Splice Today
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/5
If Not Now, When? (2021)
An earnest if uneven drama about enduring female friendship.
Posted Jan 11, 2021
2
3/5
The Midnight Sky (2020)
Isn't quite great, but does offer some compelling ideas about space, humanity, and apocalypse
Posted Dec 31, 2020
3
4.5/5
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Features Chadwick Boseman's final performance, and one of his best. And it would be a great turn even if Boseman hadn't been battling advanced cancer at the time of filming.
Posted Dec 31, 2020
4
4/5
Let Them All Talk (2020)
Experiments more with form than technology, a rare Hollywood movie shot in international waters.
Posted Dec 18, 2020
5
1/5
Free Lunch Express (2020)
6
3.5/5
Another Round (Druk) (2020)
A winner that does a fantastic job conveying the joys-and ills-of an alcohol-dependent lifestyle.
Posted Dec 13, 2020
7
3/5
Happiest Season (2020)
Has an enjoyable cast with likable actors. But it's also really strange, and anachronistic and full of little plot details that don't add up.
Posted Dec 13, 2020
8
2/5
Fatman (2020)
The film can never commit to a tone, its attempts at social satire don't land, and it's never funny.
Posted Nov 29, 2020
9
2/5
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
A mediocre melodrama full of poverty porn, one that moves slowly and doesn't deliver anything memorable
Posted Nov 25, 2020
10
4/5
Leap of Faith (2019)
It's simple, but fantastic-just a master filmmaker going on at length about a classic film, nearly 50 years later.
Posted Nov 25, 2020
11
2/5
A jejune and empty-headed documentary that doesn't add much to the understanding of the events of 2020.
Posted Nov 16, 2020
12
3.5/5
Assholes: A Theory (2020)
A compelling documentary which asks what constitutes an asshole, how assholes succeed in society, and what can be done about it, if anything
Posted Nov 16, 2020
13
4.5/5
One Night in Miami (2020)
A fine adaptation of a play based on a true story: about the night Mohammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown hung out in 1964.
Posted Nov 13, 2020
14
3/5
537 Votes (2020)
With the exception of its overuse of late night comedy clips, it's an entertaining treatment of the 2000 Florida recount.
Posted Nov 13, 2020
15
4/5
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
A very funny film that impressively updates the Borat M.O. for the world of 2020.
Posted Oct 26, 2020
16
4/5
17
4.5/5
Totally Under Control (2020)
Masterfully lays out how the Trump administration completely screwed up their pandemic.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
18
1.5/5
Assassin 33 A.D. (2020)
While Assassin 33: A.D. doesn't work as cinema or storytelling, it's got all the unintentional laughs you could possibly want.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
19
3/5
Faith Based (2020)
A very funny comedy that lands some solid punches.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
20
1/5
The War with Grandpa (2020)
Another entry in the "Robert De Niro feuding with his grandson" extended universe.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
21
5/5
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
After a mediocre directorial debut, Aaron Sorkin has returned with a stellar historical film that doesn't overstate itself.
Posted Oct 6, 2020
22
2/5
Antebellum (2020)
The film's audacity, to some degree, is admirable, even though it comes up empty.
Posted Sep 25, 2020
23
2/5
Kajillionaire (2020)
A film that's just as weird as Me and You, but not weird in as nearly interesting a way. It's a movie that's buried under layers of quirks
Posted Sep 25, 2020
24
1/5
Coastal Elites (2020)
A smug, self-defeating dud that has nothing new to say about the Trump era
Posted Sep 25, 2020
25
4/5
The Social Dilemma (2020)
Alarming, well-argued, and bleak, but most of what's said is common knowledge by this point.
Posted Sep 11, 2020
26
4.5/5
Charlie Kaufman's David Lynch movie, a vision of nightmarish Americana, told in a way meant to leave audiences guessing
Posted Sep 4, 2020
27
3/5
An impressively charming, if forgettable, adaptation of Charles Dickens' 170-year-old novel.
Posted Sep 4, 2020
28
4/5
Tenet (2020)
it's visually stunning, thanks to Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, and contains some of the year's best action filmmaking, but its plot is needlessly complex
Posted Sep 4, 2020
29
4/5
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
A third Bill & Ted movie decades down the line might sound depressing, but Bill & Ted Face the Music is the exception that proves the rule.
Posted Aug 28, 2020
30
2.5/5
31
3/5
Slay the Dragon (2020)
A dry, earnest liberal documentary about the evils of gerrymandering
Posted Aug 21, 2020
32
2/5
Vice Versa: Bernie Blackout (2020)
Takes a conspiratorial and not particularly convincing look at Bernie Sanders' second presidential run and its media coverage (Living Life Fearless)
Posted Aug 21, 2020
33
3/5
A compelling look at female CNN reporters on the campaign trail- back when there was a campaign trail.
Posted Aug 21, 2020
34
4/5
We Are the Radical Monarchs (2019)
35
3/5
Stockton on My Mind (2020)
An effective portrayal of Tubbs, even if it feels at times like a campaign commercial
Posted Aug 21, 2020
36
2/5
The Swamp (2020)
Comes at politics from a rather odd angle, trying to make earnest points about politics while following around the ridiculous Matt Gaetz.
Posted Aug 21, 2020
37
3/5
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)
Has its moments, but I would've rather watched The Burnt Orange Heresy set in 1970s Florida, not Italy
Posted Aug 21, 2020
38
4/5
Spree (2020)
Eugene Kotlyarenko has made the definitive movie satire about Internet fame and infamy
Posted Aug 14, 2020
39
3.5/5
An American Pickle (2020)
Has such a dynamite premise, and so many good ideas, that it's a shame it goes off the rails at around its midpoint.
Posted Aug 7, 2020
40
1/5
The Big Ugly (2020)
The Big Ugly doesn't "move," it just sits there on the screen
Posted Aug 7, 2020
41
4/5
Blessed Child (2019)
An intriguing documentary about an underexplored subject: The Unification Church, also known as the Moonies
Posted Jul 24, 2020
42
4/5
Yes, God, Yes (2020)
Very funny and charming and showcases a cinematic voice with great potential.
Posted Jul 24, 2020
43
3/5
The Rental (2020)
Shows potential, even as it slowly drifts from a mumblecore-style character drama, into a full-on slasher film.
Posted Jul 24, 2020
44
4.5/5
Palm Springs (2020)
One of the most exhilarating films of the year, the rare movie with massive buzz out of Sundance that lives up to the hype
Posted Jul 24, 2020
45
4.5/5
First Cow (2020)
The slowest heist movie of all time. That's a compliment.
Posted Jul 24, 2020
46
4.5/5
Hamilton (2020)
Most of what's great about Hamilton on stage successfully makes the transition to television.
Posted Jul 13, 2020
47
3/5
Money Plane (2020)
It isn't good, exactly and it's notably cheap-looking. But I still had a smile on my face for large parts of it.
Posted Jul 13, 2020
48
3.5/5
There are fun stories, likely to be enjoyed by anyone who's interested in the music or the politics of the late 1970s,
Posted Jun 26, 2020
49
3/5
While a worthwhile examination of Cohn's life, Bully. Coward. Victim is less compelling than the earlier Cohn doc,
Posted Jun 26, 2020
50
3.5/5
Women in Blue (2020)