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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Brexit (2019)
Cumberbatch's tight-wired performance is the best thing in this brisk but mechanical retread of recent events.
Posted Jan 18, 2019
2
Alone (Solo) (2018)
Hernández turns in a soulful lead performance under extreme physical stress, complemented by Sergio Jiménez Lacima's lush, romantic score.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
3
Glass (2019)
Shyamalan's talent for primitive scares remains intact in "Glass," as does his love for cramming a whole lot of story in one feature.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
4
The gaps in logic might be easier to forgive if the movie's real-world resonances weren't so troubling.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
5
An Acceptable Loss (2019)
Unfortunately, the plot is as lackluster ideologically as the picture is visually.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
6
I Hate Kids (2019)
The single achievement of "I Hate Kids," a new comedy directed by John Asher, is that it is simultaneously tepid and offensive.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
7
Adult Life Skills (2019)
By the time I had finished watching the aggressively whimsical British comedy "Adult Life Skills," my eyes had rolled so far back in my head I could barely focus.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
8
Who Will Write Our History (2019)
The staged scenes are well acted, while readings from diaries and letters are heartbreaking.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
9
The movie's emotional potency is undeniable, its slow crescendo of wounded feelings and shimmering photography leaving unexpected imprints on the eyes and heart.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
10
Fyre Fraud (2019)
It has arguments to make about the insecurities of millennials and the perniciousness of social media. And the arguments don't feel like blather.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
11
Fyre (2019)
"Fyre" hurls the swindle at its center like a bowling ball.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
12
The Last Laugh (2019)
13
14
What Is Democracy? (2019)
Like democracy itself, the movie assumes such a broad mandate and has such noble intentions that indicating its shortcomings seems almost beside the point.
Posted Jan 15, 2019
15
The Music Lovers (1971)
16
Images (1972)
This clanging, pretentious, tricked-up exercise, is almost a model of how not to dramatize the plight of a schizoid.
Posted Jan 14, 2019
17
And Breathe Normally (2018)
It engages the audience with a deeply resonant narrative that highlights the ways our sense of safe keeping can suddenly be ripped from our grasp.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
18
Perfectos Desconocidos (2019)
Maintains narrative interest without ever grabbing the viewer by the lapels.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
19
A Dog's Way Home (2019)
As ridiculous as it gets, and that's plenty, "A Dog's Way Home" manages to serve up a one- to two-hankie finale, depending on the extent of your dog-person-ness.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
20
Pledge (2019)
If you like your torture movies tight, twisty and decently executed, then "Pledge" is for you.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
21
Ashes in the Snow (2019)
22
Touch Me Not (2019)
A curiously intense, weirdly tranquil experience, at times hard to watch and then hard to shake.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
23
The Upside (2019)
Jon Hartmere's script has genuinely funny moments and is blessedly short on crassness: even a scene involving catheters and colon hygiene is less cringey than you might expect.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
24
The Aspern Papers (2019)
25
Lionheart (2018)
It is globally minded filmmaking that is also comfortingly familiar.
Posted Jan 9, 2019
26
Black Panther (2018)
"Black Panther" lived up to the hype.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
27
Newly Single (2018)
Amid the familiar personality quirks, airy loft setting, glowing cinematography and orchestral score, the toxicity of Astor's narcissism and frustration leaps out.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
28
One of the most startling and moving animated films ever.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
29
Escape Room (2019)
30
In a sense, this is the most terrifying of Schroder's portraits.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
31
State Like Sleep (2019)
It pauses before turning any corner, anticipating horrors that never satisfyingly arrive.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
32
Rust Creek (2019)
33
The Vanishing (2019)
34
Genesis 2.0 (2019)
While the sights and sounds here are unique, the movie seems frustratingly torn about whether to buy the futurism and mysticism it's selling.
Posted Jan 2, 2019
35
Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018)
It's baffling that Gervais can have so much reverence for physical evolution and so little for intellectual evolution.
Posted Dec 28, 2018
36
With "Kid Gorgeous," John Mulaney made the leap from highly respected writer and comic to elite A-list stand-up.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
37
This is fairly subtle work, the kind that also reminds you that we're living in a big, complex country where even people in neighboring states talk differently.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
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39
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly deliver dynamite performances that capture the expressions and physicality of the star comedians without ever descending into caricature.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
40
41
Holmes and Watson (2018)
Smuggling in booze to dispel the sense of dull routine could only help.
Posted Dec 25, 2018
42
Destroyer (2018)
43
On the Basis of Sex (2019)
Historical narratives are best when they pique curiosity as well as satisfy it, and this one is too conscientious to proclaim its own comprehensiveness.
Posted Dec 24, 2018
44
Cold War (Zimna wojna) (2018)
Its greatest strengths, though, are its two knockout leads, who give the story its heat, its flesh and its heartbreak.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
45
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
There is not much in this movie that feels authentic or fully realized, but its very strangeness makes it hard to forget or dismiss.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
46
Between Worlds (2018)
"Nothing that I can say is going to make any sense," Julie tells a confused acquaintance at one point. Please believe her.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
47
American Renegades (2018)
"American Renegades" could use some seasoning to go with its meatheadeness.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
48
Avicii: True Stories (2017)
The director, Levan Tsikurishvili, never reconciles the movie's competing impulses.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
49
The Last Resort (2018)
50