812filmreviews
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2/4
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
2
3/4
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Godzilla vs Kong is a marked improvement over King of the Monsters with regards to graphics, choreography, and scale.
Posted Mar 29, 2021
3
Sylvie's Love (2020)
Sylvie's Love isn't a knock-off of If Beale Could Talk. The romance charts its own distinct path.
Posted Dec 23, 2020
4
Monro's Kubrick by Kubrick isn't more than a loose highlight reel of the director's career buttressed by a fairly flat interview.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
5
Notturno (2021)
In Rosi's pursuit to win hearts and eyes, with Notturno, the heart beats inauthentically.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
6
Finding Yingying (2020)
Shi's Finding Yingying should come with complimentary napkins. It's a sad story, yet an even more fitting tribute.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
7
4/4
Nomadland (2021)
McDormand is still finding the little-told stories that lead to impactful cinema.
Posted Sep 12, 2020
8
3.5/4
One Night in Miami (2020)
More than a sentimental "what if," King's One Night in Miami... is a blistering feature debut replete with visceral performances from its incredible cast.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
9
3/4
Mulan (2020)
Caro's Mulan carries the same emotional weight of the prior with a greater dramatic punch.
Posted Sep 3, 2020
10
4/4
His least accessible film in some ways, but his most universally affecting in others, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is Kaufman's most advanced directorial work to date.
Posted Aug 27, 2020
11
3/4
Tesla (2020)
12
1/4
Random Acts of Violence (2020)
Random Acts of Violence explores artistic exploitation, inspiration, and consequence in a confused slasher bereft of a point.
Posted Aug 21, 2020
13
3/4
Sputnik (2020)
Egor Abramenko's Russian extraterrestrial creature feature Sputnik... is a gory science-fiction fright.
Posted Aug 13, 2020
14
3.5/4
Boys State (2020)
Boys State offers a ruminative peek into America's future.
Posted Aug 12, 2020
15
3.5/4
León's impressive debut is a sorrowful elegy, a funeral without the body, and a beautifully wrought lament to the voiceless.
Posted Aug 8, 2020
16
4/4
She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
She Dies Tomorrow will remain a brilliant portrait of existential dread, long after the Covid has departed, long after we have gone.
Posted Aug 7, 2020
17
2.5/4
An American Pickle (2020)
Irreverent and strange, what An American Pickle lacks in depth, it finds in Rogen.
Posted Aug 6, 2020
18
3/4
Summerland (2020)
Swale's Summerland, through its uptempo editing and endearing characters, is a throwback to homespun historical narratives, and a quaint slice of heaven.
Posted Aug 1, 2020
19
3/4
The Beach House (2020)
[The Beach House] mixes proverbial Lovecraftian notions of fate in a terrifying yet simply constructed creature feature that's begging to be picked apart and analyzed.
Posted Jul 9, 2020
20
3/4
The Old Guard (2020)
Prince-Bythewood always finds the character drama lurking beneath the dizzying action scenes.
Posted Jul 8, 2020
21
2/4
7500 (2020)
At its best, 7500 is Captain Phillips light. The problem is that it's rarely at its best.
Posted Jun 18, 2020
22
2/4
The King of Staten Island (2020)
It's a tonally meandering star vehicle that ever-so-slowly tries to find meaning beyond Davidson's sardonic sense of humor.
Posted Jun 8, 2020
23
4/4
The Vast of Night (2020)
The Vast of Night [is imbued] with terrifying vibes replete with a restless hunger to experience the fantastical.
Posted May 29, 2020
24
1.5/4
The High Note (2020)
The High Note [is] tragically off-key.
Posted May 27, 2020
25
3/4
The Booksellers (2020)
An engrossing documentary that lovingly demonstrates the importance of books within our culture and our evolving relationship to them.
Posted May 12, 2020
26
2.5/4
Capone (2020)
Part B-movie; part feral oddity... [Capone is] a bat-shit biopic bedecked by body horror.
Posted May 11, 2020
27
3/4
Working Man (2020)
Working Man is a confident expression of moving on, opening up, and learning to live again.
Posted May 4, 2020
28
Through the Night (2020)
A thoughtful directorial debut for Limbal; Through the Night is sweet and delightful, and remarkably personal and compelling.
Posted Apr 26, 2020
29
The State of Texas vs. Melissa, is a heart wrenching and urgent example of justice rendered incorrectly.
Posted Apr 26, 2020
30
P.S. Burn This Letter Please (2021)
P.S. Burn This Letter Please [has] a wellspring of pleasure and intimacy while recounting the gay scene of New York and the broader United States.
Posted Apr 26, 2020
31
3/4
Butt Boy (2020)
In Cornack's Butt Boy, rarely has toilet humor seemed so astute.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
32
1.5/4
The Hunt (2020)
The Hunt talks a big game... but it ultimately comes home empty-handed.
Posted Mar 11, 2020
33
3.5/4
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is never anything less than a crucial and timely story of hardship and love, of choice-made real by a series of beautiful observations.
Posted Mar 3, 2020
34
3/4
The Invisible Man (2020)
The Invisible Man interlocks the real-world distress felt by many women, while giving face to the demons men would rather think only exist in handfuls today.
Posted Feb 26, 2020
35
3/4
Onward (2020)
Onward crafts a sweetly enchanted tale about the memories and legacies left behind and our adoration for the past in lieu of the uncertain future.
Posted Feb 21, 2020
36
3/4
Premature (2020)
Rashaad Ernesto Green's innocently composed Premature... deeply [inhales] love with each earnest breath.
Posted Feb 20, 2020
37
1.5/4
Downhill (2020)
Downhill never sticks the landing as a couple's comedy nor as a marriage in crisis.
Posted Feb 14, 2020
38
2.5/4
It's a collage of glitter-packed fun.
Posted Feb 6, 2020
39
3.5/4
Zola (2021)
40
3/4
Whirlybird (2021)
Whirlybird is a brutal and compelling portrait with regards to ambition and scope, and empathy.
Posted Feb 5, 2020
41
3/4
Happy Happy Joy Joy - The Ren & Stimpy Story is engrossing and gutsy, and tactfully executed, but could be more combative.
Posted Jan 26, 2020
42
2.5/4
The Go-Go's (2020)
The Go-Go's sometimes lacks a personal touch, and too often waltzes through as a by-the-numbers music documentary, but certainly serves as a monument to a seminal group.
Posted Jan 26, 2020
43
3.5/4
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection urgently intertwines magical realism in a parable of grief and resilience...
Posted Jan 25, 2020
44
2/4
Dolittle (2020)
DOLITTLE: I literally don't care enough to think up a good pun.
Posted Jan 15, 2020
45
3.5/4
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
With both characters parsing through the consequences of their cavalier actions.... comes Lawrence and Smith's best acting in years.
Posted Jan 15, 2020
46
2/4
Les Misérables (2020)
47
2/4
Underwater (2020)
48
2/4
Like a Boss (2020)
49
3/4
Cats (2019)
Cats succeeds on its own terms. Its own harebrained, roller coaster, what did we do last night that has me waking up in a temple in Kyoto wearing someone else's pants way.
Posted Dec 18, 2019
50
1.5/4