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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/5
The Tender Bar (2021)
You'll enjoy The Tender Bar, and two days later you'll be struggling to remember a single thing that happens in it. I guess that's okay.
Posted Jan 10, 2022
2
4/5
King Richard (2021)
And although we know what eventually happens to Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton), the ending feels unpredictable and quietly inspiring...
Posted Jan 10, 2022
3
4/5
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
McDormand similarly rips into Lady Macbeth with the zeal of someone who's always wondered how she'd handle the role. Turns out she's a natural.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
4
1/5
The King's Man (2021)
You could celebrate the season watching Ralph Fiennes in one of the dumbest movies of the year, but why would you want to?
Posted Dec 22, 2021
5
2/5
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Neo, as you may recall, took the red pill. But The Matrix Resurrections takes the blue one, settling for rehashing the original film rather than reinventing the series.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
6
4/5
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley is not for everyone. But in the right light, it's a treasure.
Posted Dec 20, 2021
7
5/5
Licorice Pizza (2021)
8
2/5
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
9
5/5
West Side Story (2021)
The director's new adaptation of the Sondheim/Bernstein classic is a brilliant new remount, shaking the material back to life.
Posted Dec 10, 2021
10
3/5
C'mon C'mon (2021)
Some of C'mon C'mon's gestures - which position people of colour as props in a white family drama - can get icky.
Posted Nov 22, 2021
11
3/5
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Dunst packs a lifetime of hurt into a handful of moments as Rose...
Posted Nov 19, 2021
12
3/5
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Even when it gets clumsy - and maybe especially then - Afterlife's heart is in the right place.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
13
4/5
tick, tick...Boom! (2021)
This is a film that was made by theatre lovers - and it shows.
Posted Nov 15, 2021
14
2/5
Red Notice (2021)
I just wish I could cite a single moment that made me laugh out loud, or surprised me, or got my heart racing the way any of the movies Red Notice has digested...
Posted Nov 12, 2021
15
4/5
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Edgar Wright's latest applies the dream logic of Italian thrillers to its story of two young women living in London, half a century apart.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
16
3/5
The French Dispatch (2021)
I'd say this one's "for the fans," except I thought I was a fan too...the filmmaker's latest is never unpleasant, but feels like a collection of sketches for larger movies.
Posted Oct 22, 2021
17
2/5
Dave Chappelle: The Closer (2021)
What's frustrating about Chappelle's special is that there are bits of shrewd, intelligent observations in the act.
Posted Oct 22, 2021
18
4/5
The Harder They Fall (2021)
19
2/5
Halloween Kills (2021)
20
5/5
Mass (2021)
Kranz finds a centre of gravity in Linda that brings Dowd's performance to the fore, but the entire quartet is heartbreaking...
Posted Oct 15, 2021
21
5/5
Night Raiders (2021)
A dystopian thriller that feels utterly of the moment.
Posted Oct 15, 2021
22
4/5
Acts of Love (2021)
Bethel's documentary offers up a bold, brave look at intimacy, honesty and power dynamics.
Posted Oct 14, 2021
23
2/5
No Time To Die (2021)
Daniel Craig's cruel, blunt take on 007 remains incompatible with the franchise's need to give audiences the comfortable ride they demand.
Posted Oct 1, 2021
24
3/5
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
The sequel to the 2018 Marvel spinoff might not be good, exactly, but everyone's having a lot more fun this time...
Posted Oct 1, 2021
25
3/5
Cry Macho (2021)
I don't imagine I'll think too much more about Cry Macho, but I won't look back on it as a waste of time, either. At this point I'll consider that a win.
Posted Sep 17, 2021
26
4/5
Learn to Swim (2021)
You should see this movie.
Posted Sep 15, 2021
27
3/5
The Guilty (2021)
A nail-biting plot and a ferocious (if unrestrained) performance by Jake Gyllenhaal are the main reasons for watching this remake of the superior 2018 Danish thriller.
Posted Sep 15, 2021
28
4/5
Spencer (2021)
Like its enigmatic and tragic subject, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Spencer will haunt you.
Posted Sep 15, 2021
29
4/5
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
30
3/5
Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
Well-meaning and at times very effective...
Posted Sep 10, 2021
31
3/5
Playing God (2017)
There's a profound moral question at the heart of this profile of American attorney Ken Feinberg... But it's not the question you might think.
Posted Sep 9, 2021
32
4/5
Candyman (2021)
Review: The new Candyman reminds us why the character still haunts us...
Posted Aug 27, 2021
33
4/5
Simu Liu is Shang-Chi, master of kung-fu, and Marvel has its first Asian leading man. About damn time.
Posted Aug 24, 2021
34
2/5
Free Guy (2021)
[A] big, empty effects comedy.
Posted Aug 20, 2021
35
3/5
The Green Knight (2021)
The Green Knight is lavishly realized but strangely hollow.
Posted Jul 30, 2021
36
3/5
Jungle Cruise (2021)
37
3/5
Stillwater (2021)
38
5/5
Pig (2021)
Cage commits fully to the role of an Oregon recluse out to retrieve his stolen truffle pig...don't read anything further, don't watch the trailers. Just go see Pig.
Posted Jul 23, 2021
39
2/5
Old (2021)
I can't see it working with audiences who've white-knuckled their way through what's come before.
Posted Jul 23, 2021
40
3/5
Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021)
41
3/5
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Writer/director John Krasinski's sequel to his 2018 horror hit delivers more scares, near-misses and last-minute rescues. It's fine.
Posted Jul 16, 2021
42
4/5
Black Widow (2021)
Finally the hero of her own story, Scarlett Johansson knits together a decade of Natasha Romanoff's inconsistent characterization in a satisfying action thriller.
Posted Jul 9, 2021
43
2/5
The Forever Purge (2021)
44
4/5
The Tomorrow War (2021)
[The movie] somehow make us uncertain about how everything's going to work out. It takes real skill to pull that off these days, but The Tomorrow War does it. You'll see.
Posted Jul 2, 2021
45
3/5
F9 (2021)
Director Justin Lin makes a welcome return to the franchise he saved with Tokyo Drift... and he's brought some really big magnets.
Posted Jun 28, 2021
46
4/5
One section recounting a trip to Ischia in which the two were vacationing with their long-term lovers calls out to be dramatized. If only the two were alive to do it justice.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
47
2/5
Luca (2021)
Luca is a delicate animated fantasy that seems afraid of its own metaphors.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
48
1/5
I'm sure their bank accounts, and not the devil, made them do it.
Posted Jun 4, 2021
49
4/5
50
3/5
Undine (2020)