Nashville Scene
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Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Bilge Ebiri, Craig D. Lindsey, Jim Ridley, Noel Murray, Rob Nelson
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Widows (2018)
2
Boy Erased (2018)
It's an ABC Afterschool Special with aspirations of winning a Best Picture Oscar.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
3
Studio 54 (2018)
4
Bad Reputation (2018)
5
Life Itself (2018)
Fogelman tries to tug on the heartstrings by giving us a story full of people who go through some harrowing, emotional ordeals, but it constantly rings hollow.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
6
Juliet, Naked (2018)
7
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Very entertaining on its surface, but its undercurrents might make you a bit queasy.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
8
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
9
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
It's a comedy with a lot on its mind, to be sure. But what Riley has accomplished with this film is notable because of all the ways it could fall flat but doesn't.
Posted Jul 12, 2018
10
Damsel (2018)
Everything here is mashed together into a postmodern pileup that thinks it's politically progressive and smart but really isn't.
Posted Jul 5, 2018
11
The Rider (2018)
12
Lean on Pete (2018)
Without the pop pleasures of Sean Baker's The Florida Project, it offers a similar critique of contemporary America, very convincingly acted and directed with a fine eye.
Posted Apr 19, 2018
13
Foxtrot (2018)
Foxtrot plays like a chamber drama with an absurd penchant for tragedy.
Posted Mar 22, 2018
14
The Death of Stalin (2018)
Once again, if you know how Iannucci works, you can expect Stalin to be as hilariously foul-mouthed as his previous works.
Posted Mar 22, 2018
15
Red Sparrow (2018)
16
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
It works as a buddy movie of sorts, as well as a story of one man heroically defying the system, but it's never as enlightened as it thinks it is.
Posted Feb 16, 2018
17
The colorful cinematography and production design (a strength of even his weakest work) heighten rather than detract from the narrative's downbeat nature...
Posted Feb 16, 2018
18
The Overnight (2015)
In only 78 minutes, this eye-widening, startlingly honest little movie says more about love, and the difficulties of keeping it fresh, than most rom-coms with 10 times its budget.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
19
The Neon Demon (2016)
The Neon Demon is just as derivative as Drive, but it treats its influences in a more diffuse manner.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
20
American Honey (2016)
You may hate it, but you're unlikely to feel blasé after coming out the other end of Arnold's vision of America.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
21
The Assassin (2015)
You're not likely to see a better film this year.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
22
Directors Franz (Seidl's wife and a collaborator on his scripts) and Fiala have basically made arthouse torture porn.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
23
Under The Sun (2016)
... a film about the human cost of authoritarianism, as well as a postmodern lesson in the value of questioning the reality of what we watch.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
24
Even if I remain unconvinced of the greatness of most of his music, Eat That Question makes the best possible case for his merits in other areas.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
25
The Salesman (Forushande) (2017)
See The Salesman for an expertly crafted lesson in cultural differences.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
26
Jackie (2016)
Portman's performance does hint at an inner strength, particularly in the magazine interview, but the script betrays her.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
27
Moonlight (2016)
28
A Quiet Passion (2017)
It's no accident that A Quiet Passion evokes late avant-modernist women like Akerman and Huillet.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
29
[Director Kore-eda Hirokazu's] work is no mere nostalgia act...
Posted Feb 12, 2018
30
Raw (2017)
31
Maudie (2017)
Maudie ultimately just seems like a quaint exercise, more like visiting a history museum than watching a woman who truly lived.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
32
The Beguiled (2017)
If Coppola puts a feminist spin on the narrative, emphasizing the difficulty of expressing female desire without endangerment, she's not far off from the original.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
33
City of Ghosts (2017)
34
The Challenge (2017)
For its first half-hour, The Challenge gets by on visual style alone, and Ancarani is obviously extremely talented. But after that, it begins to feel increasingly shallow.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
35
The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
Fares delivers one of this year's most impressive male performances so far, one that lifts this film above the neo-noir clichés that it could have suffered from.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
36
Beach Rats (2017)
37
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (2015)
Both in her strength and confusion, Minnie - played by British actress Bel Powley - is a really believable teenager.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
38
Time Out Of Mind (2015)
39
Dior and I (2015)
40
Mr. Turner (2014)
... it's the British director's best film in years.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
41
Seymour: An Introduction (2015)
Academy Award or not, Hawke and Bernstein make a better case than Chazelle and J.K. Simmons.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
42
Finding Fela! (2014)
Ultimately, Finding Fela loses its narrative backbone when it can no longer rely on gifted footage and must focus on the actual man.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
43
Foxcatcher (2014)
You can see equally tawdry true-crime dramas all day long on cable TV, and their directors don't take 134 minutes or use a showily desaturated palette to tell them.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
44
Stranger by the Lake (2014)
... many of my qualms evaporated in the movie's brutally suspenseful final 10 minutes...
Posted Feb 12, 2018
45
Actress (2014)
46
Love Is Strange (2014)
... in subtle ways, Love Is Strange keeps pointing out the traces of homophobia that exist in large and small degrees in our supposedly "post-gay" culture.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
47
The Dog (2014)
Cautionary tales are rarely this exhilarating.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
48
The Lunchbox (2014)
This may sound like unpromising sitcom material, but The Lunchbox digs deeper...
Posted Feb 12, 2018
49
Palo Alto (2014)
While not quite at the level of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused or Olivier Assayas' Cold Water, it comes closer than most contemporary American teen films dare.
Posted Feb 12, 2018
50
The Dance of Reality (2014)
... an unexpected and appealing comeback.
Posted Feb 12, 2018