The Baffler
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A.S. Hamrah, Lauren Carroll Harris
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
...original and accomplished.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
2
Bacurau (Nighthawk) (2020)
Secrecy pervades this Brazilian acid western...co-writer/directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles mix styles here...
Posted Sep 18, 2020
3
Lumumba (2001)
Lumumba is framed by long, menacing scenes, lit by fire, of its main character's 1961 arrest and disappearance.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
4
La Captive (2003)
5
World War Z (2013)
...the most expensive zombie movie ever made...an odious movie...
Posted Sep 17, 2020
6
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
It runs like crazy through American life, through American movies, and now TV, like a faucet left on.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
7
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The film totally sanitizes Romero's use of a shopping mall as a site of consumerist critique.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
8
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
This was an American horror movie, so it needed no English accents or familiar character actors. It was grim and unflinching...
Posted Sep 17, 2020
9
Audition (Ôdishon) (1999)
A prolific director known for his willingness to try anything as long as it's weird, violent, or evil, Takashi Miike outdid himself with Audition...
Posted Sep 17, 2020
10
The Two Popes (2019)
...the pair's dynamic lacks spark...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
11
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Jojo Rabbit combines Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson in the worst, cop-out ways.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
12
1917 (2020)
At this current level of Hollywood production, expressionistic British militarism is all the same to me and it's worn me out...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
13
Joker (2019)
Joker is a one-man show...the riot scenes near the end of Joker reflect something true in society, and they brought the film out of its shell.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
14
Judy (2019)
Zellweger finds the tragedy of Garland's life in odd moments-staring at a pretty slice of cake she is afraid to eat, turning the plate around.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
15
Bombshell (2019)
Alas, as a Hollywood movie about TV news, Bombshell is not Tout va bien. Roach has no insight into Roger Ailes as an auteur...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
16
Harriet (2019)
Importing an actor to portray her, no matter how talented Erivo is, strikes the wrong note, so to speak.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
17
Little Women (2019)
18
Marriage Story (2019)
The next morning I had a post-Marriage Story hangover and I hated myself for liking it.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
19
20
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Ford v Ferrari's meta-cinematic qualities remain buried, the men are not Hollywood bozos, and the whole enterprise can be enjoyed on a basic level...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
21
A shaggy dog story wrapped in a fairytale...Tarantino respects the Chekhovian rule that if you show a flamethrower earlier in the movie, you have to use it later.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
22
Richard Jewell (2019)
23
The Irishman (2019)
I saw The Irishman in a huge theater on a giant screen, and I did not want to get up, didn't want it to end, and could have watched another hour of it if there was one.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
24
Almodóvar's ability to be both ultra-contemporary in his settings and ultra-modern in describing the past are unique in the cinema.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
25
Knives Out (2019)
This whodunit is light entertainment at its finest, a surprising movie with an enjoyable sense of complication and a dream cast.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
26
Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
27
Zombieland (2009)
Eisenberg's millennial character undergoes a reality-TV-scripted makeover...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
28
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Wright's film acquiesced to the coupling-up plot rom-coms require, but not without first presenting the routine, pointless daily life of its protagonist...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
29
Land of the Dead (2005)
...it is clear that no American genre film from that period digests and exposes the Bush era more skillfully than Land of the Dead.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
30
Circumstantial Pleasures (2020)
In these short semi-abstractions, Klahr peers through a microscope at the dregs of our civilization as they mutate and infect its survivors today.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
31
Vitalina Varela (2020)
There is a reason there are not many films like this. Vitalina Varela is so uncompromising and so concentrated that it threatens to absorb the projector beam...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
32
The Traitor (2020)
Parts of The Traitor take place in the United States. It's always great to see European films with American-set scenes that weren't shot here.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
33
The Assistant (2020)
34
Cane River (2020)
35
Les Misérables (2020)
Inserted into all the grit and violence and naturalistic lower-depths acting, it's this kind of written, acted speech that often makes a neorealist film...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
36
Greed (2020)
Weaving themselves in and out of the plot, and on and off McCreadie's yacht, Isla Fisher and Shirley Henderson are underutilized considering their potential...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
37
American Factory (2019)
It's sad, bleak, and humiliating.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
38
Horse Girl (2020)
Everything produced by the Duplass Brothers is hollow and superficial and cutesy. Their examinations of the bourgeoisie lack depth and flatter their audience...
Posted Sep 15, 2020
39
The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
Rees should have pulled the plug on the whole thing...Instead the film drowns on its own.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
40
The Hunt (2020)
The Hunt, trying to be clever, ends up forgetting not to hide the main emotion of Hollywood: the embarrassment of trying to be all things to all people.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
41
It is possible to agree with everything in a film and still understand that the film is bad. So it is with Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
42
The Trip to Greece (2020)
43
Tommaso (2020)
Like the screen personas of Ferrara and Dafoe themselves, Tommaso draws you in with a kind of cool friendliness that verges on the distrustful or psychotic.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
44
The Platform (El Hoyo) (2020)
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia is so nihilistic he will undoubtedly make the leap to Hollywood, especially since his cynical banquet leaves room for religiosity as the last course.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
45
Uncorked (2020)
Uncorked is a tepid drama of black family life in Memphis...[a] mild film.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
46
The Wrong Missy (2020)
The Wrong Missy is a throwaway comedy with an emasculated David Spade in a bad haircut and dye job, less than one-one-hundredth as funny as he was doing monologues on Instagram...
Posted Sep 15, 2020
47
Blow the Man Down (2020)
Blow the Man Down is swift but not choppy, with Martindale silencing people merely by appearing in doorways
Posted Sep 15, 2020
48
49
Sorry We Missed You (2020)
Everyone does a seamless job here, especially the family and the belligerent delivery boss...
Posted Sep 15, 2020
50