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Ty Burr's Watch List

Ty Burr's Watch List is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Ty Burr
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)

Ty Burr

It might be insufferable if not for the charm of its writer-director-star, Cooper Raiff, and his chemistry with co-star Dakota Johnson
Posted Jan 29, 2022
2
My Old School (2022)

Ty Burr

It's a cheeky movie about a nervy bugger, but it's also a slow reveal of a sad, delusional mind.
Posted Jan 29, 2022
3
All That Breathes (2022)

Ty Burr

In an inspired touch, Sen keeps returning to eye-level shots of the wildlife that wanders, surviving and unseen, through Delhi and he reminds us that humans are just one small part of an ecosystem we seem hellbent on poisoning.
Posted Jan 29, 2022
4
Three Minutes - A Lengthening (2021)

Ty Burr

It served its purpose of burning the past into our memories while trying to will it back to life.
Posted Jan 29, 2022
5
Navalny (2022)

Ty Burr

Navalny has the flow and tension of a thriller, and it has a central figure whose refusal to bend remains uncompromised even behind bars.
Posted Jan 29, 2022
6
Emily the Criminal (2022)

Ty Burr

The movie's sketchy in both senses of the word, but it's entertaining in a mildly enraging way and offers another opportunity for Plaza to stake her claim as the reigning black cloud of Hollywood actors.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
7
The Janes (2022)

Ty Burr

"The Janes" is too smart to be self-congratulatory, but the omission of any mention of the current state of affairs feels like a missed opportunity, a celebration of the past that shies away from looking at the present and future.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
8
Call Jane (2022)

Ty Burr

Banks is very good, but the decision to tell this story through its most privileged character feels like a misstep, a screenwriter's calculation that limits rather than widens the movie's scope.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
9
Resurrection (2022)

Ty Burr

Sound like fun? It isn't, but it does give Hall a chance to portray yet another character in extremis, and she is phenomenal.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
10
God's Country (2022)

Ty Burr

It's a movie that keeps one eye on this local dustup and the other on a long, sorry sweep of American conquest and neglect.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
11
Fire of Love (2022)

Ty Burr

The couple's footage of pulsing lava rivers and burning rock have a beauty that becomes mesmerizingly abstract.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
12
Descendant (2022)

Ty Burr

History and the shame it carries transformed into a survivor's tale.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
13
A Love Song (2022)

Ty Burr

The first feature written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, it alternates an appreciation for the slow revolving of the world and people's hearts with a sly streak of absurdism.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
14
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

Ty Burr

Thompson... gives her character grace, guts, mind, and body, and while some will call the performance brave, in a better world we wouldn't.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
15
Emergency (2022)

Ty Burr

A comedy-drama that wrings you out with suspense and leaves you mourning the country we live in.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
16
After Yang (2022)

Ty Burr

"After Yang" probes issues of memory, consciousness, grieving, and more with a gentleness and subtle visual imagination that is captivating.
Posted Jan 25, 2022
17
3.5/4
A Hero (2022)

Ty Burr

Farhadi works in a key of wide-screen realism, the better to let everyone have their say.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
18
1.5/4
The 355 (2022)

Ty Burr

"The 355" devolves into a bullet-spattered endurance test.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
19
2.5/4
The Tender Bar (2021)

Ty Burr

Affleck makes Charlie simultaneously lazy, acute, hard-nosed, and gentle, and the timing in his line delivery is phenomenal.
Posted Jan 7, 2022
20
2.5/4
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Ty Burr

With one exception, the action sequences in Resurrections are plentiful but perfunctory, as though Wachowski were fulfilling a contractual obligation. Instead, the movie's pulse resides with the characters and the feelings that flow between them.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
21
3/4
Swan Song (2021)

Ty Burr

"Swan Song" gets a little pokey and awfully teary in its last act, but its pop metaphysics may live inside your head for quite a while.
Posted Dec 18, 2021
22
2.5/4
Nightmare Alley (2021)

Ty Burr

Del Toro turns what was a black-and-white nightmare noir into a colorful, muscular mood piece. Yet I'm still not convinced this particular story needs to be retold...
Posted Dec 18, 2021
23
4/4
The Lost Daughter (2021)

Ty Burr

One of the year's very best movies - a spookily complex character study of a woman who's either a terrible mother or who can't forgive herself for not being a better one.
Posted Dec 18, 2021
24
3.5/4
The Hand of God (È stata la mano di Dio) (2021)

Ty Burr

Melancholy, funny, vulgar, and profound, "The Great Beauty" tries to pack it all in - it is truly a grande bellezza.
Posted Dec 16, 2021
25
2.5/4
Don't Look Up (2021)

Ty Burr

"Don't Look Up" is frantic, fitfully funny, and a not a little exhausting, and behind all the japery is a righteous anger that could be put to better use elsewhere.
Posted Dec 10, 2021
26
2/4
Being the Ricardos (2021)

