Lainey Gossip
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Sarah Marrs
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Serenity (2019)
Serenity is a disaster, but it's so bad it crosses into fascinating.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
2
The Vanishing (2019)
Pretty okay.
Posted Jan 21, 2019
3
Glass (2019)
This Glass is half empty.
Posted Jan 21, 2019
4
...demonstrates the any-person nature of heroes with cleverness and heart.
Posted Dec 28, 2018
5
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
A revisionist Western road movie comedy with a heaping side of existential drama and great performances.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
6
Roma (2018)
Roma is small life drama writ large.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
7
Dumplin' (2018)
Cheesy, schmaltzy, weirdly shallow for a film that Is Making A Point, Dumplin' is the worst of the Netflix factory line...and yet, at the same time, it's impossible to dislike it.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
8
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
...trying to update a medieval story for modern times doesn't quite work. But at least Mary Queen of Scots is watchable.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
9
Aquaman (2018)
I'm not saying Aquaman is good. But it is extremely watchable, totally insane good time.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
10
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
A kitschy Lynchian dream.
Posted Dec 11, 2018
11
The Favourite (2018)
The Favourite is funny and sexy and sad and weird, and ultimately a portrait of loneliness, as no one ends up with what they need, only whatever power they can grab.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
12
Robin Hood (2018)
Well this didn't work out at all.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
13
Boy Erased (2018)
I feel bad marking this rotten because the subject is so important, but the execution is just not there.
Posted Nov 19, 2018
14
Kills any interest that might have existed for more fantastic beasts.
Posted Nov 19, 2018
15
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The worst case scenario of homogenized, generic filmmaking.
Posted Nov 18, 2018
16
Outlaw King (2018)
Points for technical proficiency, but otherwise Outlaw King doesn't justify itself.
Posted Nov 11, 2018
17
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
A weirdly punishing portrait of Freddie Mercury.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
18
Hunter Killer (2018)
Hunter Killer is basically what you think it is-a low-rent Hunt for the Red October that is a straight-up ludicrous hero fantasy.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
19
Keira Knightley's performance is completely off the rails and really the only watchable thing in this movie.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
20
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a misanthrope's character study, a candid revelation of a shocking literary scandal, and a brilliant performance from Melissa McCarthy.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
21
Halloween (2018)
A cut above your typical slasher fare.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
22
Venom (2018)
23
A Simple Favor (2018)
A blackly comedic take on all those tropes common to salacious "women's entertainment", done in a way that actually empowers women.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
24
First Man (2018)
First Man is as much a spectacle as it is an emotional experience, and in that way feels as old-fashioned as its protagonist.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
25
The Predator (2018)
The Predator dismisses itself as "dumber than group one", which, no argument.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
26
Assassination Nation (2018)
It actually defies logic that this movie works.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
27
If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)
A haunting piece of cinema, fully evocative and intimately illuminating.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
28
Widows (2018)
Widows is a heist movie with a mind and a voice and a total lack of fear in using both.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
29
Beautiful Boy (2018)
It is perfectly fine.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
30
The Front Runner (2018)
Gary Hart is the least interesting character in the story, which is kind of a problem when he's the protagonist.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
31
Equal parts pulp, examination of the class divide, and ESCANDALO.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
32
Destination Wedding (2018)
Destination Wedding isn't a rom-com, it's a horror movie about a woman trapped with a men's rights activist.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
33
A Star Is Born (2018)
It's not adding anything new to the Star is Born canon, but it is a solid retelling for a new generation.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
34
Alpha (2018)
It's fine.
Posted Aug 26, 2018
35
The Happytime Murders (2018)
Not funny, not clever, and not nearly as shocking as it thinks it is.
Posted Aug 26, 2018
36
Searching (2018)
An extremely well plotted thriller with enough satisfying twists and turns to keep you entirely engaged.
Posted Aug 26, 2018
37
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Spike Lee at his fiery best.
Posted Aug 19, 2018
38
Mile 22 (2018)
Incomprehensible and flat-out ugly in pretty much every way it can be.
Posted Aug 19, 2018
39
Slender Man (2018)
Slender Man commits the double sin of being not only bad, but boring.
Posted Aug 16, 2018
40
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
The world is on fire, enjoy this glass of champagne.
Posted Aug 16, 2018
41
Eighth Grade (2018)
A lovely but cringe-inducing film about one of the most precarious times in a person's life.
Posted Aug 13, 2018
42
The Meg (2018)
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Posted Aug 13, 2018
43
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Points for Kate McKinnon and a ruthlessly supportive female friendship.
Posted Aug 5, 2018
44
Christopher Robin (2018)
The movie is okay, Tigger is a nightmare.
Posted Aug 5, 2018
45
Blindspotting (2018)
A little messy, but more often than not Blindspotting is a bold, freewheeling examination of race in class in gentrifying America.
Posted Jul 31, 2018
46
Mission: Impossible - Fallout might as well start with an epigraph that says "Buckle up" followed by a giant explosion and an air horn.
Posted Jul 27, 2018
47
A little mundane for a subject as interesting and creative as John Callahan.
Posted Jul 24, 2018
48
Equalizer 2 (2018)
Equalizer 2 is a slow, ponderous affair that not even Denzel's considerable charisma can save.
Posted Jul 21, 2018
49
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Objectively terrible but SO much fun.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
50
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
A unique vision that unfolds in the WILDEST manner.
Posted Jul 14, 2018