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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
Locked Down (2021)
The surprise movie drop is becoming a staple of the pandemic - and you know what, I'm all for it.
Posted Jan 15, 2021
2
3/5
Promising Young Woman (2020)
There are problems with Promising Young Woman that no cello cover of Britney Spears's Toxic can paper over.
Posted Jan 15, 2021
3
2/5
The Minimalists: Less Is Now (2020)
The result, ironically, is a cluttered and messy documentary that feels much longer than its running time.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
4
3/5
Soul (2020)
5
2/5
The Midnight Sky (2020)
Clooney plays an ailing astronomer staring down the end of the world in this terminally flawed Netflix drama...
Posted Dec 29, 2020
6
2/5
News of the World (2020)
A white guilt trip that awkwardly tiptoes around colonial violence and limits Indigenous characters to archetypes. They're discussed as savages or they show up as magic Indians.
Posted Dec 25, 2020
7
2/5
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
WW84 ends up being this cycle's Superman III, trying to be everything to everyone... and coming up short in every way.
Posted Dec 24, 2020
8
4/5
Palm Springs (2020)
Maybe Palm Springs should be the last time-loop movie. It certainly sends the genre out on a high.
Posted Dec 16, 2020
9
3/5
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
We're perfectly satisfied seeing Chadwick Boseman go big with it, even if it seems like he's performing for the audience at the back of a theatre.
Posted Dec 14, 2020
10
4/5
Let Them All Talk (2020)
11
3/5
Freaky (2020)
The latest from Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon is basically Freaky Friday The 13th - and it's a lot of fun...
Posted Dec 11, 2020
12
3/5
The Prom (2020)
Despite pacing problems and a miscast James Corden, this starry adaptation of the Broadway musical scores big laughs...
Posted Dec 11, 2020
13
4/5
The El Duce Tapes (2019)
A grimy, prickly found-footage project that looks at the shock-rock scene of the early 90s through the story of The Mentors...
Posted Dec 10, 2020
14
4/5
Mayor (2020)
15
Hamilton (2020)
16
5/5
Rocks (2020)
The cast led by Bukky Bakray and Kosar Ali are unbelievably charming and infectious. In a just world, these rockstars would become household names.
Posted Dec 8, 2020
17
4/5
Time (2020)
Beautiful, patient and inspiring, Bradley's experiential doc captures how much life happens while you sit around waiting for justice and empathy.
Posted Dec 8, 2020
18
4/5
19
5/5
Gunda (2020)
Kossakosky's achingly beautiful black-and-white documentary is ground-breaking and wondrous for its intimacy,
Posted Dec 8, 2020
20
5/5
Nomadland (2020)
21
2/5
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Director Ron Howard seems particularly uneasy with the material, unable to frame Bev and Mamaw's stories in a way that makes them human.
Posted Dec 2, 2020
22
2/5
Mank (2020)
23
3/5
Funny Boy (2020)
24
4/5
The Curve (2020)
25
3/5
The Donut King (2020)
Most of all, the main narrative offers inspiration, which is particularly pertinent at such a troubled time in our world.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
26
1/5
Come Play (2020)
Gillian Jacobs does her level best to save Jacob Chase's incredibly dumb horror movie about an internet monster.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
27
3/5
28
4/5
I Am Greta (2020)
Greta is an accidental hero of our times propelled to the world stage seemingly overnight, but that status suffocates and stifles her, as this doc highlights.
Posted Nov 16, 2020
29
4/5
Dating Amber (2020)
[It] creates moments of empowering connection. And the film builds a world around them that feels oppressive without overdoing it...
Posted Nov 16, 2020
30
3/5
I can't fault Herzog for finding a way to finance his curiosity...
Posted Nov 16, 2020
31
Game Change (2012)
32
Burn After Reading (2008)
Washington farce...with a perfectly cast Brad Pitt...
Posted Nov 9, 2020
33
34
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
35
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
36
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
John Frankenheimer's cracked masterpiece...
Posted Nov 9, 2020
37
The Martian (2015)
[Damon] is supported by a top-flight cast that includes Jessica Chastain, Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Aksel Hennie...
Posted Nov 9, 2020
38
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Everyone has their own specific definition of comfort food. Dean Parisot's pitch-perfect send-up/embrace of Star Trek fandom sits near the top of my list.
Posted Nov 9, 2020
39
Charade (1963)
Honestly, if you're looking for a glossy, weightless diversion, this is a fine one.
Posted Nov 9, 2020
40
3/5
Watson (2019)
Watson is a vivid storyteller and a charismatic screen presence, fully conscious of the power of media.
Posted Nov 9, 2020
41
5/5
Memories of Murder (2003)
It's a knockout. Don't miss it.
Posted Nov 9, 2020
42
4/5
Happy Place (2020)
It might seem counterintuitive to watch a movie about people under impossible stress right now, but if you're up for a well-crafted trip through the wringer, Happy Place does the job.
Posted Nov 9, 2020
43
2/5
Watch it for Rudolph, Mirren and a clever parody of a Jordan Peele movie set at Mar-a-Lago. In a rushed, underwhelming special, those are the only things that are fine.
Posted Nov 4, 2020
44
2/5
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Maybe it's just an issue of diminishing returns...
Posted Oct 23, 2020
45
3/5
Rebecca (2020)
Netflix's Rebecca remake can't escape Hitchcock's shadow...
Posted Oct 16, 2020
46
47
4/5
Scare Me (2020)
Most of Scare Me is simply the two leads performing for one another, with the remarkable Cash having a marvelous time as the versatile, committed Fanny.
Posted Oct 6, 2020
48
4/5
Save Yourselves! (2020)
...while writer/directors Fischer and Wilson don't quite stick the landing, they do end on a final image of eerie, ambiguous beauty.
Posted Oct 6, 2020
49
3/5
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
50
3/5
Possessor: Uncut (2020)
Riseborough and Abbott are both fascinating here...
Posted Oct 6, 2020