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1
The Miracle (1912)

NYT Staff

What was seen and heard last night went far to emphasize that the moving picture under certain circumstances... may be capable of providing entertainment to be taken seriously by audiences which have never seen the inside of a "movie" house.
Posted Feb 26, 2021
2
Tom & Jerry (2020)

Jason Bailey

It's all flop sweat, a sad, desperate attempt to make Tom and Jerry the one thing they never were: cool.
Posted Feb 26, 2021
3
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021)

Jon Caramanica

The abundance of footage, and the space it's given to breathe - the movie is almost two and a half hours long - captures the restless loneliness of superstardom.
Posted Feb 26, 2021
4
'Til Kingdom Come (2021)

Devika Girish

Probes the entanglements of politics and prophecy that bind two strange bedfellows: American evangelical Christians and Israeli Jews.
Posted Feb 25, 2021
5
Cherry (2021)

Glenn Kenny

Eventually "Cherry" breaks free enough of its influences to present a credible, at times harrowing, American addiction tragedy.
Posted Feb 25, 2021
6
The Vigil (2021)

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Keith Thomas's slim but effective "The Vigil" milks terror from a minimalistic setup, relying on the shapes we make out with squinted eyes in the shadows.
Posted Feb 25, 2021
7
Crisis (2021)

Ben Kenigsberg

The issues - from addiction itself to the flawed incentives at institutions that might prevent it - demand a more expansive treatment.
Posted Feb 25, 2021
8
My Darling Supermarket (Meu Querido Supermercado) (2019)

Beatrice Loayza

[A] slight but intriguingly strange documentary...
Posted Feb 25, 2021
9
The Father (2021)

Jeannette Catsoulis

At once stupendously effective and profoundly upsetting, "The Father" might be the first movie about dementia to give me actual chills.
Posted Feb 25, 2021
10
A Dramatic Film (Un Film Dramatique) (2019)

Teo Bugbee

Demonstrates the liveliness and generosity that can come from civic-minded art.
Posted Feb 25, 2021
11
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

A.O. Scott

What's shocking about this movie, in the context of [Daniels'] arresting body of work, is how thin and wooden it is, how cautiously attached to the conventions of its genre.
Posted Feb 25, 2021
12
My Zoe (2021)

Glenn Kenny

Delpy writes these characters with such depth, and stages their interactions with such sensitivity, that you understand them without necessarily approving of them.
Posted Feb 24, 2021
13
Pelé (2021)

Nicolas Rapold

However conventional as a whole, the movie feels troubled by the traumas of Pelé's heyday.
Posted Feb 23, 2021
14
Babes in Arms (1939)

Frank S. Nugent

We definitely don't like the screen play by Jack McGowan and Kay Van Riper. If we must have hokum, let us at least disguise it gracefully, even when it's with music.
Posted Feb 19, 2021
15
Nomadland (2021)

A.O. Scott

In a fine Emersonian spirit, the movie rebels against its own conventional impulses, gravitating toward an idea of experience that is more complicated, more open-ended, more contradictory than what most American movies are willing to permit.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
16
Flora & Ulysses (2021)

Maya Phillips

"Flora & Ulysses" veers close to falling into the trap of cheesiness that kids' movies of this genre often find themselves in, but miraculously never does.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
17
The Violent Heart (2020)

Teo Bugbee

The subtlety of Sanga's filmmaking allows for big twists to come as a genuine surprise.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
18
Days of the Bagnold Summer (2021)

Glenn Kenny

A coming-of-age story that aspires to winsomeness and wisdom, but only gets so far.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
19
Silk Road (2021)

Glenn Kenny

In many respects, "Silk Road" is an excellent examination of why you should probably never date, or maybe even socialize with, a libertarian. It comes up short in almost every other way, though.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
20
Sin (Il Peccato) (2021)

Ben Kenigsberg

An austere, demanding sit, "Sin"... nevertheless has a stubborn integrity in exploring the competing forces of patronage and creative inspiration that Michelangelo confronted in the 16th century.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
21
Test Pattern (2021)

Devika Girish

"Test Pattern" achieves a lot with very little: The film's nonlinear editing and cannily scored silences invite our interpretations, locating in them the entanglements of race and gender.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
22
Blithe Spirit (2021)

Jeannette Catsoulis

Surplus buffoonery and a new ending add nothing to the original, leaving us with a movie that obsesses over death while showing all too few signs of life.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
23
Mafia Inc. (2020)

Ben Kenigsberg

For better or worse, Grau has a knack for staging brutality, and for having his movie rock out to a Joy Division track or two.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
24
Shook (2021)

Elisabeth Vincentelli

"Shook" is done in by its final reveal, which manages to be simultaneously improbable and conventional. For engagement, we'll have to look somewhere else.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
25
I Care a Lot (2021)

Jeannette Catsoulis

With its ice-pick dialogue and gleefully ironic title, "I Care a Lot" is a slick, savage caper with roots in a real-world scam.
Posted Feb 18, 2021
26
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Lawrence Ware

