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Title/Year
Author
1
The Mule (2018)
A spry, funny, moving film that never heads in the direction in which it looks like it's about to head, kind of like its protagonist.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
2
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
This Mary Poppins may not be strictly necessary, but it's more than sufficient.
Posted Dec 12, 2018
3
Dumplin' (2018)
A movie so lifeless you'd have more fun guessing the Netflix niche group that the production is supposed to satisfy.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
4
After a solid decade of Marvel movies modeled on the same template, it's a thrill to watch one that's allowed to find its own rhythms, to play with form and content...
Posted Dec 5, 2018
5
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
6
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Like Barnum himself, it's an elegant fraud, nice enough to look at as long as you don't look too close.
Posted Dec 4, 2018
7
8
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
In the movies, love is cheap. It's everywhere and nowhere, too often reduced to a formula or a reward. Beale Street knows better.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
9
The Favourite (2018)
Even when the movie's self-love gets to be a bit much, there are stylistic touches to enjoy.
Posted Nov 20, 2018
10
Roma (2018)
Roma is hypnotic and transporting and sublime, everything a movie seen on the big screen ought to be.
Posted Nov 19, 2018
11
Creed II (2018)
12
CAM (2018)
If the first half of Cam is pleasantly episodic and purringly tense, the latter half-in which Alice searches for her hacker-is clever, inventive, and wonderfully evocative.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
13
Congratulations to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald for being the first flat-out terrible product of the Harry Potter expanded universe.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
14
Widows (2018)
McQueen has created a tense and satisfying action drama with a decidedly feminist bent.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
15
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
You don't need to be a Disney connoisseur or an '80s buff to get it. The world it's set in is entirely, and sometimes frighteningly, of the current moment.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
16
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
17
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
It's "new" in the way New Coke was new, familiar enough so you can tell what it's aiming for, but it's subtly, and sometimes not-so-subtly, off.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
18
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
19
Tyrel (2018)
[Mitchell] lets you feel every humiliation and subsequent redemption while he's trapped in this dynamic.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
20
Boy Erased (2018)
Boy Erased feels mostly honorable and fit for its mantle.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
21
Suspiria (2018)
Suspiria is a meditation on the dangers of pedagogy and the perils of placing your art above all else, but it never quite fights its way to the surface.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
22
Burning (Beoning) (2018)
23
Mid90s (2018)
Mid90s just looks like a poser.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
24
Wildlife (2018)
A confident and compassionate first film.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
25
Beautiful Boy (2018)
26
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
27
The Hate U Give (2018)
It's a message movie, but it never forgets the human dimension.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
28
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
29
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
30
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
31
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
32
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
33
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
34
The House With a Clock in its Walls is a bullseye, perfectly balanced between funny and scary.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
35
Colette (2018)
Without ignoring the reality of systemic oppression, Colette finds moments of joy and revels in them.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
36
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
37
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
38
The Predator (2018)
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A Simple Favor (2018)
A Simple Favor reintroduces Lively as a character actress-a sexy, funny, award-worthy revelation.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
41
Quincy (2018)
42
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
43
Bisbee '17 (2018)
Remembering the past is not enough to prevent its recurrence. It has to be kept alive.
Posted Sep 5, 2018
44
Pick of the Litter (2018)
45
The Little Stranger (2018)
The film just glumly proceeds.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
46
The Happytime Murders (2018)
47
Support the Girls (2018)
48
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
49
Stilted and scattered and strangely cold in its cinematography, it's a handsomely shot whole lotta nothin'.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
50
We the Animals (2018)