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Rating
Title/Year
Author
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2.5/5
Mortal Engines (2018)
It's filled to the point of overflowing with stories, challenges, mysteries, and spectacle - some of which make for a more compelling film than others.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
2
2.5/5
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
3
3/5
Aquaman (2018)
Despite the nagging flaw that is Aquaman's hyper-extended plot, the movie delivers in its action sequences and its bright visuals.
Posted Dec 11, 2018
4
Divide and Conquer is not content to skim the surface of Ailes's life.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
5
2/5
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
You have to wade through a whole bunch of effects that feel ... abandoned before they were fully baked.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
6
3/5
Dumplin' (2018)
Dumplin' still manages to be entertaining, and if it hammers on its message a little too often and a little too clumsily, it's still a fun romp at heart.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
7
The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
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10
Cricket on the Hearth (1967)
There's blindness caused by grief, melodramatic plot twists by the bushel, and a cricket narrator. But it's all a little bland, with songs that last way too long.
Posted Dec 4, 2018
11
The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
12
Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)
It's confused and more than a little boring. And the Christmas connection is very nebulous.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
13
14
The Conformist (1970)
It's easy to overlook how stark The Conformist's political and allegorical message is because it's just so damn beautiful.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
15
Jack Frost (1979)
Here's a special to show your kids if you want to teach them life is full of crushing disappointments.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
16
4/5
So mind-bending is its big twist.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
17
2.5/5
There are no wolves!
Posted Nov 30, 2018
18
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
KHNH drips with color and cheer.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
19
4/5
20
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
In its best moments, Shiny New Year lives up to the howling madness at the center of all Rankin/Bass.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
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22
2.5/5
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
The masculine Jesus was all I could think about when watching The Christmas Chronicles... This is a Santa who, in the parlance of the times, can get it.
Posted Nov 26, 2018
23
Leprechaun's Christmas Gold (1981)
This is perhaps peak Rankin/Bass insanity. Roughly two-thirds of the script is exposition...
Posted Nov 21, 2018
24
4/5
The Favourite (2018)
The Favourite's trio of leads - Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone - turn in some of the best performances of the year.
Posted Nov 21, 2018
25
3.5/5
Creed II (2018)
26
4/5
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
As bold and smart a story about what it means to live online as any we've ever come up with...
Posted Nov 21, 2018
27
4.5/5
Roma (2018)
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Green Book (2018)
Borrowing the name of such a fraught piece of history and making a feel-good comedy about it, then failing to do that piece of history justice, is at best a misstep.
Posted Nov 19, 2018
30
3/5
The Princess Switch (2018)
Put it this way: I wasn't always positive which character I was watching onscreen, but I always knew that whoever she was, I was rooting for her.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
31
3.5/5
Widows (2018)
A cast this stacked can't help but generate glory.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
32
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Bohemian Rhapsody is a movie that consciously tries to position a gay man at its center while strategically disengaging with the "gay" part as much as it can...
Posted Nov 16, 2018
33
3.5/5
CAM (2018)
Ultimately as cheeky as it is scary, Cam is a seduction disguised as a sermon, and it's all the better for it.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
34
Amazing Grace (2018)
People have been listening to Amazing Grace for decades, but watching the album get made is a full-on experience, body and soul.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
35
3/5
Outlaw King (2018)
For what it is, Outlaw King is plenty entertaining, with a hint of humanity in Robert and Elizabeth's courtship.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
36
3.5/5
The Grinch (2018)
This movie's heart, and its story, is definitely in the right place.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
37
The greatest offense of the God's Not Dead series may be its failure to imagine for its audience what a truly radical belief in a living God would look like.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
38
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
It's a perceptive, complex, and sensitive depiction that at times feels like a psychological thriller, and Gyllenhaal shines in the role.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
39
2/5
The Holiday Calendar (2018)
40
1.5/5
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
It takes a certain degree of, um, talent to make a crashingly dull movie about Freddie Mercury, one of the least drab humans who ever lived.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
41
4.5/5
Shirkers (2018)
Deeply personal, fabulously engrossing.
Posted Oct 29, 2018
42
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh (2018)
It has the plenty of the dick jokes you'd expect, but it's also (mostly) packed with the earnestness, honesty, and weirdness you find in his best work.
Posted Oct 29, 2018
43
4/5
Suspiria (2018)
It's impossible to ignore how skillfully Guadagnino dove into the material and came up with something all his own.
Posted Oct 23, 2018
44
H2: Halloween II (2009)
Extends this interest in psychology to Laurie Strode (played this time by Scout Taylor-Compton), plumbing the emotional and psychological connection between her and Michael.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
45
Halloween (2007)
Because it's still about Michael Myers, it all feels epic and larger than life in a way few of those other films do.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
46
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Stay away unless you like kitschy early internet nostalgia and lots of blurry found-footage trickery.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
47
Halloween H20 (1998)
H20 is far more character-driven than any of its predecessors.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
48
49
This movie is a dirty trick on all Halloween fans.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
50
Halloween II (1981)
As films go, however, Halloween 2 isn't very good.
Posted Oct 19, 2018