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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
1/5
Blithe Spirit (2020)
Hall recycles the set-up as pure missing trousers farce filled with smirky running jokes forced to keep going until they drop sobbing to their knees.
Posted Jan 14, 2021
2
2/5
Stardust (2020)
The clunk of it all is deafening, the dialogue booby-trapped.
Posted Jan 14, 2021
3
4/5
MLK/FBI (2021)
If Hollywood showcased the FBI as Hoover wanted it seen, Pollard spotlights another story, one that modern America tells about its past.
Posted Jan 14, 2021
4
4/5
Dear Comrades! (2021)
A dazzling, coldly furious account of events that year in Novocherkassk.
Posted Jan 14, 2021
5
4/5
Mother (2019)
[An] unblinking but admirably impartial film.
Posted Jan 11, 2021
6
3/5
Robin's Wish (2020)
Director Tylor Norwood's film is modestly scaled, a loving correction of the record rather than attempted biography.
Posted Jan 6, 2021
7
4/5
One Night in Miami (2020)
The result is a celebration with jagged edges, history alive with contemporary echoes.
Posted Jan 6, 2021
8
3/5
Pieces of a Woman (2020)
The movie has moments that are almost overwhelming. The trouble is, there are other moments. Many other moments.
Posted Jan 6, 2021
9
4/5
Ham on Rye (2020)
A film that resembles the American Pie franchise as reimagined by conceptual artist Matthew Barney.
Posted Jan 6, 2021
10
4/5
Sylvie's Love (2020)
The whole movie is so tied up with the old-fashioned way of things you would have to call it pastiche. But be aware - a twist awaits.
Posted Dec 23, 2020
11
4/5
Soul (2020)
Soul finds the company doing the minor-chord uplift it does so well, even an inch short of top form.
Posted Dec 23, 2020
12
4/5
Cockroach (2020)
A looming vision of a collective future, one in which autocracies everywhere deploy brute force and facial recognition software.
Posted Dec 23, 2020
13
3/5
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)
A heady vérité portrait of Las Vegas dive bar the Roaring 20s.
Posted Dec 21, 2020
14
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Elsewhere flat characterisation and flimsy subplots -- who ever dreamed up those Nazis? -- numb the brain and add up to an expense of spirit in a waste of time, talent and money.
Posted Dec 21, 2020
15
4/5
Farewell Amor (2020)
An accomplished feature film debut from writer and director Ekwa Msangi.
Posted Dec 16, 2020
16
3/5
The Midnight Sky (2020)
There are also long inert drags in which we might as well be watching Clooney's enormous beard growing, in real time.
Posted Dec 16, 2020
17
3/5
Let Him Go (2020)
Bezucha's pulpy 1950s-set neo-Western is full of tobacco-chewing performances and backwoods clichés. But the explosive face-off between two formidable grannies is a blast.
Posted Dec 16, 2020
18
4/5
Le Sorelle Macaluso (2020)
It's a hauntingly lovely, strikingly unusual portrait of family trauma.
Posted Dec 16, 2020
19
4/5
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
20
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
21
Harem (1985)
[Harem] seems to be intended as a thinking man's Valentino movie. Unfortunately it is more like a sleeping man's Valentino movie.
Posted Dec 14, 2020
22
Howard the Duck (1986)
23
5/5
Red Penguins (2020)
24
2/5
The Prom (2020)
Screamingly extroverted, shamelessly indulgent and as shiny and artificial as a set of dental veneers, Ryan Murphy's The Prom is a big, hammy exhibitionist of a movie.
Posted Dec 10, 2020
25
4/5
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
While the declamatory style - Wilson's words are very much the stars here - will not be for everyone, the quality of the acting redeems the picture's theatricality.
Posted Dec 10, 2020
26
4/5
Il Mio Corpo (2020)
27
4/5
I'm Your Woman (2020)
Jean's arc, and the bloodbath that ensues, is the most traditional element in this otherwise bracingly unconventional crime picture.
Posted Dec 10, 2020
28
4/5
What makes Coppola's movie fascinating now is its Darwinian self-knowledge. "The new overthrows the old, it's natural," Michael shrugs, and he was speaking for them both.
Posted Dec 5, 2020
29
4/5
Mank (2020)
30
3/5
Dreamland (2019)
The movie sets out to make Robbie a rock star but doesn't give her a tune; it wants to say something about sex and violence but ends up tongue tied.
Posted Dec 5, 2020
31
5/5
Us and you, Byrne says - that's the show.
Posted Dec 5, 2020
32
4/5
Martha: A Picture Story (2019)
Miles's seeming reluctance to impose a narrative on the material means her film ends up mostly being one picture after another. Still, at least the pictures are fantastic.
Posted Dec 1, 2020
33
3/5
Audrey (2020)
What the best of the film gets at is the machinery behind the magic.
Posted Nov 28, 2020
34
3/5
Happiest Season (2020)
It takes no small nerve for a contemporary Christmas movie to flat-out namecheck It's a Wonderful Life. No little skill to remind us it can be.
Posted Nov 28, 2020
35
3/5
Man's inhumanity is a shopworn medley of Hobbes and Bosch, the lot of the zombies to be mere fodder, mown down or picked off.
Posted Nov 28, 2020
36
4/5
The Mystery Of DB Cooper (2020)
37
3/5
Belushi (2020)
Belushi's story is heavy on the "what-might-have-been", which leaves much scope for fondness and generosity.
Posted Nov 21, 2020
38
2/5
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
39
4/5
Billie (2020)
The portrait of Holiday is rich and nuanced.
Posted Nov 21, 2020
40
5/5
Collective (Colectiv) (2020)
For all the horror, Nanau is an exhilarating film-maker, trusting us to keep pace without talking heads.
Posted Nov 21, 2020
41
4/5
Offended by Irvine Welsh (2020)
42
5/5
The Night Notre Dame Burned (2020)
It's unbearably gripping as Paris fire chief General Gallet briefs Macron.
Posted Nov 18, 2020
43
4/5
Lucky Grandma (2020)
Lucky Grandma has all the hallmarks of an old-school cult favourite.
Posted Nov 11, 2020
44
3/5
The Life Ahead (2020)
Ponti gets rid of nuance with the urgency of a man shooing pigeons. But of course, he does have a rare talent - the ability to cast Loren.
Posted Nov 11, 2020
45
4/5
46
4/5
Looted (2019)
The movie is raw, elegiac and, for van Pannevis, filled with promise.
Posted Nov 6, 2020
47
4/5
Miscarriage: Our Story (2020)
The programme's broad trajectory is of happiness, crushing despair, and eventual joy, though sadly not for everyone.
Posted Nov 4, 2020
48
3/5
Obsession, intellect, consumerism, conspiracy, all are here - and encompassing them is the white noise of the mass media, the bedlam hum of 24-hour television news.
Posted Nov 4, 2020
49
5/5
50
4/5
Love Child (2020)