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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/4
The Andorra Hustle (2020)

Peter Keough

Though initially an almost-opaque flurry of acronyms, documents, and indignant interviewees, the film ultimately presents yet another indictment of those who crush with impunity whatever stands in the way of their power and profit.
Posted Sep 15, 2020
2
3/4
The Blech Effect (2020)

Peter Keough

Greenwald depicts Blech unsparingly but sympathetically.
Posted Sep 11, 2020
3
1.5/4
I Am Woman (2020)

Ty Burr

Watching "I Am Woman," you may get the ironic feeling that the woman it's about is the wrong one.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
4
1/4
Unpregnant (2020)

Ty Burr

Veronica and Bailey deserve better. So do Richardson and Ferreira. So do the women of America. And so, dear reader, do you.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
5
3/4
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020)

Mark Feeney

Even more than the music itself, or Carter's passion for it, this alertness to sharedness is what ultimately makes the film moving as well as so pleasurable.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
6
2.5/4
Sibyl (2020)

Ty Burr

That earlier film and its off-camera drama remain more compelling than anything in the busy and ultimately banal "Sibyl."
Posted Sep 10, 2020
7
2.5/4
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)

Ty Burr

With all that badinage, "The Broken Hearts Gallery" spins and glitters like a disco ball, and it's fine until you notice the missing bits of mirror.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
8
Coastal Elites (2020)

Matthew Gilbert

Each of the actors holds attention expertly, ranging through emotions seamlessly, with Roach making only a few cuts within each monologue.
Posted Sep 10, 2020
9
The Special Relationship (2010)

Matthew Gilbert

It's a pat view of history, of course... [But] The Special Relationship works well enough despite having been reduced and shaped. It's a miniature portrait of how political bonds can be created, and tested, and broken.
Posted Sep 9, 2020
10
Ravished Armenia (1919)

Globe Staff

Although the picture did not portray all of the horrors of the Armenian massacres, it was so realistic that a thoughtful silence pervaded the audience as it left the hall, and there was none of the usual chatting and laughter.
Posted Sep 5, 2020
11
3/4
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Ty Burr

Like graphic artist Chris Ware, Kaufman is a meticulous master at capturing the beauty that lies in bleakness. He's our patron saint of desolate lives.
Posted Sep 4, 2020
12
2.5/4
Tenet (2020)

Mark Feeney

Telling a story backward sounds bizarre - it is bizarre - but it works. The backward stuff in "Tenet" sounds bizarre - worse than bizarre, goofy - and for a while it works. But once it doesn't, it really doesn't.
Posted Sep 4, 2020
13
3/4
Mulan (2020)

Ty Burr

In the end, "Mulan" 2020 stands as an inspired oddity: A reenvisioned remake that improves on the original even as it owes everything to movies that have come before.
Posted Sep 3, 2020
14
2.5/4
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2020)

Mark Feeney

"Nomad" has several indelible moments: seeing the backpack and annotated script, Herzog's account of visiting Chatwin just before his death. But overall the film is static and more wayward than not.
Posted Aug 27, 2020
15
3/4
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)

Ty Burr

[A] sweet, dumb, unnecessary, and absurdly charming movie.
Posted Aug 27, 2020
16
1.5/4
Unhinged (2020)

Mark Feeney

It's hard to imagine anyone desperate to an "Unhinged" degree.
Posted Aug 26, 2020
17
Epicentro (2020)

Peter Keough

A hypnotic immersion into a country and culture embargoed by decades of our country's foreign policy, "Epicentro" combines the absurdist cinematic meditations of Werner Herzog with... John Gianvito's poetic investigations into American imperialism.
Posted Aug 26, 2020
18
3/4
Ghost Tropic (2020)

Ty Burr

The film is unexpectedly beautiful and hushed, the soundtrack unadorned except for occasional passages of Brecht Ameel's acoustic guitar and the cries of nighttime birds.
Posted Aug 26, 2020
19
2.5/4
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020)

Ty Burr

[I]t's wholly enjoyable on a scene-by-scene and character-by-character basis. But the high spirits of this handsome, well-played production fight against low-angle glimpses of grinding poverty and penury until the entire affair has to be called a draw.
Posted Aug 26, 2020
20
2.5/4
Tesla (2020)

Mark Feeney

Almereyda structures the movie as a series of slow-moving scenes, almost tableaux. Even when he uses a mobile camera, things still feel static, but in a good way.
Posted Aug 24, 2020
21
2.5/4
The One and Only Ivan (2020)

Mark Feeney

It's alternately sappy, peppy, and uplifting. The temptation to watch with the sound off is considerable, though that would do a disservice to the talents of the voice cast.
Posted Aug 24, 2020
22
3.5/4
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn (2020)

Ty Burr

It's the gulf between what people said then and now that resonates throughout this documentary, and the blind spots that continue today.
Posted Aug 17, 2020
23
2/4
Project Power (2020)

Ty Burr

"Project Power" is the kind of action/sci-fi bone-cruncher where the cast is better than the material, the characters are more interesting than the premise, and the dialogue chugs along in the middle.
Posted Aug 14, 2020
24
Hearts of the World (1918)

Globe Staff

It is interesting to note that instead of trying to outdo himself in staging gigantic battle scenes, [Griffith] used the great war only as a background for the filming of a simple and attractive love story of tremendous human interest.
Posted Aug 12, 2020
25
4/4
Boys State (2020)

