder that, for all its global scope and hegemonic ambition, Disney still has a little magic left up its sleeve.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
28
Roma (2018)
Roma captures, as well as any film I have seen, the spirit of "magical realism," without ever hinting at the supernatural. Its magic is pure, stunning cinematic technique.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
29
Green Book (2018)
First-rate execution can't solve all of a film's problems, but Mortensen and Ali offer a reminder that it can solve an awful lot of them.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
30
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Though the stories are individually captivating and very much worth the price of admission-see the film on a big screen if you can-they fit together awkwardly.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
31
Springsteen on Broadway (2018)
An absorbing viewing experience, one that comes with the warm, accumulating feeling that while under Bruce Springsteen's tutelage, everything makes sense.
Posted Dec 17, 2018
32
Dumplin' (2018)
33
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Ralph Breaks the Internet is, without a doubt, the best film made about the lives of computer programs since the Wachowskis' Matrix sequels; I mean this as a glowing compliment.
Posted Nov 21, 2018
34
Widows (2018)
Widows is methodical in its imagery and gracefully written; it's also a suspenseful blast, best seen with the biggest, most animated audience possible.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
35
The Crimes of Grindelwald is mostly table-setting, which can't sustain an entire movie-even one serving a fan base as passionate as this one.
Posted Nov 13, 2018
36
Outlaw King (2018)
Outlaw King is a necessary antidote, one that might catch audiences off guard at first before burrowing into the mind through sheer, mucky tenacity.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
37
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The Girl in the Spider's Web, Lisbeth Salander saves the day, and she looks cool doing it. But this is a story so slick that she'd be rolling her eyes if she watched it.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
38
The Front Runner (2018)
Reitman is tripped up in his attempts to spin Hart's story into something more symbolic.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
39
Burning (Beoning) (2018)
It's a movie about men who simmer with anxiety, resentment, and creative desire, and how those feelings can boil over in unexpected and horrifying ways.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
40
Suspiria (2018)
A real test of the audience's spirit, but it all builds to an indescribably insane denouement that challenges, and vociferously rejects, much of what has come before.
Posted Oct 23, 2018
41
Halloween (2018)
In its last 30 minutes, Halloween finally stops playing the hits and tries something really different. I won't spoil beyond that, but it works.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
42
Mid90s (2018)
Hill may well turn out to have a growing talent for directing. But he needs to match his subtler insights to a script that feels less derivative.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
43
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Van Groeningen methodically demonstrates how that can count for little in the face of crystal meth, but that's the only takeaway from Beautiful Boy that felt fresh.
Posted Oct 13, 2018
44
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
There might be too much going on, but as the final act descends into carnage, Goddard is at least trying to say something.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
45
First Man (2018)
First Man is about Armstrong's landmark achievement, but it's just as much about a country's grinding, maniacal fixation on getting him there.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
46
Hold the Dark (2018)
The film never coheres outside of those flashes, ultimately delivering a disappointing, confusing, but undeniably fascinating experience.
Posted Sep 28, 2018
47
Free Solo (2018)
It's this profound, human tension that makes Free Solo such a gripping and rewarding documentary to watch.
Posted Sep 28, 2018
48
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Lowery's film is an easy-breezy celebration of Redford's charisma and a fitting swan song given that it might be his final on-camera role.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
49
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
It has the painterly visuals of a classic film, but its lead characters are black-hatted villains whose road to redemption is mostly motivated by exhaustion rather than guilt.
Posted Sep 22, 2018
50
Life Itself (2018)