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C+
Emily the Criminal (2022)

Clint Worthington

There's a lot to sink your teeth into with Emily the Criminal, between its strong Plaza turn and a pitch-black moral core that refreshingly commits to the bit. But outside of those devilish comforts, a lot of Ford's debut is frustratingly thin.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
2
C
Breaking (2022)

Clint Worthington

There's little to latch on here apart from its purpose as an actor's showcase for Boyega, Beharie, and Williams, and its bittersweet status as a sendoff for the latter's illustrious career.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
3
B
Dual (2022)

Clint Worthington

Dual doesn't quite reach the satirical heights of Art of Self-Defense, but it's still a killer vehicle for his uniquely confident voice.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
4
A-
You Won't Be Alone (2022)

Clint Worthington

It's one of the most intriguing genre movies of the year so far, and one that it'll likely take multiple viewings to traverse its vast philosophical underpinnings.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
5
B
2nd Chance (2022)

Clint Worthington

This straight-shooting approach mostly works, even if it doesn't pin Davis down as concretely as some would like.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
6
B-
Sirens (2022)

Clint Worthington

For as choppy as Sirens can be in its too-short 78-minute runtime, it's easy to chalk that up to the difficulties of filming during COVID. But what we do get is certainly crowd-pleasing, a riotous doc.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
7
B-
Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022)

Clint Worthington

If you're looking to spend two hours remembering The Way Things Were before music and New York took such dramatic turns in the mid-2000s, there's plenty to like about this doc.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
8
Scream (2022)

Clint Worthington

Lampshading your film's shortcomings can only take you so far; at some point, you've got to deliver, andScream just doesn't, forgive me,elevate its horror fundamentals quite enough to do so.
Posted Jan 14, 2022
9
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022)

Liz Shannon Miller

What Return to Hogwarts captures best, in the end, is how completely life-changing an experience it was to make these films, even for the less-recognizable cast members who also grew up on set.
Posted Jan 4, 2022
10
B+
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Liz Shannon Miller

Throughout all of it, the weird and complex history of Spider-Man as a cinematic icon isn't a hindrance to the story; instead, it's an enhancement, using the quirks of the character's legacy as a source of illumination into why he has endured so long.
Posted Dec 29, 2021
11
C-
Don't Look Up (2021)

Clint Worthington

Unfortunately, [Adam McKay]'s bought too deeply into his hype as a vivid truth-teller of society's ills, and that smugness has infected too much of his films' fabric.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
12
B
Nightmare Alley (2021)

Clint Worthington

For all its flaws, there's still something ultimately entrancing about Nightmare Alley -- the feeling of watching an artist grappling with his own self-groomed status as a king of the supernatural.
Posted Dec 3, 2021
13
B
House of Gucci (2021)

Clint Worthington

By all means, watch it for Gaga doing The Most, or Leto pulling out the most eye-poppingly bad performance of the year with every falsetto lilt of his voice.
Posted Nov 23, 2021
14
B-
Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago (2021)

Clint Worthington

It's certainly the most committed case study of cinematic turd-polishing I've ever seen, and I'm genuinely thrilled that Stallone got this chance to ruminate on the ways time and age have refined his artistic sensibilities.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
15
A+
Licorice Pizza (2021)

Clint Worthington

It's undoubtedly one of the best films of the year, and of Anderson's career.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
16
C-
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

Clint Worthington

By turning the burglars into desperate saints operating under false assumptions, the film becomes a cavalcade of mean-spirited violence against people who really don't deserve it.
Posted Nov 11, 2021
17
B+
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Jesse Hassenger

Coen's version of Macbeth is a canny, fascinating hybrid of a theatrical sensibility and a cinematic translation, shot in ghostly monochrome.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
18
A-
Red Rocket (2021)

Jesse Hassenger

Baker has moved from child characters to a man who's intensely childlike, in both his selfishness and his deluded optimism. If anything, that makes the new film especially rewarding; the filmmaker has pulled off another risky challenge.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
19
B
The Velvet Underground (2021)

Jesse Hassenger

No fan of Haynes or the VU should skip this - and if you're not a fan of at least one of the two, what gives?
Posted Oct 29, 2021
20
B+
The Power of the Dog (2021)

Jesse Hassenger

Campion's take on the Western is an elegant, sometimes unnerving accomplishment.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
21
B+
C'mon C'mon (2021)

Jesse Hassenger

Even if C'mon C'mon occasionally feels like navel-gazing, it's too open-hearted and generous of spirit to miss.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
22
C+
Dune (2021)

Jesse Hassenger

It's hard to discourage any sci-fi fans from seeing Dune, preferably in a well-appointed movie theater. It's also hard to imagine any non-fans truly loving it.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
23
A-
The French Dispatch (2021)

Jesse Hassenger

Don't let anyone tell you The French Dispatch is "minor" Wes Anderson; movies this funny and strange are not minor.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
24
A
The Last Duel (2021)

Clint Worthington

Lurking underneath the grim wit and modernist camp of The Last Duel is a surprisingly effective treatise on the ways rape culture has persisted throughout millennia.
Posted Oct 8, 2021
25
D
Halloween Kills (2021)

Clint Worthington

You can do throwback nostalgia-bait horror that doesn't require every character to have the situational awareness of a three-hole punch, I promise you.
Posted Oct 5, 2021
26
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Lauren Coates

The script is certainly frustrating and the narrative not all that thrilling, but Venom has the good sense to deliver more of what audiences loved about the first film: the Eddie/Venom dynamic and hijinks.
Posted Oct 5, 2021
27
B
Lamb (2021)

Clint Worthington

Lamb takes on the ominous, warning air of an old fable.
Posted Oct 4, 2021
28
B-
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Clint Worthington

