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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Speed Kills (2018)
A featureless knockoff of seemingly every sweeping true-crime movie of the past three decades.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
2
Welcome Home (2018)
3
CAM (2018)
An at-times too-elusive but overall engaging peek behind the curtain at the lives of "cam girls."
Posted Nov 14, 2018
4
Mobile Homes (2018)
But while the story's a little shaky, Poots is outstanding; and de Fontenay has a terrific eye for the details of a drifter's life.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
5
The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
First-time feature director Duncan Skiles brings some spooky atmosphere to a smart script by Christopher Ford.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
6
Anchor and Hope (2018)
There's a potentially smart and sexy lesbian dramedy at the heart of "Anchor and Hope" that gets lost amid idiosyncratic filmmaking and a lack of narrative discipline.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
7
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
8
55 Steps (2018)
The wild-haired Carter has the flashier role and, although she digs into it with gusto, she's all over the emotional map.
Posted Nov 13, 2018
9
The New Romantic (2018)
"The New Romantic" follows a very familiar arc, but the path is certainly a pleasant one, thanks to Barden's naturally ebullient performance.
Posted Nov 13, 2018
10
Outlaw King (2018)
While we likely have not seen the end of Robert the Bruce on film, this for sure is a worthy addition to the canon.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
11
Here and Now (Blue Night) (2018)
12
Dead Man (1995)
I liked the film at its original length, and I think the shortened version is Jarmusch's best movie.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
13
Weightless (2018)
14
Overlord (2018)
For anyone who ever wished "Saving Private Ryan" were more of a B-movie splatterfest, "Overlord" is the movie for you.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
15
The Grinch (2018)
16
El Angel (El ángel) (2018)
17
Lez Bomb (2018)
Overwritten and overlit, "Lez Bomb" frequently undercuts its own charms.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
18
Philosopher King (2018)
Instead, the jumble occupies an unfortunate space situated somewhere between the ponderously pretentious and the just plain ridiculous.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
19
A chatty and enjoyable but decidedly nondefinitive look at one of the cinema's most acclaimed, influential auteurs.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
20
The Divide (2018)
A sluggish film that incessantly tries but never quite hits its big-as-a-barn emotional targets.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
21
The Price of Free (2018)
[Kailash] benefits from a potent mix of compassionate heroism and hard-won hopefulness.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
22
The Delinquent Season (2018)
O'Rowe... evokes both a theatrical and literary sense of narrative, with scenes effectively unfolding like well-honed chapters.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
23
3100: Run and Become (2018)
24
The First Patient (2018)
"The First Patient" may be too graphic for some viewers. But underneath the layers of formaldehyde-treated flesh, there's real heart and deserved wonder at the human body.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
25
They Fight (2018)
A slender but affectingly penetrating documentary.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
26
27
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
The sequences illustrating the fairy tale are rendered in a handsome water color style, but even these scenes feel too slow and deliberate to enliven the film.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
28
It offers up dazzling feats of sorcery and realms of wonderment and manages to conjure the very opposite of magic.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
29
Blue My Mind (2017)
30
River Runs Red (2018)
The entertainment value's low in this pointed crime thriller, which saves its action sequences until right before the closing credits.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
31
In a Relationship (2018)
32
Pimp (2018)
"Pimp" is too one-note and grinds its way somewhat drearily to an inevitably bloody conclusion.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
33
Time Freak (2018)
A whimsical rom-com that's a little bit "Hot Tub Time Machine," and a little bit "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
Posted Nov 8, 2018
34
Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
For the film to work, we'd have to be in denial... and it's just not magical enough for that.
Posted Nov 7, 2018
35
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Using their great ability with comic dialogue, the Coens exaggerate and subvert familiar western tropes to gleeful comic effect.
Posted Nov 7, 2018
36
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
By any title, the movie is an expertly crafted slog and a disappointingly bland return for everyone's favorite Scandinavian pansexual goth-vigilante cyber-sleuth.
Posted Nov 7, 2018
37
This Is Congo (2018)
A haunting window into a deeply anarchic world too-rarely glimpsed.
Posted Nov 6, 2018
38
The Front Runner (2018)
A tip-top piece of entertainment starring Hugh Jackman as Hart and Vera Farmiga as his wife, Lee, that is as significant as it is enjoyable.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
39
Prospect (2018)
40
Nobody's Fool (2018)
Even with all of Haddish's hard work, she still can't clean up the mess she's landed in.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
41
Time Trap (2018)
42
Monster Party (2018)
Von Hoffman brings some admirable oomph, as well as a good understanding of the many ways that criminals - both poor and rich - exert dominance.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
43
Marfa Girl 2 (2018)
Clark has progressed little in the years since the film's predecessor, but he's learned one thing: at least "Marfa Girl 2" is 30 minutes shorter than the original.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
44
Weed the People (2018)
45
Mostly, this is a whirlwind trip through the origins of a phenomenon, with an eye toward explaining how America could find these ladies at once sexy and wholesome.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
46
Welcome to Mercy (2018)
The movie's too slow at the start and somewhat befuddling at the end, but for the most part it's a haunting, poignant portrait of one woman's Kafkaesque nightmare.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
47
Better Angels (2018)
Unfortunately, like the international co-production itself, they go all over the map and not in a good way.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
48
In Search of Greatness (2018)
49
The Panama Papers (2018)
a reminder of the important work reporters do in fighting abuses of power and the way that work is evolving in an increasingly fractured global landscape.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
50