Ty Burr

Nicole Kidman is good at many things, but comedy isn't one of them.
Posted Dec 10, 2021
27
4/4
West Side Story (2021)

Ty Burr

This is still the "West Side Story" we know and love. It's just been enhanced, and in all the right ways.
Posted Dec 10, 2021
28
2.5/4
House of Gucci (2021)

Ty Burr

A loud, enjoyably pointless opera buffa that fictionalizes the financial and criminal shenanigans of the famous Italian design family.
Posted Dec 1, 2021
29
3.5/4
The Power of the Dog (2021)

Ty Burr

How do we know Benedict Cumberbatch is a serious thespian? Because we have no idea who he is offscreen. He's just entirely the role he's playing at any given moment, and those roles change radically.
Posted Dec 1, 2021
30
3/4
The Humans (2021)

Ty Burr

Karam lays on the surreal unease too heavily at times, but the actors come to his rescue again and again, creating a terribly moving portrait of an American family as the lights go out one by one.
Posted Nov 23, 2021
31
3/4
C'mon C'mon (2021)

Ty Burr

There's not a lot of plot here, but there's life as we know it and as the movies don't always bottle it, and that's enough.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
32
3.5/4
King Richard (2021)

Ty Burr

Whatever rough edges have been sanded off the real Richard Williams in this telling, it's still a hell of a story.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
33
3/4
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (2021)

Ty Burr

"Karen Dalton: In Her Own Time" does what it can with its paucity of material, stretching out the few photos and fewer live performances into a palimpsest, traces of a life lived creatively if not well.
Posted Nov 18, 2021
34
3/4
Mayor Pete (2021)

Ty Burr

The movie's worth a look for the access it provides to a fascinating figure who's hardly done with public life.
Posted Nov 13, 2021
35
2.5/4
Belfast (2021)

Ty Burr

It will warm the hearts of a lot of people, including a lot of Academy voters. Is it the best picture of the year? A) Too early to tell, and B) No, but, really, it's fine.
Posted Nov 13, 2021
36
3/4
Passing (2021)

Ty Burr

The acting is satisfyingly rich, as is often the case when an actor directs a movie.
Posted Nov 10, 2021
37
3.5/4
The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

Ty Burr

This portrait of the artist as a young woman is rich with detail and mystery and satisfaction...
Posted Nov 5, 2021
38
3.5/4
Spencer (2021)

Ty Burr

I once wrote that Stewart had a narrow range and I have never been happier to eat my words.
Posted Nov 5, 2021
39
3/4
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

Ty Burr

The use of contrasting tones works exceptionally well, with director/co-writer Will Sharpe keeping things fizzy and fast-paced on the surface while making sure we're privy to the private anguish of a man who slowly left the real world behind.
Posted Nov 5, 2021
40
2.5/4
The Harder They Fall (2021)

Ty Burr

"The Harder They Fall" wobbles between witty homage and ugly Tarantinoid overkill, resulting in a movie that looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch.
Posted Nov 5, 2021
41
2/4
Finch (2021)

Ty Burr

Well before the baffling final scenes, the movie has tied itself in knots.
Posted Nov 5, 2021
42
3.5/4
How They Got Over (2021)

Ty Burr

The film offers great history and greater music.
Posted Oct 29, 2021
43
3.5/4
Dune (2021)

Ty Burr

The movie isn't "Lawrence of Arabia in Space," but it comes pretty close, and I say that as someone who went in a doubter.
Posted Oct 22, 2021
44
1.5/4
The French Dispatch (2021)

Ty Burr

Even for a Wes Anderson movie, every frame of "The French Dispatch" feels oppressively coffee-table ready - a wryly anal-retentive labor of love hermetically sealed and disconnected from any larger sense of purpose.
Posted Oct 22, 2021
45
3/4
The Last Duel (2021)

Ty Burr

"The Last Duel" works as both an entertainment - a bottle-blond Affleck roisters happily and hammily along the edges as le Gris' noble sponsor -- and a cautionary tale of how far we've come and how far we haven't.
Posted Oct 16, 2021
46
3.5/4
The Velvet Underground (2021)

Ty Burr

"The Velvet Underground" is not so much a music doc as an attempt to resurrect a lost time and place and the lost men and women in it - the sound and look of it, the loneliness and joy.
Posted Oct 16, 2021
47
3/4
I'm Your Man (2021)

Ty Burr

Honestly, if Jane Austen were alive and writing on a MacBook, she might come up with something like this.
Posted Oct 14, 2021
48
3.5/4
No Time To Die (2021)

Ty Burr

I was surprised and pleased by how well this entry... honors the compact the series has made with audiences over the decades while retooling it for today.
Posted Oct 8, 2021
49
4/4
Sankofa (1993)

Ty Burr

It's a film that seems ancient and wise.
Posted Oct 8, 2021
50
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

Ty Burr

It's a very smart piece of work that, oddly, owes as much to the films of Martin Scorsese as to the world Chase built over six appalling, satisfying seasons.
Posted Oct 2, 2021