Ty Burr

"Boys State" is remarkable in the way it shows this country's political future being formed away from the catechisms of parents, hometowns, and Fox News.
Posted Aug 12, 2020
26
3.5/4
A Thousand Cuts (2020)

Peter Keough

Suspenseful and depressing...
Posted Aug 11, 2020
27
3.5/4
Red Penguins (2020)

Peter Keough

Rollicking, absurd, outrageous, and ominous.
Posted Aug 11, 2020
28
You Don't Know Jack (2010)

Matthew Gilbert

There are many, many haunting scenes in HBO's docudrama You Don't Know Jack.
Posted Aug 10, 2020
29
2/4
Made in Italy (2020)

Mark Feeney

If it were any less original it'd be its own sequel.
Posted Aug 9, 2020
30
1.5/4
An American Pickle (2020)

Ty Burr

The direction by Brandon Trost is professional, but the longer you watch, the sillier the story becomes, culminating in an identity switch and generational rapprochement that is simultaneously gooey and far-fetched.
Posted Aug 9, 2020
31
3.5/4
She Dies Tomorrow (2020)

Ty Burr

"She Dies Tomorrow" takes a preposterous premise - if one that stares us in the face every day - and keeps on the right, eerie side of dramatizing it.
Posted Aug 9, 2020
32
2.5/4
Creem: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine (2020)

Ty Burr

That a new documentary about the people who wrote and published it is this close to a shambling mess is both appropriate and cheering.
Posted Aug 9, 2020
33
3/4
Black Is King (2020)

Ty Burr

Kneel before the queen, it says - and then rise up into your future.
Posted Aug 9, 2020
34
2.5/4
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)

Ty Burr

[T]his art-world thriller has enough burnished surfaces, glamorous locations, and dark doings to keep an audience rapt for much of the running time. Yet somehow you may end the movie feeling less full than when you began.
Posted Aug 9, 2020
35
The Girl (2012)

Matthew Gilbert

If you approach The Girl' as a sliver, and don't expect a full serving, you are more apt to appreciate it. And Jones is mesmerizing.
Posted Aug 4, 2020
36
The Horitz Passion Play (1897)

Globe Staff

Every scene is full of life and instinct with grace... The mimic production seemed to have an awe inspiring effect on the audience. There was intense silence during the last scenes, and many a sigh was heaved [at] the picture of Christ being scourged.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
37
2/4
Flannery (2020)

Mark Feeney

If there's a film or TV version of O'Connor's fiction, clips will be seen. This is distracting. The sound of a typewriter is frequently heard on the soundtrack. (O'Connor was a writer, get it?)
Posted Jul 30, 2020
38
2.5/4
Summerland (2020)

Ty Burr

"Summerland" briefly comes together, takes beguiling shape, and dissipates with the lingering scent of agreeable cliché.
Posted Jul 30, 2020
39
3/4
Rebuilding Paradise (2020)

Ty Burr

"Rebuilding Paradise" is well worth seeing, but know that Howard's taste for the upbeat keeps getting drowned out by a dire and dissonant doomsday drum.
Posted Jul 30, 2020
40
3/4
The Fight (2020)

Peter Keough

The filmmakers capture all four lawyers in both vulnerable and heroic moments.
Posted Jul 30, 2020
41
Temple Grandin (2010)

Matthew Gilbert

Even when the predictably rousing moments come, you may not feel manipulated so much as fascinated. The movie keeps its cool, so that Claire Danes can keep her dignity.
Posted Jul 28, 2020
42
Father Soldier Son (2020)

Matthew Gilbert

It's a pure, focused look into the complex relationship between one family and the country they serve.
Posted Jul 18, 2020
43
1.5/4
The Sunlit Night (2019)

Ty Burr

Taken as a whole, "The Sunlit Night" is fey and inconclusive, and whether something of more substance got cut in the post-Sundance re-edit or was never there to begin with is at this point moot.
Posted Jul 15, 2020
44
3.5/4
The Truth (La vérité) (2020)

Ty Burr

Using compassion and the slightest touch of syrup, Kore-eda brings his characters to a place where they realize with shock that they're finally on the same page.
Posted Jul 15, 2020
45
The Good Daughter (A zi) (2019)

Peter Keough

Relentless and infuriating, Wu's film exposes an extreme example of a universal injustice.
Posted Jul 10, 2020
46
3/4
Relic (2020)

Ty Burr

"Relic" is an exemplary entry in the New Horror canon, where psychology and atmosphere count for as much as shocks, where the inner wounds of women often take startling external form, and where less is more until the time comes for more to be more.
Posted Jul 10, 2020
47
2/4
The Old Guard (2020)

Mark Feeney

As directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, "The Old Guard" is assured and textureless: competence doing the work of inspiration.
Posted Jul 10, 2020
48
2.5/4
Greyhound (2020)

Ty Burr

"Dunkirk" or "1917," this is not. But as a window onto an under-acknowledged arena of combat and a starting point for armchair military historians, "Greyhound" is seaworthy enough to make it across.
Posted Jul 10, 2020
49
The Rabbi Goes West (2019)

Peter Keough

Peary and Geller observe the rabbi's progress with humor, acuity, and empathy.
Posted Jul 10, 2020
50
Our Time Machine (2019)

Peter Keough

S. Leo Chiang and Yang Sun's vibrant documentary about this labor of love proves to be a multi-layered metaphor of the interplay of art, memory, loss, and reconciliation, as well as a study of a touching and fraught father-son relationship.
Posted Jul 10, 2020