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Title/Year
Author
1
Tenet (2020)

Kelley Dong

The scale of its spectacle suggests innovation; but Nolan's combination of the reverse motion with the cross cut, which he's dressed with trivial exposition, has all been done before.
Posted Sep 28, 2020
2
Come and See (Idi i smotri) (1985)

Jeremy Carr

"...Come and See is a grueling masterwork..."
Posted Mar 10, 2020
3
Sorry We Missed You (2020)

Leonardo Goi

"In its plea for compassion and outrage, Sorry We Missed You is anything but apologetic: it's fierce, relentless, and devastating..."
Posted Mar 10, 2020
4
Xianggang zhizao (Made in Hong Kong) (1997)

Sean Gilman

Its ultra-cheap production and effortless blending of genre film tropes with art house sensibilities mark[s] it as a successor to the classics of the Hong Kong New Wave...
Posted Mar 10, 2020
5
Princess Cyd (2017)

Elissa Suh

The undervalued director confers a frank grace, letting each of these ideas collide and tangle, and rest among themselves-an exemplary feat of cinema, and one that ought to extend to the world.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
6
The Strange Ones (2018)

Elissa Suh

...a metaphysical horror that never quite comes to a head.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
7
I Am Another You (2017)

Elissa Suh

Over-narrating and explicating his charisma in lieu of showing it, Wang's undertaking of roughing it in Florida proves unpalatable, difficult, and a bit problematic-though the film's third act will soon reveal why.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
8
Most Beautiful Island (2017)

Elissa Suh

Asensio sequesters us to loitering long-takes in this slowburn thriller that becomes a riveting fable of immigrant struggles.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
9
Common Carrier (2017)

Elissa Suh

James N. Kienitz Wilkins' kaleidoscopic documentary Common Carrier is comprised entirely of superimpositions that roughly sketch the struggle of a handful of modern artists in this technology-riddled world.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
10
Gemini (2018)

Elissa Suh

Gemini's utilization of professional (and in this case, underrated) actresses works to his advantage; the talented pair achieve an affinity sweet and enigmatic, cresting with the arch of an eyebrow or a longing gaze.
Posted Feb 27, 2020
11
Thirst Street (2017)

Elissa Suh

The film bestows us the opportunity for dialogue, as the best of cinema and many titles often do.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
12
Flames (2017)

Elissa Suh

With high potential to ruffle with its solipsism, Flames turns out to be cathartic and timely piece of performance art that might be the most representative of our society.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
13
Buster's Mal Heart (2017)

Elissa Suh

Sarah Adina Smith teasingly dips to sci-fi, only to haphazardly scatter it all for the sake of philosophy. In lieu of a rule-bound universe, we get a smattering of quantum mechanics, apocalypse myths and a shaking fist at God and the Bible.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
14
A Suitable Girl (2017)

Elissa Suh

[It] doesn't upbraid or rail against the practice of arranged marriage that is its central subject, but rather employs it as the context...it questions not, instead offering a clear-eyed and empathetic look into the process.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
15
Abundant Acreage Available (2017)

Elissa Suh

MacLachlan has a way of reducing his characters and, by his extension, viewers to children, as a way to keenly elicit our empathies, but at the risk of having his film feel too rudimentary.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
16
Flower (2018)

Elissa Suh

...it is a shame that Max Winkler's debut, with its muddy gender politics, isn't a better film.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
17
The Lovers (2017)

Elissa Suh

It serves as tender comedic fodder that proves the greater biting point the film makes about infidelity and monogamy. The film eviscerates the Hollywood sheen of middle-aged marrieds...
Posted Feb 26, 2020
18
The Circle (2017)

Elissa Suh

James Ponsoldt's film is an egregious adaptation neutered of all the chilling entertainment of the Dave Eggers novel on which the film is based.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
19
Shadowman (2017)

Elissa Suh

A more traditional documentary, no less riveting...
Posted Feb 26, 2020
20
City of Ghosts (2017)

Elissa Suh

City of Ghosts works urgently...the grainy and grisly images contrast deeply with the Islamic State's own slick filmic efforts that ironically and blatantly mimic the language of Hollywood movies with unsettling efficiency.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
21
For Ahkeem (2017)

Elissa Suh

For Ahkeem poignantly unfolds with all the accouterments of a narrative film.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
22
Boundaries (2018)

Elissa Suh

Writer-director Chloé Robichaud films in purposefully icy grays, but the film falls victim to its own drabness. Her characters are barely more than archetypes.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
23
Pendular (2018)

Elissa Suh

Visual motifs and avant-garde fixtures pretend to obscure a digestible storyline concerning two artists in relation to their craft, success, and each other.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
24
Sexy Durga (2017)

Elissa Suh

Sasidharan, though a skilled craftsman, exploits these unknown variables for the sake of mood and tension.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
25
Menashe (2017)

Elissa Suh

Spoken entirely in Yiddish, Menashe is a sort of Kramer vs. Kramer of the Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Played by Menashe Lustig, the titular character proves immediately lovable, if not a mensch.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
26
4 Days in France (Jours de France) (2017)

Elissa Suh

Reybaud's expertly ordered world is predicated on a genteel kindness, of strangers and Pierre alike, and starts to crack ever so slightly the further north he travels and the colder it gets.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
27
The Challenge (2017)

