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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2.5/5
The Breaker Upperers (2018)
The Breaker Upperers' biggest downfall is that it lacks momentum and focus.
Posted Feb 15, 2019
2
4.5/5
Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2018)
.. the film delivers one gut punch after another, guaranteeing that Shoplifters will sit with you long after you finish watching it.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
3
3/5
Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History accomplishes the comedian's goal of presenting Black history with a palatable vocabulary for children.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
4
2/5
Untogether (2019)
The film has a few strong moments that suggest good things for Forrest's future films, but for now, Untogether needs more rest and more focus.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
5
3.5/5
Dear Ex (2018)
Dear Ex is about pain, and it can painful to watch at times, but it's a rewarding film-it's a movie that isn't afraid to feel its feelings and grapple with what they mean.
Posted Feb 6, 2019
6
4/5
High Flying Bird (2019)
... It pulls off power moves that largely work as it takes a hard look at the sport's exploitive history.
Posted Feb 6, 2019
7
2/5
I found myself reacting to some of the material like Romano was my own father telling me a bad joke: that closed-mouth smile and silent nod.
Posted Feb 6, 2019
8
4/5
Aside from highlighting two of the Big Apple's print journalism beacons, the film also rekindles a romance for the written word.
Posted Feb 2, 2019
9
3.5/5
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
At its best, Velvet Buzzsaw blends its disparate elements together with scenes that can make you jump, laugh, and cringe all at once.
Posted Feb 2, 2019
10
2.5/5
Ánimas (2018)
But with an overreliance on the horror film stories and clichés that came before it, it doesn't have anything interesting to say.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
11
2.5/5
Polar (2019)
If Netflix's Polar wasn't so sexist, it would be amusing, trashy fun.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
12
1/5
Even worse, Corbell never digs directly into Lazar's claims. His failure to locate any sort of authenticity proves to be the film's worst feature, of many.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
13
4/5
Soni (2018)
Ayr doesn't allow the story to devolve into sermonizing or finger-wagging. He keeps the film on-track, and Ohlyan and Batra form its soul.
Posted Jan 21, 2019
14
2.5/5
Io (2019)
To stand out in the noise, a film must have a unique plot, feel eerily plausible, and reveal a profound truth about human nature. Unfortunately, IO doesn't accomplish any of that.
Posted Jan 21, 2019
15
3/5
Fyre Fraud (2019)
Proper event planning can actually pull off a win. Now how many people did Hulu convince to watch?
Posted Jan 18, 2019
16
2.5/5
Close (2019)
It's satisfying enough for rainy afternoon viewing, but it doesn't measure up to the fast-paced action of more mainstream thrillers.
Posted Jan 18, 2019
17
2.5/5
Revenger (2018)
Revenger spends too much time on forgettable characters and misguided plot points.
Posted Jan 18, 2019
18
3/5
Lionheart (2018)
Lionheart is not only groundbreaking, it's a lighthearted, feel-good movie about both family values and feminism that's an enjoyable watch for the whole family.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
19
2/5
The Last Laugh (2019)
Not only is the material bad, but it feels like Chase and Dreyfuss know it, as they fail to jazz up the story or their characters at all.
Posted Jan 15, 2019
20
4/5
With its rich mix of politics, music, and Perlmutt's effective peering into the human condition, it's the series' best offering by far.
Posted Jan 14, 2019
21
2.5/5
Fyre (2019)
"Capture everything," the directive for documenting the lead-up to the festival, yields a bounty of expository content.
Posted Jan 14, 2019
22
1.5/5
Life Itself (2018)
Movies this emotionally fraudulent should be tucked away in the dark corners of the internet.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
23
It the perfect HBO special for a chill Libra season. The entire performance feels like a jump back to the early aughts.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
24
Katt Williams: Great America (2018)
It's a hard time for America, but, as he reminds, it's always been hard and always will be. We've just got to remember to live and laugh through it.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
25
3.5/5
The episode adds to the collective curiosity surrounding these deaths but never quite satiates.