"Hampton and the Black Panther Party were always heroes to me; this is a film that does justice to their memory."
Posted Feb 17, 2021
27
To All The Boys: Always And Forever (2021)

Maya Phillips

I'm no fan of Valentine's Day unless it's a heart-shaped confection, but for those who are, "To All the Boys" is a light but satisfying dessert.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
28
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)

Beatrice Loayza

"Barb and Star" offers a mixed bag of laughs, often feeling like a Frankenstein assembly of various sketches. Still, I can't help but admire its commitment to the act, and its gloriously unhinged absurdity.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
29
French Exit (2021)

Jeannette Catsoulis

Too listless to fizz and too peculiar to win us over, "French Exit," directed by Azazel Jacobs, is hampered by clockwork quirkiness and disaffected dialogue.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
30
Minari (2020)

A.O. Scott

"Minari" is modest, specific and thrifty, like the lives it surveys. There's nothing small about it, though, because it operates at the true scale of life.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
31
Dead Pigs (2018)

Devika Girish

It's a tonal wild ride with eccentric characters, neon-lit settings and elaborately absurd detours. Unfortunately, the ripped-from-the-headlines meat of "Dead Pigs" gets lost in these affectations.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
32
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

A.O. Scott

The script, by King and Will Berson, is layered with ethical snares and ideological paradoxes, and while King's fast-paced direction doesn't spare the suspense, it also makes room for sorrow, anger and even a measure of exhilaration.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
33
Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

Glenn Kenny

[An] amoral, repellent bag of sick...
Posted Feb 11, 2021
34
There Is No 'I' in Threesome (2021)

Natalia Winkelman

The documentary evolves into an astute examination of perspective.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
35
Music (2020)

Teo Bugbee

This is a bizarre movie, one that parades confused ideas about care, fantasy and disability with a pride that reads as vanity. It is audacious, in the sense that making it certainly took some audacity.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
36
Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words (2019)

Ben Kenigsberg

Little here will seem new to those who paid attention to Ginsburg's career or watched the Oscar-nominated documentary "RBG." But the director, Freida Lee Mock, repeatedly returns to the idea that change comes in steps.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
37
The Mauritanian (2021)

Jeannette Catsoulis

Flavorless characters and a blizzard of flashbacks further repel our involvement in a drama whose timing, to say the least, is unfortunate.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
38
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

Ben Kenigsberg

If you have infinite time, it might do.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
39
Young Hearts (2021)

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

The film's hand-held camerawork contributes to the amateur aesthetic. But what initially feels like a creative choice to capture adolescent authenticity quickly becomes painful.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
40
Land (2021)

Glenn Kenny

While "Land" sometimes leans too hard on conventional signifiers (the rootsy music score is predictably somber), it's a distinctive, strong picture.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
41
Cowboys (2021)

Teo Bugbee

The conflicts at the heart of "Cowboys" are timely, coming in a moment when trans children and their rights are at the forefront of American political debate. But the writer and director Anna Kerrigan doesn't sensationalize her story.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
42
The World to Come (2020)

Ben Kenigsberg

Waterston and Kirby are both superb at creating characters whose attraction must be shown to grow by degrees, without overt admission.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
43
Lapsis (2021)

Jeannette Catsoulis

"Lapsis" isn't a polemic, it's a caricature, and all the more likable for having its claws sheathed in velvet.
Posted Feb 11, 2021
44
Twilight's Kiss (Suk Suk) (2021)

Nicolas Rapold

Tai Bo's pragmatic momentum as Pak has a way of restoring a succinctness to the movie, which avoids minimizing or exploiting the pains of concealment.
Posted Feb 10, 2021
45
Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)

Holland Cotter

Rightfully, and delightfully, the majority of voices are those of active artists... Particularly interesting are segments showing artists at work and talking about what they're doing as they're doing it.
Posted Feb 8, 2021
46
The Eternal Sapho (1916)

NYT Staff

[Bara] has vampired so much that she has lost her sense of values and caricatures a type of woman she formerly gave a vivid portrait of... The fault is really the director's for making her repeat so often a thing that was exaggerated in the beginning.
Posted Feb 5, 2021
47
Life in a Day 2020 (2021)

Chris Azzopardi

The result is a tediously formatted stream of categorized segments that might as well fall into hashtagged classifications: Environmental Conservation, Zoom Life, Class of 2020, Love Is Love and You Weren't the Only One Cooking All the Time.
Posted Feb 5, 2021
48
Little Big Women (2021)

Natalia Winkelman

By the time it is over, "Little Big Women" has lost any sense of restorative power - all that registers is tedium.
Posted Feb 5, 2021
49
Merton of the Movies (1924)

NYT Staff

A brilliant pictorial effort which draws laughter with a lump in one's throat and makes one smile through tears.
Posted Feb 4, 2021
50
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

John J. O'Connor

[Tyson's] performance, though, goes far beyond the make-up. She absorbs herself completely into Miss Jane, in the process creating a marvelous blend of sly humor, shrew perceptions and innate dignity.
Posted Feb 4, 2021