Elissa Suh

A mystifying series of coy and curious impressions, The Challenge is also undeniably playful in its observation of collective and unseen preening.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
28
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Wùlu (2017)

Elissa Suh

Ladji exercises restraint and carries something like wisdom, setting him apart from most gangsters...
Posted Feb 26, 2020
29
Autumn, Autumn (2016)

Elissa Suh

At least for this viewer, there's something darkly lonesome about Autumn, Autumn
Posted Feb 26, 2020
30
Happy Times Will Come Soon (I tempi felici verranno presto) (2016)

Elissa Suh

Comodin's film burns itself to your brain, just as a pair of sapphire-glazed eyes blaze deeply against the viridian dark.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
31
Tikkun (2016)

Elissa Suh

Tikkun is the more spiritual kind. The film's austere and provocative look contrasts with the dramatic excitement absent from the film's story-Tikkun's conflict concerns the soul-and compensates at times for its ponderous pacing.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
32
Donald Cried (2017)

Elissa Suh

Avedisian maintains an even hand in depicting this oddball friendship and skirts sentimentalism in what turns out to be an amusing film.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
33
The Fits (2016)

Elissa Suh

The Fits exhibits a rhythm all its own as unique and spirited as the girls' dancing.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
34
Kill Me Please (Mate-me por favor) (2017)

Elissa Suh

Mate-me por favor becomes muddled as Rocha da Silveira's bold direction takes on too many elements, including a not-so-fully formed allusion to an underbelly caused by rapid modernization in the wealthy neighborhood...
Posted Feb 26, 2020
35
Peter and the Farm (2016)

Elissa Suh

Garrulous and cranky, roughened and wizened, farmer Peter Dunning wears a snowy Santa Claus beard and bears not only physical resemblance to Robin Williams, but also exhibits the actor-comedian's self-effacing humor...
Posted Feb 26, 2020
36
Behemoth (Bei xi mo shou) (2017)

Elissa Suh

The obvious beauty of these images is bittersweet; we are gazing after all at what is now scorched earth, tilled by machinery and toiled over by humans, impoverished and exploited...
Posted Feb 26, 2020
37
Private Life (2018)

Elissa Suh

With the masterful Private Life, Tamara Jenkins excavates without puncture, but small cuts can cause the most acute pain.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
38
Ham on Rye (2020)

Linda Kersnerová

To be completely direct, Ham on Rye is in fact wildly enjoyable. A little over two weeks' worth of time and a limited budget are rarely the elements for a movie as well put-together as this film.
Posted Jan 25, 2020
39
Earth (Erde) (2019)

Daniel Kasman

No mere glorification of nature's ambiance, it is instead a distressing dispatch of violent upheaval, capturing the magnitude of the displacement of earth on a massive scale...
Posted Jan 23, 2020
40
I Wish I Knew (Hai shang chuan qi) (2020)

Sean Gilman

Weaving a beautiful, dreamlike path through history, I Wish I Knew is less documentary as essay film than documentary as prose poem, its meandering reinforced by Lim Giong's delicate, melancholy score and Zhao Tao's presence...
Posted Jan 23, 2020
41
3.5/5
Black Christmas (2019)

Willow Maclay

The #MeToo movement was a primal scream that rose up from the throats of women. Black Christmas is an echo of that initial feeling.
Posted Jan 3, 2020
42
Atlantics (2019)

Kelli Weston

[Diop] blends social realism with fantasy and horror into a boldly atmospheric production, a lyrical elegy equal parts mythic and phantasmagoric.
Posted Dec 19, 2019
43
The Irishman (2019)

Forrest Cardamenis

It...forces us to reconsider a body of work that is far more expansive than it is often given credit for by changing the template of his previous mob films and foregrounding questions of aging both in its text and its production.
Posted Dec 11, 2019
44
5/5
H2: Halloween II (2009)

Willow Maclay

This is a slasher film that aches. There is no enjoyment in the bloodshed here. Only sorrow and Zombie's attention to the psychological effects of violence prove masterful.
Posted Nov 4, 2019
45
The Lighthouse (2019)

Leonardo Goi

It is a relentless, intoxicating fight of two men fumbling after the light and receding deeper into darkness.
Posted Nov 1, 2019
46
Starless Dreams (Royahaye dame sobh) (2017)

Tanner Tafelski

...Oskouei's finest work yet.
Posted Oct 30, 2019
47
Az pase borghe (The Other Side of Burka) (2011)

Tanner Tafelski

...a crushing look at oppressive patriarchal society in which Oskouei offers a portrait of women and the different ways they're restricted financially, physically, mentally, and ethically.
Posted Oct 30, 2019
48
Chained for Life (2019)

Caden Mark Gardner

Often funny, consistently bizarre, surprisingly sweet, and resolutely provocative, there is perhaps no other American film released this year that meditates this intensely on what it means to feel seen in film.
Posted Oct 21, 2019
49
Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) (2019)

Leonardo Goi

Pain and Glory, Almodóvar's superb new film, scintillates with the same empathy and auto-fictional flair of earlier works, but opens up a new chapter where the two can come together.
Posted Oct 8, 2019
50
Joker (2019)

Forrest Cardamenis

Joker is replete with the signifiers of great cinema, all dialed up so heavily that they could denote parody if the film were not so serious.
Posted Oct 8, 2019