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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Last Looks (2022)
Kirkby does keep up a jaunty pace. But he also seems preoccupied with impressing his inner hipster, as with an attitude toward race that dares you to call it cavalier.
Posted Feb 2, 2022
2
Beloved (1998)
Demme succeeds uncannily well in bringing the novel's pulse to the screen.
Posted Feb 1, 2022
3
My Best Friend Anne Frank (2022)
The credits underline the tin ear of the whole endeavor by declaring that Anne "became what she wanted: world-famous."
Posted Feb 1, 2022
4
C-+
Home Team (2022)
The facts have been rejiggered to fit the Sandman's formula: Our hero is a seething screw-up, and everyone else is even worse.
Posted Jan 31, 2022
5
Nothing But a Man (1963)
Ivan Dixon is excellent... and Abbey Lincoln plays the wife with such warm, gentle, sentient responses that she keenly touches the heart.
Posted Jan 31, 2022
6
Adults may find themselves absorbed in nit-picking this movie's voices to gauge their fidelity to the originals - at least it distracts from the dialogue.
Posted Jan 28, 2022
7
La Soga: Salvation (2022)
"La Soga Salvation" is the quintessential sequel-nobody-asked-for.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
8
Rumble (2021)
The lackluster computer-animated movie Rumble hinges on what should be a boisterous high concept...
Posted Jan 27, 2022
9
A Taste of Hunger (2022)
The effect is a movie that resembles nothing so much as the centerpiece of the Malus menu - a hot dog made with elevated ingredients.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
10
The Fallout (2021)
What this debut feature from Megan Park gets right is how painfully awkward and strange the effects of trauma can often be, especially when experienced by a group of adolescents.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
11
Futura (2022)
None of us knows what the future holds, but a film like this is a reminder of why we should care.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
12
They/Them/Us (2022)
For the most part the movie treats bondage and discipline as ordinary, fulfilling pastimes for consenting adults.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
13
Clean (2022)
"Clean" has some real craft, but doesn't quite satisfy as it toggles between bloodbaths and bathos.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
14
The Conductor (2022)
As filmmaking, "The Conductor" takes a fairly standard approach. The most engaging portions involve music-making itself.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
15
Sundown (2022)
16
Compartment No. 6 (2021)
Vulnerable women and dangerous men are clichés, but they're also turned on their heads in this smart, emotionally nuanced film that rarely goes where you expect.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
17
18
Sidewalk Stories (1989)
Although Sidewalk Stories has a sentimental streak a mile wide, it is saved from seeming saccharine by the hard facts of modern life.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
19
Donkeyhead (2022)
Despite her minor rebellions, Mona remains a frustratingly opaque character; a stereotypically troubled woman whose eventual awakening merits a shrug at most.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
20
C+
The Royal Treatment (2022)
A deliberately, almost defensively, inane trifle -- a cupcake whose icing reads, "Enjoy the tooth decay."
Posted Jan 20, 2022
21
The Tiger Rising (2022)
The metaphors are so obvious that the film becomes trapped in its own cage of archetypes and clichés...
Posted Jan 20, 2022
22
Salt in My Soul (2022)
23
Introduction (2021)
It's a taste worth acquiring.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
24
Simple Passion (2020)
While keeping a stalwart female perspective, "Simple Passion" follows an arc so standard it could be called banal.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
25
Munich: The Edge of War (2022)
A plodding bureaucratic procedural that features many, many characters strategizing in various spaces with furrowed brows and clenched jaws, mostly in relentless medium close-up.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
26
A Shot Through the Wall (2022)
The brisk, eventful melodrama has an undeniably absorbing appeal...
Posted Jan 20, 2022
27
The King's Daughter (2022)
28
The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)
"The Last Thing Mary Saw" is as surprising as it is frustrating.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
29
The gently efficient story feels like an attempt to illustrate Bhutan's real-life "Gross National Happiness" initiative.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
30
Here, Calzado uses more experimental techniques to expand his narrative, paralleling the flickering impermanence of filmed images with physical and psychological decay.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
31
"Nocturna" weaves memory and nightmare into a haunting tale of loneliness and regret.
Posted Jan 18, 2022
32
Belle (2022)
Colors and hearts explode in "Belle," and your head might too while watching this gorgeous anime.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
33
34
A Cops and Robbers Story (2022)
The repetition of verbal and visual storytelling points to the limited scope of this film.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
35
Scream (2022)
Wearyingly repetitive and entirely fright-free, "Scream" teaches us mainly that planting Easter eggs is no substitute for seeding ideas.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
36
"Transformania" feels locked into the routine rhythms of its plotting and makes one-note jokes out of its human incarnations. It even ends with a character shrugging.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
37
Why Is We Americans? (2022)
It's a story that spans past and present, arts and politics, and kin and country - and the movie, with its haphazard editing, struggles to contain it all.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
38
The Pink Cloud (2022)
Like other works of prescient sci-fi, "The Pink Cloud" forecasts an eerie funhouse-mirror image of our present lives.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
39
Brazen (2022)
"Brazen" is the murder mystery version of a Hallmark Christmas romance.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
40
Dear Mother (2020)
Beyond the pleasurable chaos of it all, the gags about female genitalia grow trite and juvenile - and not in a lovable way.
Posted Jan 12, 2022
41
The Commando (2022)
A spectacularly atrocious, ostensible action thriller, "The Commando" is distinguished by an incompetence that extends even to locations.
Posted Jan 12, 2022
42
See For Me (2022)
This uninvolving thriller is as lacking in tension as credibility.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
43
Expedition Content (2020)
[A] startling and fascinating experimental documentary...
Posted Jan 6, 2022
44
C-
The 355 (2022)
45
A Hero (2022)
[An] ingenious and engrossing movie...
Posted Jan 5, 2022
46
American Gadfly (2021)
47
C-
Seal Team 666 (2017)
An '80s surf shirt come to life, a neon assault of screeching metal guitars and bellowing inanity.
Posted Dec 31, 2021
48
Poupelle of Chimney Town (2021)
The film ultimately shies away from its most disturbing ideas, falling back on a comforting sentimentality.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
49
Jockey (2021)
Sentimental yet also trickier and more complex than its gleaming surfaces suggest, Jockey is a portrait of a man facing his mortality or at least professional redundancy.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
50
The Lost Daughter (2021)