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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2.5/5
Fatman (2020)

Don Kaye

The Nelms want to say something about a world where a kid puts a hit on Santa and the old man himself is taking money from the military, but it's never quite clear what their message is or what tone they're aiming for.
Posted Nov 23, 2020
2
5/5
Happiest Season (2020)

Natalie Zutter

You'll want to spend every future Christmas with Abby, Harper, and DuVall.
Posted Nov 19, 2020
3
4/5
Run (2020)

Don Kaye

It's also a hell of a lot of fun on a basic B-movie level, thanks to Chaganty's expert control of tone, his superb crafting of suspense sequences, and excellent work from Paulson and Allen.
Posted Nov 18, 2020
4
3.5/5
Freaky (2020)

Rosie Fletcher

It's such a perfect concept for a horror comedy it's a wonder no one has done it before.
Posted Nov 12, 2020
5
2.5/5
Ammonite (2020)

David Crow

Winslet and her film have more heat when it's just her and the rocks.
Posted Nov 12, 2020
6
3/5
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

Don Kaye

The soap opera-ish aspects of Hillbilly Elegy doesn't take away from the strength of the individual performances and the sense of empathy toward the characters
Posted Nov 11, 2020
7
5/5
Mank (2020)

David Crow

Mank luxuriates in the written word to a greater degree than any Fincher film since The Social Network, and with a highly literate script, it takes on the rapid-fire cadence of an early 1930s talkie.
Posted Nov 6, 2020
8
White Noise (2020)

David Crow

Unlike other documentaries that study the modern far-right in American life from a distance, Lombroso's film is the only one doing it from the inside looking out.
Posted Oct 27, 2020
9
3.5/5
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Nick Harley

Though the sheen and shock has worn off in Borat's second outing, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm still hangs together more as a narrative feature than a collection of funny bits.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
10
3/5
The Witches (2020)

David Crow

Hathaway plays her diva witch as closer to how one imagines Madeline Kahn's Lili Von Shtupp might've auditioned for the role of Maleficent.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
11
3.5/5
On The Rocks (2020)

David Crow

There is an intimate familiarity about the New York of On the Rocks, which contrasts Lost in Translation. Whereas Tokyo was enigmatic and unknowable, this is a Manhattan that Coppola and her stars move through with absolute certainty.
Posted Oct 20, 2020
12
2.5/5
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)

Natalie Zutter

A Babysitter's Guide doesn't take enough advantage of the holiday's invitation for mischief and mayhem, let alone costumes and alter egos. Shadow monsters aside, this could have taken place any old night.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
13
4/5
Rebecca (2020)

Don Kaye

It takes a certain amount of cojones to remake a movie by Alfred Hitchcock... yet Wheatley largely manages to pull off the attempt, with caveats.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
14
4/5
Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Duncan Bowles

Works as a healthy reminder of how superb horror can be, balancing tragedy and humour and making me yearn for a return to using strong actors and plot to give the genre the respect it really deserves.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
15
4.5/5
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

David Crow

Perhaps more than any other film he's authored to date, Chicago 7 is a Sorkin experiment... and it might be his most interrogative screenplay of the ideals he so reveres.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
16
4/5
Over the Moon (2020)

Natalie Zutter

Parents may wind up ugly-sobbing while their children dance along to Chang'e's pop numbers...
Posted Oct 9, 2020
17
2/5
The Lie (2020)

Rosie Fletcher

By the time the final utterly idiotic twist arrives, you'll be screaming for your time back and angry with what seems to be an otherwise talented cast and crew, Jason Blum included, for tricking you into watching such nonsense.
Posted Oct 7, 2020
18
2.5/5
Hubie Halloween (2020)

Kirsten Howard

On a sliding scale of Netflix's Sandler films, Hubie Halloween sits somewhere in the middle.
Posted Oct 7, 2020
19
2.5/5
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

Don Kaye

If The Wolf of Snow Hollow sounds somewhat like a genre-flavored remake of Cummings' debut, the micro-budget comedy-drama Thunder Road, that wouldn't be wildly off-base.
Posted Oct 7, 2020
20
2/5
Books of Blood (2020)

David Crow

I'd like to say... Books of Blood lands closer to the hypnotic thrall of Hellraiser or Candyman, but this messy and ultimately garish film goes down like '80s junk of the Rawhead Rex variety.
Posted Oct 7, 2020
21
4.5/5
Kajillionaire (2020)

Natalie Zutter

It's been a weird year, but regardless of what world this would have come out in, Kajillionaire is one of the best films of 2020.
Posted Sep 26, 2020
22
3/5
Enola Holmes (2020)

Natalie Zutter

There will always be a need for stories that carve out spaces in history for people other than white men, and a plucky girl detective who knows her way around a corset and a cryptograph is herself a much-needed role model.
Posted Sep 22, 2020
23
2/5
Come True (2020)

Don Kaye

A misfire all around that sent us quickly into dreamland.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
24
2.5/5
The Mortuary Collection (2019)

