The ARTery
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Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Sean Burns, Tom Meek
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
2
Green Book (2018)
Another movie that purports to explore racism in America while coddling fragile white viewers at the expense of its characters of color. It'll probably win Best Picture.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
3
Monrovia, Indiana (2018)
It's not Wiseman's style to overtly editorialize, but the film's frequent visits to a local cemetery draw a line under what's already obvious: This place is dying.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
4
Museum (Museo) (2018)
A slippery meditation on questions of ownership, heritage and history as plunder. It's also very funny.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
5
Wanda (1971)
To watch 'Wanda' today is to be knocked over anew by the film's unsettled emotional terrain, which slips and shifts beneath your feet from scene to scene.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
6
Mid90s (2018)
Wispy and underwhelming.
Posted Oct 24, 2018
7
Halloween (2018)
It only took them forty years to finally make a decent 'Halloween' sequel.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
8
First Man (2018)
9
A Star Is Born (2018)
This is the kind of movie everybody says they don't make anymore.
Posted Oct 4, 2018
10
I Am Not a Witch (2018)
One of the year's very best films. A blast of absurdist outrage that's seriously funny until all of the sudden it's not anymore.
Posted Sep 28, 2018
11
Blaze (2018)
A richly ambivalent film about artistic expression as its own reward and the bad romance of our most destructive impulses.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
12
Lizzie (2018)
It's a one-note movie and that note is room tone.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
13
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Fragmented, occasionally frustrating and ultimately ecstatic.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
14
Mandy (2018)
The movie isn't just set in 1983, it feels like a memory of something you might have watched that year on late night cable after your parents fell asleep.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
15
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2018)
So quick bright things come to confusion.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
16
Support the Girls (2018)
17
Never Goin' Back (2018)
Screamingly funny and unexpectedly quite tender. It's like "Beaches," but with bumps of blow and weed butter.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
18
Showgirls (1995)
A film so exquisitely made can't possibly be this incompetent, or can it?
Posted Aug 18, 2018
19
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
This summer's most brashly entertaining movie is also the most terrifying film of the year. It leaves your sides aching from laughter and your stomach twisted in knots.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
20
Nico, 1988 (2018)
It mostly plays as a gentle human comedy about life on the road with a high-maintenance former legend, like a slowed-down My Favorite Year on smack.
Posted Aug 7, 2018
21
The Outsiders (1983)
Watching it again recently I found all of Coppola's cornball flourishes to be rather endearing, even generous.
Posted Jul 31, 2018
22
Breathtaking on the level of execution, if not inspiration.
Posted Jul 30, 2018
23
If the movie accomplishes anything it will at least make everyone who watches it a better tipper.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
24
Van Sant shuffles around pages from the inspirational biopic playbook into something a bit trickier and a lot more rewarding.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
25
The King (2018)
A metaphor in search of a movie, it's an incoherent chop suey of big ideas and overfamiliar biography, positioning Elvis as a representation of everything and nothing all at once.
Posted Jul 11, 2018
26
Zama (2018)
An absurdist folly pitched somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett.
Posted Jul 11, 2018
27
Zodiac (2007)
It's a movie for masochists, and for the most part enthralling.
Posted Jul 11, 2018
28
Summer of Sam (1999)
One of Spike Lee's most dynamic pictures, so electric and overflowing with energy it's damn near exhausting.
Posted Jul 11, 2018
29
Feels more like one of those off-brand, cheapo sequels from the 1980s than a modern franchise behemoth. This might be the shoddiest-looking $170 million movie I've ever seen.
Posted Jun 22, 2018
30
Streets of Fire (1984)
An extravagantly stylized pulp burlesque that is at once an objectively lousy picture and just about the coolest damn thing I've ever seen.
Posted Jun 22, 2018
31
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Neville's documentary isn't so much about a life revisited as it is about a man on a mission.
Posted Jun 7, 2018
32
Ocean's 8 (2018)
One of those pleasant, Sunday afternoon diversions you leave playing on cable TV in the background while you're doing something else.
Posted Jun 7, 2018
33
A big, boisterous jumble of mixed metaphors and dizzy positivity.
Posted Jun 1, 2018
34
First Reformed (2018)
A major work by a cinema giant, urgently reckoning with issues both current and eternal.
Posted May 24, 2018
35
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
A breezy summer entertainment that benefits from high spirits and low expectations.
Posted May 23, 2018
36
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
It's a movie of wall-to-wall depravity and profound spiritual longing, at once one of the dirtiest and most deeply religious pictures I've ever seen.
Posted May 17, 2018
37
It's a prismatic portrait, albeit an occasionally confusing one. Some of the footage feels revelatory and some of it just seems random.
Posted Apr 19, 2018
38
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
39
The Look of Silence (2015)
40
The Martian (2015)
Scott only gets it half right, but the science lecture up to the go-for-broke finale, is scintillating in its own cerebral right.
Posted Apr 16, 2018
41
Steve Jobs (2015)
[Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle] freely compress and embellish and bite into something piquant and tart.
Posted Apr 16, 2018
42
The Peacemaker (2018)
One of the essential keys to the film's slow, entwining charm, beyond O'Malley's intoxicatingly idiosyncratic personality, is the effusive patience demonstrated by Demo.
Posted Apr 16, 2018
43
The Hateful Eight (2015)
[The Hateful Eight] is what you'd expect and hope for in a Tarantino film, but by the edgy auteur's barometer, it's a lesser cut.
Posted Apr 16, 2018
44
The Witch (2016)
There's plenty that beguiles in Robert Eggers' moody film The Witch.
Posted Apr 13, 2018
45
Patriots Day (2017)
46
Live By Night (2017)
47
I Am Jane Doe (2017)
[I Am Jane Doe] covers a lot of terrain competently and comprehensively.
Posted Apr 13, 2018
48
Free Fire (2017)
Wheatley has always had a nose for unsavory sorts. And with his embarrassment of riches in "Free Fire," we all get to cash in.
Posted Apr 13, 2018
49
Alien: Covenant (2017)
50
mother! (2017)