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Battleship Pretension

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1
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Scott Nye

Eli Roth's participation here will no doubt raise eyebrows among those familiar with his gross-out screamers, though he approaches this more family-friendly material with no less urge to shock.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
2
Sunset (Napszállta) (2018)

David Bax

In 2015, Nemes made a film about one of history's most incomprehensible atrocities and was heavily awarded for it. This time, he seems to have cut out the middleman and made a film that serves nothing so much as his own ego.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
3
American Chaos (2018)

Tyler Smith

Rating: Fresh Pull Quote: "With so many taking hardline political stances, James Stern's attempt at injecting some compassion into the proceedings is a welcome relief, even if it does feel a bit soft at times.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
4
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016)

David Bax

Yeoman wisely draws his camera back, framing the presentations as if they were paintings, only occasionally allowing us to peak up close as one might do when standing before the work of an Impressionist master or the like.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
5
Lizzie (2018)

David Bax

Lizzie ultimately does more for history, women and cinema with its devotion to the muddiness of morality and the clarity, however fleeting, of love.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
6
Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

Tyler Smith

Unbroken: Path to Redemption contains more good than bad. Director Harold Cronk's stylistic flourishes only occasionally enhance the story, but they rarely impede the telling of it. The resulting film is competent and sometimes compelling.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
7
White Boy Rick (2018)

Rita Cannon

While undeniably entertaining, White Boy Rick ultimately hobbles itself by forcing a complicated story into a simpler format than it deserves.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
8
The Predator (2018)

Scott Nye

It feels like an entry designed to keep a franchise going by giving its fans the bare minimum until they can get to the next one.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
9
Science Fair (2018)

David Bax

As long as we adults don't stop them, these kids will literally save us all. What's cooler than that?
Posted Sep 12, 2018
10
Where Hands Touch (2018)

David Bax

Though lacking much of the grace and strength of Belle, Asante's crowning achievement to date, Where Hands Touch is another stirring reminder that people of many, varied backgrounds have lived, felt, loved and suffered throughout history.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
11
Mandy (2018)

David Bax

At its core, despite being unreservedly far out, Mandy is a pretty conventional revenge story. But Cosmatos has taken those conventions back to their primordial state, fashioning something that goes deeper than the archetypal. It's downright mythical.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
12
Colette (2018)

David Bax

Such is the strength of Westmoreland's confidence, a sure hand that, along with two terrific lead performances, shines through every frame of Colette.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
13
Gloria Bell (2018)

David Bax

Gloria is as much in control of her own life as she is able to be. We should all be so blessed.
Posted Sep 8, 2018
14
Kursk (2018)

David Bax

The right of Vinterberg to relate this story is debatable but the narrative seems so specifically critical of Russia that one wonders if it could even be made there in the age of Putin.
Posted Sep 8, 2018
15
Mouthpiece (2018)

David Bax

Like the ideal version of their mother these sisters carry in their heads, there's a better version of Mouthpiece that was never uncovered.
Posted Sep 8, 2018
16
Loro (2018)

David Bax

Where Il Divo's abstraction of Andreotti's political career bordered on the impressionistic, Loro engages with its subject's psyche and motivations directly.
Posted Sep 8, 2018
17
Dogman (2018)

David Bax

Garrone excels at gradually increasing his vice grip on an initially joyful, humanist milieu.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
18
Monsters and Men (2018)

David Bax

It sets itself apart, though, by not dramatizing the issues themselves but rather focusing on the individual fallouts felt by those in the afflicted demographic.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
19
Kusama: Infinity (2018)

David Bax

You'll come away from it having learned something but probably not having been moved by it.
Posted Sep 5, 2018
20
Bisbee '17 (2018)

David Bax

This is, in large part, a documentary about its own making, openly welcoming questions about how much the presence of Greene and his crew are influencing what they capture.
Posted Sep 4, 2018
21
The Little Stranger (2018)

David Bax

Though the scares are probably too late to arrive and too few in number to satisfy genre acolytes, the clues as to where the story is headed come early.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
22
Peppermint Soda (1977)

David Bax

Peppermint Soda is a stellar example of the coming-of-age format.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
23
Operation Finale (2018)

Tyler Smith

The story itself may have power, with a strong, committed cast, but it never quite becomes a vital part of the conversation.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
24
Juliet, Naked (2018)

David Bax

Juliet, Naked is aiming to be a coming-of-middle-age movie but, really, it seems to be too little, too late. These people need to just grow up already.
Posted Aug 30, 2018