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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Mid90s (2018)
Mid90s just looks like a poser.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
2
Wildlife (2018)
A confident and compassionate first film.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
3
Beautiful Boy (2018)
4
First Man (2018)
A movie that's as fascinated by the remote inner landscape of its hero as he is by the unexplored surface of the moon.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
5
The Hate U Give (2018)
It's a message movie, but it never forgets the human dimension.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
6
A Star Is Born (2018)
It feels somehow compact despite its sprawling two-hour-and-15-minute size, with nary a scene or frame wasted as it builds to its inexorable yet heart-shattering finale.
Posted Oct 4, 2018
7
Venom (2018)
At the very least, Venom feels as if Fleischer was shooting two radically different movies at once, and even in the final edit it's not clear which he chose.
Posted Oct 3, 2018
8
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
The Old Man and the Gun is as old-fashioned and sincere, as temperamentally un-postmodern, as it's possible for a movie to be.
Posted Sep 28, 2018
9
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
A near-masterpiece-a simmering chase movie that gradually heats up to a searing family drama that wonders how to care for a loved one that's impossible to live with.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
10
B+
American Dharma (2018)
The camera stays on Bannon, and what we see is a man who reveals himself even as he thinks he's gaining the upper hand.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
11
Love, Gilda (2018)
The result, like much of Radner's comedy, is entertaining, appealing, and more soft-centered than challenging or acerbic.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
12
The House With a Clock in its Walls is a bullseye, perfectly balanced between funny and scary.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
13
Colette (2018)
Without ignoring the reality of systemic oppression, Colette finds moments of joy and revels in them.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
14
Life Itself (2018)
Life, it seems, can be summarized as Terrible Things Keep Happening to Nice, Attractive People, Especially the Women.
Posted Sep 18, 2018
15
70th Emmy Awards (2018)
These Emmys were briskly paced and deeply tepid. Che and Jost, the least famous hosts in almost a decade, were almost willfully unmemorable.
Posted Sep 18, 2018
16
The Predator (2018)
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18
A Simple Favor (2018)
A Simple Favor reintroduces Lively as a character actress-a sexy, funny, award-worthy revelation.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
19
Quincy (2018)
20
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
21
Bisbee '17 (2018)
Remembering the past is not enough to prevent its recurrence. It has to be kept alive.
Posted Sep 5, 2018
22
Pick of the Litter (2018)
23
The Little Stranger (2018)
The film just glumly proceeds.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
24
The Happytime Murders (2018)
25
Support the Girls (2018)
26
Searching (2018)
Co-writers Chaganty and Sev Ohanian carefully construct a twisty whodunit that flirts with the lurid but ultimately remains grounded in suburban reality.
Posted Aug 23, 2018
27
Stilted and scattered and strangely cold in its cinematography, it's a handsomely shot whole lotta nothin'.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
28
We the Animals (2018)
Zagar is a documentarian at heart, and it shows: The film is a closely, compassionately observed study of a boyhood that's otherwise largely unsupervised.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
29
The movie is comfort food through and through, as wholesome and predictable as a Sunday roast and as sickly sweet as sticky toffee pudding.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
30
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
BlacKkKlansman uses history to illustrate how we're repeating it.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
31
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
32
Nico, 1988 (2018)
The film leaves one feeling that few humans have ever been quite so alone as Christa Päffgen, and yet so crowded.
Posted Aug 8, 2018
33
A handsomely retrofitted after-school movie.
Posted Aug 6, 2018
34
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
It doesn't help that Kunis and McKinnon share zero chemistry, thus sucking the air out of each scene in which they're supposed to be bonding.
Posted Jul 31, 2018
35
36
Grey Gardens (2009)
If there is a meaning to this adaptation, it lies in the filmmaker's gentle suggestion of the Beales' martyrdom-though for what cause the ladies suffered remains unclear.
Posted Jul 24, 2018
37
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
[A] pleasure-loving, sex-positive, Cher-starring Ramos gin fizz of a movie...
Posted Jul 19, 2018
38
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)
39
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)
When you take the anti-irony train all the way to the end of the line, one place you can end up is Nanette.
Posted Jul 18, 2018
40
McQueen (2018)
The intricacy of the pieces and stagings... makes McQueen the relatively rare documentary that demands to be seen on the big screen.
Posted Jul 18, 2018
41
Fallout's pleasures are gratifyingly straightforward, direct without being dumbed-down. It's a meat-and-potatoes banquet, one that doesn't need to be interesting to be satisfying.
Posted Jul 12, 2018
42
Eighth Grade (2018)
A deeply kind movie, curious and nonjudgmental even about the characters who in most coming-of-age films would be hissable villains.
Posted Jul 10, 2018
43
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
The film's uncanny images build in wit and discomfort until they reach nightmarish proportions-an artful metaphor for unrestrained capitalism's natural endpoint.
Posted Jul 7, 2018
44
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp is an eager puppy of a $100 million superhero tentpole, and it knows precisely where on your face to lick you.
Posted Jul 6, 2018
45
The First Purge (2018)
46
Uncle Drew (2018)
Structuring a feature film around someone like Irving is a delicate dance. If only the results were as consistently well-choreographed as that dance-off.
Posted Jun 28, 2018
47
It feels like something much bigger than the film itself comes entirely together: four men on a stage, being musicians, being Indians, being Americans, playing rock 'n' roll.
Posted Jun 27, 2018
48
Leave No Trace (2018)
It sneaks up on you, then leaves you in paralyzed shock.
Posted Jun 27, 2018
49
Too Big to Fail (2011)
The movie is a tense vignette with a nonending.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
50
Eating Animals (2018)
An annoyingly blinkered piece of agitprop-but an effective one, too.
Posted Jun 20, 2018