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Rating
Title/Year
Author
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What Men Want (2019)
It's a diverting comedy with funny performances. But if you're looking for it to deliver on its title, move along.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
2
2.5/5
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
It doesn't really add up to much, it's darkly enjoyable as long as you're into all that.
Posted Feb 7, 2019
3
So profoundly lacking in any insight that it's hard to believe it was greenlit in an era like ours.
Posted Feb 6, 2019
4
3.5/5
Late Night (2019)
It's a breath of fresh air, a cheeky bit of entertainment that will have the side effect of prodding other star-led comedies to try a little harder.
Posted Feb 4, 2019
5
Untouchable (2019)
A vital document of women regaining control of their own narrative.
Posted Feb 4, 2019
6
Rent Live (2019)
But to make all of this even weirder, there was a live performance of Rent happening onstage - and it was awesome!
Posted Jan 28, 2019
7
2.5/5
Native Son (2019)
Progresses in fits and starts; every time you feel like you've locked into it, it seems to slam on the brakes and veer off around the corner.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
8
3/5
9
The Village (2004)
It all comes to a head... in perhaps the greatest sequence Shyamalan has ever filmed.
Posted Jan 23, 2019
10
3.5/5
Fyre (2019)
11
2/5
Fyre Fraud (2019)
It is, in essence, a think piece.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
12
The Upside (2019)
The proudly clichéd way it deals with class, race, and especially disability feel tin-eared at times.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
13
2/5
Glass (2019)
Glass feels like fan service that tries too hard to replicate earlier success, and manages to diminish both Unbreakable and Split in retrospect.
Posted Jan 9, 2019
14
2.5/5
Bird Box (2018)
The cross-cutting narrative device doesn't add much to the movie, and as it wears on, it starts to feel like it isn't totally sure what it's trying to do.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
15
4/5
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
16
2/5
The Mule (2018)
It feels, in the end, inauthentic.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
17
1.5/5
Vice (2018)
I can't figure out what Vice's motives are, or what we're meant to take away from the film.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
18
4/5
Vice (2018)
It was the supporting players who really grabbed me, especially Amy Adams (effectively blending her Drop Dead Gorgeous and The Master characters into one person)...
Posted Dec 21, 2018
19
1.5/5
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Welcome to Marwen can never overcome the question of why it exists.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
20
4/5
Marwencol (2010)
Malmberg hangs back, allowing the character of Hogancamp - rather than any contrivance or "plot" - to power the film.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
21
3.5/5
Bumblebee (2018)
Instead of staging a bombastic action cheesefest, Bumblebee self-consciously apes the style of 1980s coming-of-age stories, to great effect.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
22
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
23
2.5/5
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
24
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
25
Divide and Conquer is not content to skim the surface of Ailes's life.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
26
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
27
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
28
The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
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30
31
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
32
The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
33
Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)
It's confused and more than a little boring. And the Christmas connection is very nebulous.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
34
35
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
36
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
37
4/5
So mind-bending is its big twist.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
38
2.5/5
There are no wolves!
Posted Nov 30, 2018
39
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
KHNH drips with color and cheer.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
40
4/5
41
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
42
43
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
44
Leprechaun's Christmas Gold (1981)
This is perhaps peak Rankin/Bass insanity. Roughly two-thirds of the script is exposition...
Posted Nov 21, 2018
45
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
46
3.5/5
Creed II (2018)
47
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
48
4.5/5
Roma (2018)
49
50
Green Book (2018)