The Film Experience
The Film Experience is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this
publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following
Tomatometer-approved critic(s):
Chris Feil, Christopher James, Glenn Dunks, Jason Adams, Manuel Betancourt, Matthew Eng, Matthew St. Clair, Murtada Elfadl, Nathaniel Rogers
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
A
God's Country (2022)
A slow-burn thriller about isolation and fighting back against a cold, unforgiving world, God's Country grips you the minute it starts and never lets go until the credits roll.
Posted Jan 30, 2022
2
B+
Am I OK? (2022)
Johnson and Mizuno are the strong center of this revitalizing spin on the coming-of-age storyline.
Posted Jan 30, 2022
3
Resurrection (2022)
Anybody who doesn't want to watch the hell out of a movie about Rebecca Hall losing her mind over Tim Roth is not anybody I wanna know
Posted Jan 27, 2022
4
Dual (2022)
I bet you didn't think it was possible to impassively puke up blood, but you'd be wrong, and this is just the movie to prove it
Posted Jan 27, 2022
5
B+
Master (2022)
Although certain story elements outweigh others, Master thrives on its slow-burn execution and sheer demonstration of danger lingering around every corner...
Posted Jan 26, 2022
6
A
You Won't Be Alone (2022)
It's a haunting movie that certainly won't leave my mind anytime soon.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
7
Alice (2022)
Alice is a couple of movies at war with itself and Keke [Palmer] is, by sheer force of personality, giving us the spectacle we desire
Posted Jan 25, 2022
8
Babysitter (2022)
Plays like somebody stuffed a classic French farce into a blender, right down to the wee-wee maid's uniform. It is a lot, too much, and not enough all at once. Très exhausting
Posted Jan 24, 2022
9
A Love Song (2022)
Without Dale Dickey's performance, or her co-star Wes Studi who impresses in equal measure, A Love Song wouldn't be as lyrical as it is.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
10
Speak No Evil (2022)
This is a dark sit, a hard watch, and for those who're into that sort of thing a valorous entry in the Feel-Bad Hall of Fame
Posted Jan 22, 2022
11
The Forbidden Room (2015)
The outside world, like centenarian film-stock, dissolves in acid-hued pools right around you. Outside world? What outside world? We are all film down here.
Posted Jan 14, 2022
12
The Florida Project (2017)
Baker clearly loves every single person he puts inside his camera and feeds off their nasty wise humor of the doomed... The Florida Project is deeply honest
Posted Jan 14, 2022
13
Black Tide (Fleuve noir) (2018)
a real effortfully cool 70s vibe
Posted Jan 14, 2022
14
First Cow (2020)
15
Fauna (2020)
The film casts a spell, a memorably unconventional one that seems to stand in the mirror and tickle itself
Posted Jan 14, 2022
16
Scream (2022)
17
The Exception never lets itself drown in the horror that we all know's just off-screen
Posted Jan 14, 2022
18
Equals (2016)
You've never seen skin as devastatingly luminescent as Hoult's here
Posted Jan 14, 2022
19
C-
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta (2021)
Peripheral details like an old abandoned theater and a pregnant dog were more interesting than the main characters.
Posted Jan 12, 2022
20
Disobedience (2018)
Disobedience took the wind right out of me
Posted Jan 10, 2022
21
Diane (2019)
Mary Kay Place never goes for the jugular with any of the material, knowing full well how to make us lean in and feel something just by virtue of her beautiful stillness.
Posted Jan 10, 2022
22
Procession (2021)
It's hard to imagine a documentary this year more effectively using art for the betterment of its subjects' humanity.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
23
B+
Nightmare Alley (2021)
As with the original 1947 noir, Nightmare Alley is an exemplary exercise on the folly of man.
Posted Dec 17, 2021
24
C
Don't Look Up (2021)
Satire is a precise tool, not a blunt object.
Posted Dec 14, 2021
25
B+
West Side Story (2021)
26
B-
Nightmare Alley (2021)
27
D+
House of Gucci (2021)
28
B
Don't Look Up (2021)
29
Wolf (2021)
30
The Humans (2021)
"Darkly funny and emotionally cataclysmic... Is this already the greatest Thanksgiving movie ever made?"
Posted Nov 23, 2021
31
Flee (2021)
The key to the success of Jonas Poher Rasmussen's film is that it embraces traditional documentary form as much as it pushes it.
Posted Nov 21, 2021
32
B
The First Wave (2021)
What makes The First Wave worth watching is the way it chronicles the nurses' hard work in the face of insurmountable challenges.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
33
A-
Red Rocket (2021)
While Baker cares for many of his characters, it's a strange treat to get into the mind of someone as deliciously narcissistic and awful as Mikey.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
34
B
Petite Maman (2021)
At just 72 minutes, the film zips by, almost like a sweet little dream.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
35
A
Parallel Mothers is top-tier Almodóvar, particularly because it subverts one's own expectations and becomes a much more emotional, haunting and political picture.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
36
B+
King Richard (2021)
To talk about King Richard, one must start and end with Will Smith's towering performance.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
37
A-
tick, tick...Boom! (2021)
Boisterous and messy, exhausting but alive, tick, tick... BOOM! is a joyful party for musical theater fans. It really goes for it.
Posted Nov 12, 2021
38
B+
The pains of slavery are alive and well in American culture because of our willed ignorance. One might say, it's who we are.
Posted Nov 12, 2021
39
B-
While Merlant's performance suggests a more robust film, Paris 13th District feels all too generic and slight to make an impression.
Posted Nov 12, 2021
40
A
The Worst Person In the World might just earn an equally lofty superlative - the best movie of the year.
Posted Nov 12, 2021
41
C
Spencer (2021)
Spencer is self-absorbed and monotonous, like a parody of a great art film rather than the real deal
Posted Nov 8, 2021
42
C-
Eternals (2021)
43
The Rescue (2021)
44
Soy Cubana (2021)
45
Luchadoras (2021)
46
Cow (2022)
There are real moments of amazement within the hand-held images of Magda Kowalczyk punctuated by Arnold's typically comic use of music.
Posted Nov 4, 2021
47
Attica (2021)
48
B+
White Building (2021)
49
A-
Happening (2021)
To its credit it doesn't feel like a polemic but is merely matter-of-fact about the insanity and ignorance that springs from invasive laws around women's bodies.
Posted Nov 2, 2021
50
B+
Mother Lode (2021)