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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Midnight in Paris (2019)
A week is too short a time frame. A longer view might have left a deeper impression.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
2
Great Air Robbery (1920)
The melodrama's use of airplanes for midnight mail deliveries, highway, or rather highair, robberies, and battles between the forces of law and lawlessness adds excitement.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
3
The Witches (2020)
There's more heart in the new version and more emotion, qualities which can go missing in those Zemeckis movies that get lost in his technical whiz-bangery.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
4
This is a highly personal take, not a historical or legal lecture. Yet Schreck succeeds in widening her autobiographical play into a paean for basic fairness...
Posted Oct 22, 2020
5
Bad Hair (2020)
Despite the potentially heavy (or heavy-handed) material, "Bad Hair" is self-consciously and pleasingly campy...
Posted Oct 22, 2020
6
Friendsgiving (2020)
The ensemble cast... carries the film at every turn. These delightful performances prevent the film's antics from being dizzying and overwrought.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
7
The Place of No Words (2020)
"The Place of No Words" clearly means so much to the tight circle of people who made it that it feels almost like an invasion of privacy to call it a depressing, charmless slog.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
8
Coming Home Again (2020)
"Coming Home Again" looks at the impending loss of a loved one through the prism of the immigrant experience.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
9
Radium Girls (2020)
Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler reveal a little-known part of history with a loudly beating feminist heart and a narrative grounded in reality.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
10
Synchronic (2020)
11
Over the Moon (2020)
"Over the Moon" deserves credit for launching an unflinching lesson about grief. If only it had taken a different flight path.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
12
Ham on Rye (2019)
"Ham on Rye" can be taken as an allegory for middle-class suburban life in America, but it's got added value as a potent mood piece, accomplished with a bare minimum of means.
Posted Oct 22, 2020
13
White Noise (2020)
It sticks close enough to inner circles that its message sometimes risks coming across as "extremists are just like us."
Posted Oct 21, 2020
14
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Unlike the curiosity that seemed to motivate Cohen in the previous film, here the goal appears to be to goad people to confirm what we already know.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
15
Double Speed (1920)
16
Rebecca (2020)
Who thought this was a good idea?
Posted Oct 21, 2020
17
C+
Clouds (2020)
Big on hugs and scant on plot, the gentle, hazy script is jolted by dramatic moments that are quickly ushered away unresolved as if to shrug, that's life.
Posted Oct 20, 2020
18
C-
Books of Blood (2020)
Barker's books were confettied and assembled by leaf blower, along with a few pilfered pages from Jordan Peele
Posted Oct 20, 2020
19
Three Week-Ends (1928)
20
21
She's a Sheik (1927)
There are quite a number of novel episodes in this photoplay, but... one can hardly accuse it of being outrageously funny or possessing much more than a mere skeleton of a story.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
22
[The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández] puts the killing in the context of geopolitics.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
23
The Seduction of Mimi (1974)
Sexual hypocrisies and political dilemmas rarely flow smoothly onto the screen. But Lina Wertmuller excels in conveying both, in The Seduction of Mimi.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
24
Crimewave (1986)
25
[An] engaging and sometimes heart-tugging picture...
Posted Oct 15, 2020
26
Belly of the Beast (2020)
"Belly of the Beast" does not reach for happy endings and is most absorbing in its thesis, which makes the stakes of this battle against human rights violations loud and clear.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
27
28
Martin Eden (2020)
The true miracle of this film is how Marcello translates both London's scabrous tone and his lush, character-revealing prose into pure cinema.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
29
Love and Monsters (2020)
An imaginative post-apocalyptic coming-of-age film...
Posted Oct 15, 2020
30
Honest Thief (2020)
It's an inoffensive movie, full of such familiar tropes, it hardly matters if you can keep your eyes open to the end.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
31
The Devil Has a Name (2020)
"The Devil Has a Name" means to deliver an inspirational lesson about the depravity of big industry and the power of the little guy. But it's mostly a muddle.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
32
Shithouse (2020)
Raiff deserves credit for an unexpectedly elliptical coda, but much of the chatter between the leads has the emo-tedium of dorm room blather.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
33
Freedia Got a Gun (2020)
Freedia's beguiling charisma carries the film, and it makes the case that her impressive power, in conjunction with collective action, could help carry a movement, too.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
34
White Riot (2019)
The group got things done, and the movie is especially compelling in its depiction of political organization in the analog age.
Posted Oct 15, 2020
35
36
The scenario was so bad that the author had to excuse it by pretending it was a dream.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
37
BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky (2020)
Here is an economy in which companies make millions by working kids to the bone. Skimming the topic is a missed opportunity, but the film's winsome stars are its saving grace.
Posted Oct 14, 2020
38
Evil Eye (2020)
Maskati's performance is a slippery mix of suave and menacing, which helps sell the farthest-fetched elements of this story.
Posted Oct 13, 2020
39
Nocturne (2020)
Contrivances are par for the course in this genre, but "Nocturne" lacks the stylistic flair to make them fun.
Posted Oct 13, 2020
40
Totally Under Control (2020)
41
Fascinating, exciting to the imagination, and yet so unfamiliar in all of its aspects that it always seems remote, elusive even, when one would like to get closer to its meaning.
Posted Oct 13, 2020
42
The War with Grandpa (2020)
43
Hubie Halloween (2020)
Sandler has always been a repository of goofy voices, but what he thought was funny about the mannered muttering he does here is unclear.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
44
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
45
Time (2020)
Substantive and stunning, the documentary "Time" delivers on the title's promise of the monumental as well as the personal.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
46
It is a remarkable picture.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
47
Charm City Kings (2020)
Things happen and then more things happen, little of it surprising.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
48
Yellow Rose (2020)
Writer-director Diane Paragas spins a story that is both politically timely and personal.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
49
Faith Based (2020)
Pity, or prayer, couldn't change the fact that "Faith Ba$ed" is abysmally unfunny.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
50
The original "American Pie" was tasteless; this version is flavorless.
Posted Oct 7, 2020