Much like Evil Dead II, Venom 2 takes what works about its shaggy predecessor, turns it up to 11 and gives it almost exclusive focus, and exponentially increases the silliness. And the results are deeply, charmingly dumb.
Posted Sep 30, 2021
29
B-
No Time To Die (2021)

Clint Worthington

Fukunaga's direction is crisp and assured, if occasionally languid, and the script creaks under the weight of its myriad responsibilities to both its star and franchise. But it hits where it counts.
Posted Sep 28, 2021
30
B
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

Clint Worthington

For superfans of the show, it's a great addition to the lore and a potent companion piece to the series' many thematic preoccupations.
Posted Sep 21, 2021
31
B-
Oasis Knebworth 1996 (2021)

Clint Worthington

With its uncensored showcases of Oasis at the height of their powers, punctuated by the fawning recollections of their fans, Scott's doc is truly a time capsule of nostalgic Millennial memories from the time we thought was "the end of history."
Posted Sep 17, 2021
32
B+
Cry Macho (2021)

Clint Worthington

Peel away the necessities of the plot, and the conveniences that plop Mike and Rafo in that sleepy Mexican town with a too-friendly abuela and her granddaughters, and this might be one of his most personal, assured films to date.
Posted Sep 15, 2021
33
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

Clint Worthington

Peel off the layers of mascara, and Eyes of Tammy Faye offers a droll, albeit thin, critique of America's infatuation with excess, and the spiritual mechanisms we use to justify it.
Posted Sep 14, 2021
34
C
Kate (2021)

Clint Worthington

In an age where action films look to be reinventing themselves, Netflix's Kate is mostly content to play the hits.
Posted Sep 3, 2021
35
B+
Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021)

Clint Worthington

Perhaps the smartest move Bitchin' makes is to just lay all of James' cards out on the table and let the audience figure it out for themselves.
Posted Sep 2, 2021
36
C
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed (2021)

Clint Worthington

While the conflicts are very real, the litigious nature of the Kowalskis implicitly leaves Rofé with few subjects to interview. As a result, the doc feels incomplete, especially when its two selves wrestle for control of the narrative.
Posted Aug 23, 2021
37
C+
Reminiscence (2021)

Clint Worthington

When Joy lets us peek in these tiny, intriguing corners of her speculative world, Reminiscence comes alive the most. Otherwise, the rest of it fades like a memory you'd just as soon forget.
Posted Aug 18, 2021
38
B+
Annette (2021)

Clint Worthington

In the haphazardly-assembled bricks of its construction, you can find plenty to enjoy -- from Driver's towering lead performance to its metafictional, Brechtian flourishes.
Posted Aug 6, 2021
39
B
Free Guy (2021)

Clint Worthington

There's something surprising about its approach to both blockbuster filmmaking and Ryan Reynolds star vehicles. It's at once a Deadpool riff and the absolute opposite, a violent video game movie that's about how fighting isn't actually the answer.
Posted Aug 5, 2021
40
B+
The Suicide Squad (2021)

Clint Worthington

The Suicide Squad is probably the closest we'll get to a big-budget Troma film released by a major studio, and it's high time we treasured it, warts and all.
Posted Jul 28, 2021
41
A
The Green Knight (2021)

Clint Worthington

The film is a slow, mournful rumination on our desires to live forever through story, song, and deed -- a fitting adaptation from the director of A Ghost Story, another movie deeply interested in facing death head-on.
Posted Jul 26, 2021
42
C
Old (2021)

Clint Worthington

Taken as a straightforward thriller, it's straight up bad. But if you vibe with the erstwhile camp appeal of its deeply stock cast of characters, you can get through the rest of Old to enjoy the eerie body-horror implications of its premise.
Posted Jul 23, 2021
43
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

Clint Worthington

In flying (or rather, believing you can fly) too close to the sun with its overstuffed sequel, Warner Bros. managed to do the impossible: make the first Space Jam feel downright simple, quaint, and comparatively appealing.
Posted Jul 15, 2021
44
A+
Pig (2021)

Clint Worthington

Pig, along with later career stunners like Mandy and Color Out of Space, feel like a Cage who's slummed it in sophomoric action dreck for decades reawakening to his true purpose.
Posted Jul 12, 2021
45
B-
Black Widow (2021)

Clint Worthington

It's absolutely mid-tier Marvel, alternatively harmed and aided by its late position in the slate. But as a reintroduction to the cinematic universe after a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's definitely worth a look.
Posted Jun 30, 2021
46
A-
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)

Clint Worthington

Watching Roadrunner feels like engaging in a kind of collective mourning, a desperate bid to understand a man who meant so much to so many, even if we never met him.
Posted Jun 30, 2021
47
D+
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)

Clint Worthington

Sure, it commits wholeheartedly to its bone-dead stupidity more than the first film. But it leaves a final product so scattered and uninspired that, less than 24 hours after seeing it, the vast majority of it escapes my memory.
Posted Jun 30, 2021
48
C
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Clint Worthington

The Warrens have too much plot armor to make them feel truly in peril, and it's that unstoppability that makes the film lose more than a little bit of focus.
Posted Jun 30, 2021
49
B
In the Heights (2021)

Clint Worthington

Despite its frustrating flaws, In the Heights ultimately succeeds in its aim to craft a big, rousing, blockbuster musical meant to escort us handsomely into summer.
Posted Jun 22, 2021
50
Luca (2021)

Clint Worthington

In the nuts and bolts of its storytelling, and its low-stakes charm, Luca may well be the best kid-focused Pixar tale since Coco.
Posted Jun 22, 2021