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Title/Year
Author
1
Stilted and scattered and strangely cold in its cinematography, it's a handsomely shot whole lotta nothin'.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
2
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
3
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
4
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
BlacKkKlansman uses history to illustrate how we're repeating it.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
5
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
6
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
7
A handsomely retrofitted after-school movie.
Posted Aug 6, 2018
8
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
9
10
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
11
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
[A] pleasure-loving, sex-positive, Cher-starring Ramos gin fizz of a movie...
Posted Jul 19, 2018
12
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)
13
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
14
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
15
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
16
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
17
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
18
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
19
The First Purge (2018)
20
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
21
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
22
Leave No Trace (2018)
It sneaks up on you, then leaves you in paralyzed shock.
Posted Jun 27, 2018
23
Too Big to Fail (2011)
The movie is a tense vignette with a nonending.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
24
Eating Animals (2018)
An annoyingly blinkered piece of agitprop-but an effective one, too.
Posted Jun 20, 2018
25
Fallen Kingdom understands that, as much as Jurassic Park has the shape of an action movie, its roots are in horror, and Bayona takes evident glee in drawing out his scares.
Posted Jun 19, 2018
26
Alex Strangelove (2018)
27
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Incredibles 2 is a movie that lavishes attention on the details but loses sight of the whole, where you can't see the forest for the meticulously rendered trees.
Posted Jun 11, 2018
28
Ocean's 8 (2018)
Ocean's 8 is in many ways a mirror image of its predecessor, but it's most delightful when it follows its own path toward girly transcendence.
Posted Jun 5, 2018
29
Hereditary (2018)
30
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
31
A Kid Like Jake (2018)
An authentic, conversational messiness we rarely see on screen.
Posted Jun 4, 2018
32
The Bad News Bears (1976)
33
A film suffused with a love of art, and of those who would dare to make it.
Posted May 21, 2018
34
Book Club (2018)
Everyone who goes to this movie will leave satisfied, mostly just because it exists.
Posted May 18, 2018
35
Deadpool 2 (2018)
A little of Deadpool's incessant winkiness goes a long way, and by the time the movie was over, all I felt was sore.
Posted May 17, 2018
36
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
A corporate directive made flesh, a quarterly earnings report in a vest and black leather boots.
Posted May 15, 2018
37
Revenge (2018)
38
Mapplethorpe (2018)
This zoetrope-esque blurring ultimately lends Mapplethorpe its edge, as audiences will feel unable to tear themselves away from its protagonist's lavish self-destruction.
Posted May 8, 2018
39
Overboard (2018)
The new paint job is nice, but the insides may be too creaky to salvage.
Posted May 3, 2018
40
Roll Red Roll (2018)
Documentaries don't usually horrify the oxygen out of me, but I found myself gulping for air more than once during Roll Red Roll.
Posted May 3, 2018
41
Tully (2018)
42
RBG (2018)
43
Duck Butter (2018)
If you can step outside of your comfort zone, like Shawkat and Costa demonstrate with their brazen performances, this is worth a watch.
Posted Apr 27, 2018
44
The Rachel Divide (2018)
45
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Sitting through its 2 hours and 30 minutes is like gorging on tapas: You wind up both overstuffed and unsatisfied.
Posted Apr 24, 2018
46
Knight Rider (2008)
If you're looking to see the sci-fi Cheese Whiz of your youth transformed into something compelling, then you're probably already watching Battlestar Galactica.
Posted Apr 24, 2018
47
The Seagull (2018)
When [Saoirse] Ronan's face appears for the first time it is a glowing orb that fills the screen. She seems to emit sunshine from inside her white dress.
Posted Apr 24, 2018
48
Disobedience (2018)
49
I Feel Pretty (2018)
50
The Rider (2018)