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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
One Man and His Shoes (2020)
2
5/5
His House (2020)
At every turn there is more going on here, layers building under the story.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
3
4/5
The Climb (2020)
You realise that what you're watching is an epic disguised as scuffed indie comedy, a portrait of adult friendship in which no one ever completely grows up.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
4
3/5
Summer of 85 (Été 85) (2020)
The tone is oddly vanilla all round, in the end just one more film ticked off for Ozon.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
5
4/5
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Baron Cohen is still willing to Go There.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
6
4/5
The Other Lamb (2020)
Take the film as a pared-back cousin to The Handmaid's Tale. But if some elements seem familiar, Szumowska has aces of her own to play.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
7
3/5
Rebecca (2020)
Remaking Hitchcock is no job for the faint-hearted, but Wheatley has a plan, an anti-auteurist strategy that lets others put their mark on proceedings too.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
8
4/5
Time (2020)
A film of rare profundity and breathtaking intimacy.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
9
4/5
Totally Under Control (2020)
A definitively American story - what happens when the desire to be free from government extends to government itself, as nearly 8m people sicken.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
10
3/5
I Am Greta (2020)
The film just tags along, blank and puppyish.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
11
3/5
Kajillionaire (2020)
The unexpected pleasure of Kajillionaire is that, with the singsong delivery dialled down just a notch, you can hear yourself think long enough to decide.
Posted Oct 7, 2020
12
4/5
Saint Maud (2020)
Some debuts tug at your sleeve; others take your arm off.
Posted Oct 7, 2020
13
4/5
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
The promise of empowerment could lead to clichéd uplift, but the movie is too smart for that.
Posted Oct 7, 2020
14
3/5
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Sorkin has no plan for the camera beyond pointing it at his stars, but he lets their performances grow large and moreish.
Posted Sep 30, 2020
15
4/5
On The Rocks (2020)
Kudos to Coppola and her leading man. It takes guts to rewrite your biggest hit.
Posted Sep 30, 2020
16
3/5
My Zoe (2019)
The film moves... into the grandly Promethean, but keeps its place too in the cool European everyday. Combining both is its own experiment, bold and intriguing.
Posted Sep 30, 2020
17
4/5
Eternal Beauty (2019)
18
Burning An Illusion (1981)
A movie that begins with a buoyant free-fall individualism ends up like a speak-your-fate agitprop manifesto.
Posted Sep 23, 2020
19
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
[The Secret of NIMH] is a cornucopia of visual wonders bravely, but finally vainly, in search of a good story.
Posted Sep 23, 2020
20
Rocky III (1982)
21
3/5
If Piketty is a rock star, the film paints capitalism as a supergroup whose biggest hits were hugely popular, but are long in the past. New material has not been well received.
Posted Sep 23, 2020
22
3/5
Enola Holmes (2020)
Even if the message of empowerment has a flat-pack quality, all involved have clearly been told: have fun! It goes a long way...
Posted Sep 23, 2020
23
4/5
Monsoon (2020)
Most film-makers would crank the themes loud. But Khaou is never less than measured in his study of place and displacement, careful as a gymnast on a beam.
Posted Sep 23, 2020
24
4/5
Final Account (2020)
Holland reminds us - if recent images of neo-Nazis storming the steps of the Reichstag haven't already - of another disease that demands constant vigilance.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
25
3/5
Apples (Mila) (2020)
Very much in the vein of what has been dubbed the Greek "weird wave", it may also delight admirers of Swedish absurdist Roy Andersson with its drily humorous tableaux.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
26
4/5
Swinton is every bit the ardent Almodóvar heroine and this short film whets the appetite for a more fulsome future collaboration between the Spanish director and Scottish star.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
27
3/5
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Somehow it works. Remarkably, you may party on.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
28
4/5
The Devil All the Time (2020)
These characters aren't circus acts - just desperate messes, only human like the rest of us. Amid the American guignol, Campos finds actual pathos.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
29
4/5
Rocks (2020)
The whole movie has the... sense of deftly controlled chaos, powered not by screenwritten speeches but the unpredictable, unmistakable rhythm of real life.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
30
3/5
White Riot (2019)
Wisely, Shah keep things punky and to-the-point.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
31
4/5
Nomadland (2020)
For the making of the film - which she wrote as well as directed - Zhao immersed herself in this subculture and she immerses us too.
Posted Sep 11, 2020
32
3/5
Real (2020)
Good love stories are hard to find - consider this one of them.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
33
3/5
Max Richter's Sleep (2020)
[A] diverting documentary...
Posted Sep 10, 2020
34
Director Nicholas Meyer plays off the light and the dark of the story against each other with flair and command.
Posted Sep 9, 2020
35
3/5
The Roads Not Taken (2020)
A sad, timely story of family and fragility.
Posted Sep 9, 2020
36
4/5
The Painted Bird (2020)
With rare commitment, Marhoul sets himself to portraying such all-consuming human depravity, the only response is to crumple.
Posted Sep 9, 2020
37
3/5
The Social Dilemma (2020)
Flawed in several places and still essential viewing.
Posted Sep 9, 2020
38
5/5
Memories of Murder (2003)
39
4/5
The Disciple (2020)
The truth lies inward, The Disciple teaches us - and it often hurts.
Posted Sep 7, 2020
40
3/5
Mainstream (2020)
Mainstream takes a while (and a lot of hipster costume changes) to get there, but it eventually throws up some pertinent questions to ponder...
Posted Sep 7, 2020
41
4/5
Mandibles (Mandibules) (2020)
Dupieux milks all the comedy he can from the slender concept, and knows not to outstay his welcome.
Posted Sep 7, 2020
42
4/5
The Duke (2020)
The script by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman is full of delightfully droll dialogue, and director Roger Michell keeps things as light and sharp as lemon soufflé.
Posted Sep 7, 2020
43
4/5
The World to Come (2020)
Heartwarming and heartbreaking.
Posted Sep 7, 2020
44
3/5
Mulan (2020)
A briskly efficient action movie of meticulous transnational appeal, one that is only now and then clearly working on tiptoes.
Posted Sep 3, 2020
45
4/5
The result is not a horror movie exactly, but all the more unnerving for being played at a pitch of jangling disquiet when people are simply passing the vegetables.
Posted Sep 2, 2020
46
4/5
Les Misérables (2020)
Ly is a deft orchestrator of story - and chaos.
Posted Sep 2, 2020
47
4/5
Socrates (2019)
If one coup of Moratto's film is our instant bond with star Christian Malheiros, another is that a film can feel so measured with this much drama in such close quarters.
Posted Sep 2, 2020
48
3/5
Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
49
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Above all Lee Garmes' exquisite photography is a tribute to the craft of the Hollywood cameraman in the great days.
Posted Sep 2, 2020
50
Villain (1971)