Don Kaye

There is some attempt at atmospherics and lots of gore, but the scares are non-existent and the stories just sort of sputter out without the punchy endings often associated with this subgenre.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
25
2.5/5
The Block Island Sound (2020)

Don Kaye

[It] is hampered by uneven acting and a somewhat undercooked script that shows its cards early and doesn't really go anywhere from there.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
26
3/5
Sleep (Schlaf) (2020)

Don Kaye

Sleep is assured in its vision and imagery even if it's derivative of David Lynch and other practitioners of the macabre.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
27
3/5
Minor Premise (2020)

Don Kaye

Minor Premise is ambitious and cerebral, if a little too dense..
Posted Sep 21, 2020
28
3/5
Lucky (2020)

Don Kaye

Lucky stretches a bit too much to sustain itself effectively over its relatively brief 80 minutes, but this is still a movie with vision and guts from director Natasha Kermani.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
29
3.5/5
Lapsis (2020)

Don Kaye

Lapsis is a slow burn, with a final scene that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but Hutton has crafted a very distinct, pertinent vision.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
30
3.5/5
The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

Don Kaye

The atmosphere is thick with dread from start to finish, and the images shocking and nightmarish.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
31
3.5/5
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business (2020)

Don Kaye

It's still a worthy guide for anyone who dares to travel this path.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
32
4/5
PVT CHAT (2020)

Don Kaye

It's a small film, but it says a lot about love, loneliness and sex in the age of virtual life.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
33
4/5
12 Hour Shift (2020)

Don Kaye

Writer/director Brea Grant allows herself a few self-indulgent moments, but overall this is a lot of fun.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
34
4/5
Fried Barry (2020)

Don Kaye

Think of this as the hard-R version of E.T.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
35
4.5/5
Class Action Park (2020)

Don Kaye

It's a sobering, thoughtful and, yes, hilarious film.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
36
The Way I See It (2020)

David Crow

This documentary offers an astonishing bit of whiplash by transporting us to the Obama Years-an era which feels like four years and a lifetime ago.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
37
The Water Man (2020)

David Crow

More classical Walt Disney than modern day Guillermo del Toro, there's still just enough shadow in Oyelowo's direction to give The Water Man shading.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
38
Pieces of a Woman (2020)

David Crow

If movies could win awards for their first 30 minutes, Pieces of a Woman would be a shoo-in.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
39
MLK/FBI (2021)

David Crow

The film doesn't ask to judge King so much as consider a broader portrait, bigger than the muck the FBI peddled, but maybe more complex and dimensional than what our marble statues also suggest. It makes him loom larger.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
40
I Am Greta (2020)

David Crow

The power of Nathan Grossman's doc is not that it only chronicles Greta's high points of speaking truth to power... but it also undercuts some of the nastiest criticisms lobbied at her by certain world leaders.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
41
Joe Bell (2021)

David Crow

But as even Joe admits late in the picture, "I just made this all about Joe Bell." That's a problem when the movie's stronger with his son.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
42
Get the Hell Out (Tao Chu Li Fa Yuan) (2020)

David Crow

It's an amusing premise that could make for terrific sketch comedy or a YouTube video, which is about how long Get the Hell Out works.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
43
Concrete Cowboy (2020)

David Crow

The documentarian aspect of Concrete Cowboy is, at times, engrossing. Unfortunately, it suffers from being background to a rather generic and aloof coming-of-age story that is the film's center.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
44
Another Round (Druk) (2020)

David Crow

The sensation of indulging what you should know better about permeates director Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round, both for audiences and its protagonists.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
45
1.5/5
Antebellum (2020)

Valerie Complex

Not every horror film with a social message can be Get Out, and they shouldn't be striving to imitate that.
Posted Sep 20, 2020
46
3/5
The Nest (2020)

Don Kaye

While Durkin got a breakout performance from Elizabeth Olsen in the earlier movie, here he gets some of the finest work in the careers of both Jude Law and Carrie Coon.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
47
3.5/5
Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

David Crow

This is a bananas throwback that skips a slow middle section to head straight into a wild finale, which takes place around (and outside) the plane.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
48
4/5
The Devil All the Time (2020)

Delia Harrington

It's bleak, relentlessly so, but the incredible performances across the board make The Devil All the Time fascinating in a way that becomes almost addictive.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
49
4.5/5
Nomadland (2020)

David Crow

Images of these displaced Americans persevering in the margins can at times make Nomadland feel like a modern day Grapes of Wrath, save McDormand's version of Ma Joad travels only with her ghosts.
Posted Sep 14, 2020
50
4/5
I Care a Lot (2020)

David Crow

Not since Gone Girl has Rosamund Pike been so perilously irresistible. All toothy grins and smiling eyes, Pike's Marla enters every room as a ball of sunshine. But also like the sun, if you get too close, she'll burn you alive.
Posted Sep 13, 2020