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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Beloved (1998)
Everything that Morrison left inspirationally unsaid the film says.
Posted Feb 2, 2022
2
2/5
Flag Day (2021)
That Penn doesn't want to make a straight crime thriller is laudable - less clear is what he wants to make instead.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
3
3/5
The movie is most fluent on the rise to corporate prominence of its subject, emerging as a peer to the first wave of big tech gurus.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
4
4/5
Almodóvar is not typically one for messages, but... hard-won truths gleam from his quietly knockout new movie.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
5
4/5
The film delivers no end of joy.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
6
4/5
Taming the Garden (2021)
[An] extraordinary film...
Posted Jan 27, 2022
7
4/5
My Old School (2022)
From very early on the film becomes a fascinating investigation of memory.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
8
The Watermelon Woman (1997)
[Dunye] deals with her high-flying themes (sexuality, race, history) with a deft, low-budget touch.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
9
3/5
A Journal for Jordan (2021)
10
4/5
Mass (2021)
Movies trade in closure. Mass is honest enough to admit it is not always there to be had.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
11
3/5
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Telling a story of alcoholism and despair, Del Toro just makes a movie, delivered in quote marks, polished to a shine. (Far too long as well.)
Posted Jan 20, 2022
12
4/5
Belfast (2021)
It lights up the dark, the way even now a fill-um can.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
13
4/5
Ascension (2021)
Crucially, the film never patronises. Is anyone learning anything westerners haven't learned too, just less explicitly?
Posted Jan 13, 2022
14
4/5
Cow (2022)
[A] stark, quietly provocative film...
Posted Jan 13, 2022
15
4/5
Memoria (2021)
16
2/5
Scream (2022)
Back to basics, it vows. A noble aim. The result would be more fun if the basics were better.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
17
3/5
The 355 (2022)
Around the point where you'd be down to half-popped kernels and snack rubble, it raises the stakes and gets grittier and more compelling than you expected.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
18
3/5
A Hero (2022)
Farhadi comes home to make yet another subtle, layered dissection of modern morality among the Iranian middle class.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
19
4/5
Boiling Point (2021)
The clatter and choreography is thrilling. As with real restaurant staff, the film-makers sweat for our entertainment.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
20
3/5
Munich: The Edge of War (2022)
A sad, bold-spirited film about the see-saw of political reputation, and the treachery of hope.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
21
2/5
Naked Singularity (2021)
22
4/5
A study of an English eccentric that is bittersweetly honest about what eccentricity might really mean.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
23
4/5
The Humans (2021)
24
5/5
Licorice Pizza (2021)
25
3/5
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
The aesthetic is a perfect fit for the mood of dread and things askew.
Posted Dec 22, 2021
26
3/5
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Fan service at least provides a reason for being. Otherwise, the project can feel inexplicable.
Posted Dec 22, 2021
27
1/5
The King's Man (2021)
28
3/5
Titane (2021)
Your mileage will almost certainly vary. It all depends on how highly elevated you like your Gallic horror.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
29
4/5
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
30
3/5
Swan Song (2021)
Ali is very nearly the best thing in it, poignant and real. The actual best thing is Harris, still waiting for the starring role her talent deserves.
Posted Dec 16, 2021
31
2/5
The Tender Bar (2021)
A film of passive mediocrity, a sentimental journey that takes a long time figuring out where it wants to go.
Posted Dec 15, 2021
32
4/5
The Lost Daughter (2021)
[A] bold, sharp-cornered film - one as admirably un-eager to please as the woman it portrays.
Posted Dec 15, 2021
33
4/5
Lamb (2021)
Much about director Valdimar Jóhannsson's film has the timeless feel of the ancient folk tale you feel it must be, but isn't.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
34
3/5
Being the Ricardos (2021)
The film is percussive; never even vaguely dull.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
35
2/5
Don't Look Up (2021)
The movie proceeds as bitter, zany war game. What if the world was ending and everyone stared at their phone? Except - ah no - that's reality.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
36
5/5
West Side Story (2021)
Cynicism will wither on contact with the movie, one that feels exactly like a film made in tribute to a cherished memory.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
37
3/5
C'mon C'mon (2021)
If the movie can feel just a little curated, what it tells us is worth hearing anyway. Generationally, to listen and learn should always be a two-way street.
Posted Dec 2, 2021
38
3/5
Silent Night (2021)
39
2/5
Encounter (2021)
If it feels a bad sign to see Octavia Spencer this underused, listen to your instinct. And keep watching the skies.
Posted Dec 2, 2021
40
4/5
41
4/5
The First Wave (2021)
This is war reportage. But unpacking the metaphor of battle, so casually thrown around in the past 21 months, is part of the film's value.
Posted Nov 25, 2021
42
3/5
Bruised (2021)
Against quite some odds, the film feels real. Next time, just make it half the length.
Posted Nov 25, 2021
43
3/5
Stone being Stone, all is instantly conclusive. As usual too, the distinction is not always clear between declassified papers and assorted, malevolent stuff.
Posted Nov 25, 2021
44
2/5
House of Gucci (2021)
House of Gucci is not only a bad film, but a bad advert for cinema.
Posted Nov 24, 2021
45
3/5
King Richard (2021)
A grown-up crowd-pleaser, built on an old-school grandstand star turn.
Posted Nov 18, 2021
46
4/5
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Campion works with a sure touch and epic sweep.
Posted Nov 18, 2021
47
3/5
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Your response to the aggressively wistful Ghostbusters: Afterlife may depend on the strength of your connection to the original.
Posted Nov 18, 2021
48
5/5
Petite Maman (2021)
Is the film a shivery gothic? Sci-fi? A fairytale? A little of each and entirely itself, a brief masterpiece of parents and childhood, past and future.
Posted Nov 17, 2021
49
2/5
Red Notice (2021)
When the story winks at Raiders of the Lost Ark, the effect is to remind you of other, older spectaculars made in better faith.
Posted Nov 11, 2021
50
5/5
7 Prisoners (7 prisioneiros) (2021)