Posted Dec 10, 2018
26
Constantine (2005)
It's Keanu's offbeat humor and subtle sensitivity that prevent John Constantine from becoming an angsty, chain-smoking, grimly macho cliché.
Posted Dec 4, 2018
27
3/5
Much like its predecessor, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding is both heartwarming and kitschy, and not particularly compelling-but also not bad.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
28
4/5
Fast-rising director Romain Gavras takes a giant leap forward in the feature film arena with his ballsy, Cannes-approved pulp/crime comedy The World Is Yours.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
29
2.5/5
The film goes on to rail against banks and the evils of modern capitalism without seeming to fully understand what it's protesting.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
30
3/5
The American Meme (2018)
But with a clear and mostly unfiltered focus on [its] subjects, The American Meme... shows just how high the pressure to keep up with everyone else truly is.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
31
1/5
Sabrina (2018)
If you like movies that are bad but occasionally amusing in their ridiculousness, you might get something out of it. Otherwise, there's nothing to enjoy here.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
32
3/5
Jonathan (2018)
But while the ideas are engaging (even with their occasional predictability), the uneven execution and character work become more noticeable as the film progresses.
Posted Nov 20, 2018
33
CAM (2018)
It treks even deeper into the maw for an imaginative and terrifying look at the prism of online identity.
Posted Nov 20, 2018
34
Hits (2015)
Hits misses the mark, but there's evidence he's capable of something great.
Posted Nov 19, 2018
35
4/5
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
Liz and the Blue Bird soars from the get-go as it weaves together a fantastical fairy tale and a more intimate, relatable high school story.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
36
2.5/5
It has more to say than its predecessor, but the message gets jumbled in the process, leaving viewers wanting more-or at least a little more breathing room.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
37
3.5/5
[Leguizamo] makes a valiant attempt to connect modern-day oppression with an excruciatingly violent past-and realizes they have the same root.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
38
3/5
It's frenzied, jumbled, morose-much like The Other Side of the Wind.
Posted Nov 3, 2018
39
5/5
Roma (2018)
It's undoubtedly one of the greatest movies of 2018, destined to live on as a highlight of Cuarón's career.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
40
3/5
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh (2018)
100% Fresh suggests there's a better path forward for [Sandler], one that combines the lowbrow, everyman quality of his early days with the spirit of where he is now.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
41
4/5
Shirkers (2018)
Sandi Tan's Shirkers... is a study in memory and performance, as well as the complexities of women's friendship and creativity.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
42
4/5
Suspiria (2018)
43
Outlaw King (2018)
With picturesque scenery and an engaging underdog hero, it provides an antidote to the onslaught of relentlessly gritty historical action flicks.
Posted Oct 22, 2018
44
3.5/5
The Night Comes For Us (2018)
Action junkies will eat it up, while people less susceptible to the genre's charms will turn it off by the third or fourth arm snapping.
Posted Oct 22, 2018
45
3/5
ReMastered: Who Shot The Sheriff? ultimately solves little, and the film often sinks into a history lesson on Jamaica's muddled politics.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
46
4.5/5
Mirai (2018)
Mirai is heartwarming without being cloyingly sentimental, a charming and often laugh-out-loud funny story about a young sibling rivalry.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
47
This visual anthology presents a collection of individual stories introducing some of the most influential feminists of the 1960s and '70s. It's not much more.
Posted Oct 15, 2018
48
3/5
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
A Wild West movie all about white men, where Native Americans only appear onscreen to scalp people and get shot in the head? Groundbreaking.
Posted Oct 15, 2018
49
3.5/5
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
[The Kindergarten Teacher] starts as a fairly benign drama about a teacher living a frustrated life and gives way to a potent tale of obsession and the cost of greatness.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
50
3.5/5
22 July (2018)