The Baffler
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A.S. Hamrah, Lauren Carroll Harris
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Lamb (2021)
Lamb ends in very unexpected way, really out there, but it's too much too late.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
2
Don't Look Up (2021)
Here's a quick-and-easy lesson for the next time: if the end credits sequence is sixteen minutes long, the movie is part of the problem, not the solution.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
3
Days (Rizi) (2021)
Tsai Ming-liang's films are test cases of cinema. They require projection on large screens in dark auditoriums, even demand it, but quietly.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
4
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
5
Social Hygiene (2021)
Filled with birdsong on the soundtrack, stitched together with fast tracking shots and whip pans, it's beautiful, too.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
6
Spencer (2021)
In this world of high-toned entertainment, you can flee from the Windsors like Diana Spencer did, and you should.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
7
The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)
An ambitious concept for anyone's first film. But it gets close enough in this second year of blighted pandemic cinema.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
8
Project Space 13 (2021)
Michael M. Bilandic's new gem, an airtight chamber comedy ripped from Covid-era headlines during the Soho looting scare of summer 2020, takes place in a locked-down art gallery.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
9
The Card Counter (2021)
The Card Counter is a subtle exorcism of national crimes eighteen years old, an unusual, serious genre film unafraid to hold its protagonist to account.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
10
Whirlybird (2021)
Close to a hundred million people watched that live. Whirlybird is an invaluable document on how it happened.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
11
France (2021)
12
The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
It so easily could have been cut. Unfortunately, it encapsulates the solipsism of the whole enterprise...
Posted Jan 18, 2022
13
The Souvenir (2019)
Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir was maybe the best film of 2019.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
14
Bergman Island (2021)
15
The film's shock ending [is] the best of the year.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
16
Red Rocket (2021)
Rex and Son give two of the best performances of the year, finding a cruel joy in the series of bad decisions they make or succumb to.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
17
Zola (2021)
18
El Planeta (2021)
Amalia Ulman has an almost expressionless quality that is fully reflected in the deadpan brilliance of her debut feature, El Planeta.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
19
The French Dispatch (2021)
20
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
21
Drive My Car (2021)
To me there was something unsatisfying about it...It was all warm feeling and cold technique. All I could think was: end it.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
22
23
Annette (2021)
24
Old (2021)
Shyamalan's movie was too timely, an obvious and exact mirror of pandemic life over the previous year and a half...
Posted Jan 18, 2022
25
Promising Young Woman (2020)
A major feminist statement in the form of a pop movie.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
26
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is the worst film of the twenty-first century so far.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
27
Pieces of a Woman (2020)
For me, the highlight of this overbearing mess was an awkward scene in which LaBeouf and Safdie had to improvise a lengthy conversation about the White Stripes.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
28
29
Mank (2020)
30
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Boseman's last performance is a marvel of enthusiasm and detailed invention, with Levee's final outburst the polar opposite of this actor's generosity.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
31
One Night in Miami (2020)
32
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
33
Minari (2020)
34
Nomadland (2021)
...a valentine to Amazon's CamperForce and the warehouses in which the 'Force works....
Posted Apr 30, 2021
35
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy is whiny and teary...
Posted Apr 30, 2021
36
The White Tiger (2020)
37
Sound of Metal (2020)
38
The Father (2021)
39
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Agitprop that doesn't convince, comedy that isn't very funny.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
40
Another Round (Druk) (2020)
41
Santiago, Italia (2018)
Guzmán makes an appearance before Moretti's camera, but most of the screen time is dedicated to the refugees who escaped to Italy-the film is somehow the opposite of Desert One...
Posted Jan 15, 2021
42
Spree (2020)
Spree is a giddy adventure in screen maximalism, random violence, and cultural bitterness.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
43
...this movie presents Helmut Newton as a well-adjusted, happily married artist who found his calling early...
Posted Jan 8, 2021
44
...it had the unfortunate effect of leaving me wanting less Borowczyk, even though the film doesn't use enough clips from his work.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
45
Ren & Stimpy's gestalt-a kind of tender boldness of form, something "churning like lava inside you," as Kricfalusi puts it-was endearing and magnetic.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
46
Feels Good Man (2020)
This comprehensive, intelligent film goes to unexpected places and, because of its subject, uses comics and animation in an organic, creative way.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
47
48
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President showcases Carter's deft touch with soft power, in the form of the American music
Posted Jan 8, 2021
49
Desert One (2020)
50
Coup 53 (2020)
It's an exhaustive, riveting exegesis...
Posted Jan 8, 2021