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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/4
2
3/4
Introduction (2021)
Enough cigarettes burned in the film to fill a three-hour epic.
Posted Jan 28, 2022
3
3/4
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Nightmare Alley becomes a movie about movies. In some cases this might be empty style, or just showing off ... but here the gorgeous design of each shot is its own justification.
Posted Dec 17, 2021
4
4/4
Drive My Car (2021)
Moments bloom into radiant life.
Posted Dec 10, 2021
5
2.5/4
West Side Story (2021)
Come back, Richard Beymer, all is forgiven.
Posted Dec 3, 2021
6
4/4
Koberidze's film is my idea of why cinema exists.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
7
4/4
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
This is a glorious movie, one of the year's best.
Posted Nov 12, 2021
8
3/4
Passing (2021)
The chemistry between the two of them is persuasive-friends united, and divided, by color.
Posted Nov 5, 2021
9
2.5/4
Dune (2021)
A minimum of dialogue and a multitude of meaningful glances.
Posted Oct 22, 2021
10
4/4
The Velvet Underground (2021)
What Haynes is really conjuring here is a kind of utopia, a realm in which art is devoured and created and shared.
Posted Oct 15, 2021
11
3/4
No Time To Die (2021)
What it lacks in speed in makes up for in attitude, as the glum mood of the previous couple of Craig titles is leavened with humor and a certain pleasing deftness.
Posted Oct 8, 2021
12
3/4
13
3/4
Ema (2021)
It was refreshing to spend time with a movie that feels like it came from another era, one in which puzzling the audience was an acceptable gambit for moviemaking.
Posted Sep 3, 2021
14
2/4
Nine Days (2021)
The film's pre-ordained design, and the hopelessly sentimental climax, left me unmoved.
Posted Aug 27, 2021
15
3.5/4
Never Gonna Snow Again (2021)
A thoroughly engaging little weirdie, made with great rigor and just the right measure of black humor.
Posted Aug 27, 2021
16
2.5/4
Candyman (2021)
It reminds you how infrequently, even in horror, movies today are willing to take a main character and make him wildly unsympathetic.
Posted Aug 27, 2021
17
1.5/4
The Suicide Squad (2021)
18
3/4
Charlatan (2021)
19
3.5/4
The Woman Who Ran (2021)
Completely beguiling .... this movie looks casual, but something urgent and human is at stake.
Posted Jul 16, 2021
20
3/4
No Sudden Move (2020)
Like so much of what Soderbergh works on these days, the thing seems modest in its ambitions, until you reach particular moments and the pattern locks into place.
Posted Jul 9, 2021
21
2/4
F9 (2021)
Bathetically soulful and winkingly postmodern...engineered with the greatest digital effects possible and incompetent in matters of make-up and lighting.
Posted Jun 25, 2021
22
3/4
Les nôtres (2021)
Works committed variations on the respectable-community-with-dirty-secrets scenario.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
23
3.5/4
The Sparks Brothers (2021)
The stuff of their uncompromising career has lots of color (and great source material in the music, of course), but the thread of artistic integrity makes it almost irresistible.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
24
3.5/4
Two Lottery Tickets (2021)
The comic ideas must come from the confines of that squared-off screen space -- and, indeed, the confines become a huge part of the comedy in at least a few set-ups.
Posted Jun 11, 2021
25
3/4
Undine (2020)
It feels unfair to complain about a film that does what it wants to do very well.
Posted Jun 4, 2021
26
3.5/4
In all of its segments, the movie lets you breathe, and finds a way to allow the passage of time become slightly uncanny.
Posted May 14, 2021
27
2.5/4
The Paper Tigers (2021)
Throw in a non-postcard approach to Seattle's Chinatown/International District, and the director's canny sense of comic timing, and you've got a sleeper on your hands.
Posted May 7, 2021
28
3.5/4
The unreality -- the way snow doesn't really look like snow in the film's most enchanting sequence, but an artificial idea of snow -- is well suited to these No Exit sketches.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
29
2.5/4
In The Earth (2021)
This is the kind of movie you go along with because you enjoy the genre conventions -- or you don't.
Posted Apr 23, 2021
30
3.5/4
French Exit (2021)
31
2/4
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
32
3.5/4
The Fever (A febre) (2019)
33
3.5/4
The Inheritance (2020)
Raises the question of whether Maoists would've achieved more if they'd had access to antioxidant smoothies.
Posted Mar 19, 2021
34
3.5/4
The Father (2021)
Illuminated, often thrillingly, by a central performance from Anthony Hopkins that might be the best of his career.
Posted Mar 12, 2021
35
3.5/4
The dizzying atmosphere that emerges is haunting.
Posted Feb 26, 2021
36
3/4
Minari (2020)
Its approach seems literary more than cinematic, which may be why I'm resisting its charms a little bit.
Posted Feb 12, 2021
37
3/4
Dear Comrades! (2021)
The feeling of being absolutely at sea in the midst of political chaos is piercing.
Posted Jan 29, 2021
38
3.5/4
Notturno (2021)
Rosi can get a lot out of very little.
Posted Jan 22, 2021
39
2.5/4
Another Round (Druk) (2020)
Mikkelsen manages to imbue two syllables with a kind of terrible retreat from life, a despondent resignation masquerading as acquiescence.
Posted Dec 4, 2020
40
2.5/4
The Nest (2020)
Everything is top-notch in this film, which maybe contributes to the sense that The Nest is just a little too perfectly executed somehow.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
41
3/4
Ammonite (2020)
42
3/4
Mother (Madre) (2020)
Somewhere in the background is the specter of Jonathan Glazer's Birth, with some similarly uncomfortable results.
Posted Nov 6, 2020
43
3/4
Synchronic (2020)
44
3/4
Martin Eden (2020)
In the end I wanted to like Martin Eden more than I actually did, but a lot of it is enthralling.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
45
3/4
Major Arcana (2020)
"Not the precious object it might first appear; the film has a goofed-up strain of humor and a great ear for hostile dialogue."
Posted Oct 9, 2020
46
3/4
Kajillionaire (2020)
When Wood and Rodriguez share the screen in their unlikely partnership, we're in the company of something undeniably tender and odd.
Posted Sep 25, 2020
47
3.5/4
Mr. SOUL! (2020)
48
3/4
Buoyancy (2020)
Whatever its motivations as a docu-drama, Buoyancy also bears the unmistakable outline of a Jack London story; it's an adventure film, if a grim one.
Posted Sep 11, 2020
49
2/4
Mulan (2020)
The best I can think of for an explanation about the overall slogginess here is that the concept of Mulan really, really needs songs and talking animals.
Posted Sep 4, 2020
50
3/4
Get Duked! (2020)
A little like an Ealing film colliding with a gonzo Ben Wheatley picture.
Posted Aug 28, 2020