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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/4
Host (2020)
Savage has breathed refreshing life into a sub-genre that has long been floundering for new inspirations.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
2
3/4
Savage Streets (1984)
Say what you will about over-the-top enthusiasm in movies like these, here is a woman who is comfortable chewing the scenery until she is licking her lips in satisfaction.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
3
3/4
Eaten Alive (1977)
A film like this endures as entertainment because all the performances are pitched at that joyous trajectory of cartoonish excess.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
4
2.5/4
The Wraith (1986)
It does not achieve the same absurdist grandeur of, say, "Sky Bandits" or "Mannequin," which are essentially live action cartoons. But it means well.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
5
3.5/4
Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
If "Unfriended" showed this idea in a state of awkward infancy, then "Unfriended: Dark Web" allows it to mature into a proverbial, meticulous beast.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
6
3/4
Hatchet (2006)
The movie is a triumphant reminder of the plausibility of physical showmanship.
Posted Apr 23, 2020
7
0.5/4
Cats (2019)
8
2.5/4
Pompeii (2014)
9
0/4
Dirty Love (2005)
Each moment, more unfunny than the last, is a record of underachievers who are so far in over their head that they have lost the will to break the chains of their prison.
Posted Apr 23, 2020
10
0.5/4
The Lonely Lady (1983)
This may be the most shamelessly evasive drama ever written.
Posted Apr 23, 2020
11
3/4
Summer of '84 (2018)
12
2/4
Marriage Story (2019)
13
2.5/4
In the final frames, after enduring what amounts to the bludgeoning of an entire idea, one can't help but wish the more thrilling original film was playing on screen instead.
Posted Apr 23, 2020
14
4/4
Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
15
3.5/4
The Lighthouse (2019)
A total exercise in style, brought to glorious excess by showy performances and visual gimmicks right out of an ambitious nightmare.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
16
1.5/4
Joker (2019)
If Arthur Fleck reflects the same cultural alienation that creates mass shooters and serial killers, the movie cuts away too often to establish a cogent argument.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
17
3.5/4
Ad Astra (2019)
The movie is an audacious, agonizing, engrossing meditation on personal isolation.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
18
3/4
The Burning (1981)
19
3/4
It Chapter Two (2019)
There are a great many moments and sequences scattered across "It Chapter Two." On the other hand, audiences might take issue with there being so many.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
20
0/4
The Condemned (2007)
One of the most deplorable movie-going experiences of my life.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
21
3.5/4
The movie's greatest strength is in how it isolates precious moments among characters - some loving, others sad, many foretelling of darker realities.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
22
1/4
Children of the Corn (1984)
This is not a story that was ever destined to work on film.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
23
2.5/4
24
3/4
Midsommar (2019)
As a stamina test, the movie is as exciting as it is startling.
Posted Nov 9, 2019
25
4/4
One of the most striking and profound discoveries of the year.
Posted Jul 15, 2019
26
3/4
Christine (1983)
One of the more effective screen treatments of the era, however corny or preposterous it may remain on paper.
Posted Jul 15, 2019
27
1.5/4
Dark Phoenix (2019)
A thoughtless and mechanical descent into nonsense, with nothing standing at the center other than a myriad of conflicting arcs and questionable motives.
Posted Jul 15, 2019
28
4/4
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
29
3.5/4
Zelig (1983)
30
1/4
Under the Silver Lake (2019)
This isn't a creative dive at all, it is a suicide bomb masquerading as an audacious shift in direction.
Posted May 8, 2019
31
0.5/4
Movie 43 (2013)
By the end you can't entirely be sure whether you have watched a film or participated in a eulogy for the careers of its participants.
Posted May 8, 2019
32
3/4
Us (2019)
Peele is slowly emerging as one of the most exciting provocateurs of modern horror films. "Us" is further proof of that.
Posted Apr 16, 2019
33
3/4
The Head Hunter (2019)
34
3.5/4
Climax (2019)
A work of visceral madness. Profoundly engrossing.
Posted Apr 4, 2019
35
4/4
Transit (2019)
Phenomenal. A near-perfect lament on conflicted human behaviors.
Posted Mar 27, 2019
36
2/4
The Hole in the Ground (2019)
The Hole in the Ground shows a promising talent finessing the notes of his song without formulating it into plausible music.
Posted Mar 12, 2019
37
1/4
The Happytime Murders (2018)
90 minutes of laughless, mean-spirited hogwash
Posted Mar 12, 2019
38
3/4
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Decent and watchable, without being nearly as resonant as it should be.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
39
1/4
The Emoji Movie (2017)
You know you are in the middle of something cynical when the most interesting character in a cartoon is a walking digital hand whining about no longer being popular.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
40
3.5/4
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
41
1/4
If it's laughs you are after, however unintentional, this movie provides all the precious morsels. Starting with the idea that anyone felt the need to make it.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
42
0.5/4
An insult to anyone in the audience who has two brain cells to rub together.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
43
3.5/4
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Even cynics of this formula will leave the theater feeling thankful for the chance to engage with a delightful spectacle rather than a pointless retread.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
44
3.5/4
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2010)
We watch on and on - sometimes in horror, often in confusion, and always in complete awe of its strange and perplexing energy.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
45
1.5/4
Twilight (2008)
Like most great psychological lessons in the hands of novices, this is a story far more interested in dancing to rhythms than understanding melody.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
46
4/4
Hell House LLC (2015)
47
4/4
The Favourite (2018)
Lanthimos has made a film that plays like a diabolical union between Ken Russell and Robert Bresson, full of savage rhythms and emotional distance.
Posted Jan 1, 2019
48
1.5/4
Whatever merits we attach to the first film in this series, they are all but abandoned somewhere in the mess of a follow-up.
Posted Jan 1, 2019
49
3/4
The House That Jack Built (2018)
In between killings and mutilations are verbal rationalizations that underline the violence with startling clarity.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
50
4/4
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Unpredictable and masterful.
Posted Dec 2, 2018