The Baffler
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A.S. Hamrah, Lauren Carroll Harris
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Promising Young Woman (2020)
A major feminist statement in the form of a pop movie.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
2
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
3
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
4
5
Mank (2020)
6
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
7
One Night in Miami (2020)
8
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
9
Minari (2020)
10
Nomadland (2021)
...a valentine to Amazon's CamperForce and the warehouses in which the 'Force works....
Posted Apr 30, 2021
11
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy is whiny and teary...
Posted Apr 30, 2021
12
The White Tiger (2020)
13
Sound of Metal (2020)
14
The Father (2021)
15
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Agitprop that doesn't convince, comedy that isn't very funny.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
16
Another Round (Druk) (2020)
17
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
18
Spree (2020)
Spree is a giddy adventure in screen maximalism, random violence, and cultural bitterness.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
19
...this movie presents Helmut Newton as a well-adjusted, happily married artist who found his calling early...
Posted Jan 8, 2021
20
...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
21
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
22
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
23
24
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President showcases Carter's deft touch with soft power, in the form of the American music
Posted Jan 8, 2021
25
Desert One (2020)
26
Coup 53 (2020)
It's an exhaustive, riveting exegesis...
Posted Jan 8, 2021
27
Boys State (2020)
Jesse Moss makes finely observed, patient documentaries about self-deluded American conmen and dreamers. Naturally this leads him into politics.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
28
A brightly colored miniature like Agnès Varda's Du côté de la côte is paradoxically best seen on a big screen in the dark.
Posted Jan 8, 2021
29
30
...original and accomplished.
Posted Sep 21, 2020
31
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
32
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
33
La Captive (2003)
34
World War Z (2013)
...the most expensive zombie movie ever made...an odious movie...
Posted Sep 17, 2020
35
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
36
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
37
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
38
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
39
The Two Popes (2019)
...the pair's dynamic lacks spark...
Posted Sep 16, 2020
40
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Jojo Rabbit combines Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson in the worst, cop-out ways.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
41
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
42
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
43
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
44
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
45
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
46
Little Women (2019)
47
Marriage Story (2019)
The next morning I had a post-Marriage Story hangover and I hated myself for liking it.
Posted Sep 16, 2020
48
49
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
50