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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2.5/4
Sundown (2022)
"Sundown" is at its most engrossing as an individual portrait, even if its inscrutable subject is a person to whom virtually no (sane) viewer will relate.
Posted Feb 2, 2022
2
2.5/4
A serviceable and lively documentary...
Posted Jan 28, 2022
3
3/4
France (2021)
[A] tasty and nutritious bouillabaisse of a film...
Posted Jan 27, 2022
4
2/4
Rifkin's Festival (2022)
In the end, the film doesn't feel like it's about very much at all. It's a throwaway movie, a bit of filler in the Woody Allen canon.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
5
4/4
Flee (2021)
"Flee" morphs from a tale of dispossession to a testament to the power of narrative - to overtake a life, and to liberate it.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
6
3/4
Jockey (2021)
Filmmaker Clint Bentley makes a tender, visually poetic feature directorial debut with "Jockey," a closely observed portrait of a man embarking on the downslope of his career.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
7
2/4
The Pink Cloud (2022)
8
2.5/4
Munich: The Edge of War (2022)
9
1/4
Scream (2022)
This "Scream" feels less like a movie than a podcast about a movie, one hosted by a claque of irritating, smarty-pants commentators who don't know when to shut up.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
10
3.5/4
Even if the idea of this film does not appeal to you, please consider it anyway.
Posted Jan 12, 2022
11
3/4
A Hero (2022)
The movie takes place in Iran, yet it's really situated in the crack of daylight that separates truth from a lie.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
12
3.5/4
"Parallel Mothers" is many things at once: a thriller about parentage, a meditation on motherhood.
Posted Jan 5, 2022
13
Excalibur (1981)
This stilted reenactment of the Arthurian saga finds Boorman evolving into a modernist parody of Cecil B. De Mille, whipping up a kitschy custume spectacle.
Posted Dec 29, 2021
14
Excalibur (1981)
Some of the more exquisite intellects among us may find it excessive. The rest of us can call it wonderful.
Posted Dec 29, 2021
15
2.5/4
Licorice Pizza (2021)
16
4/4
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
17
2/4
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Wachowski seems to be at war with her audience, rewarding them with deep-cut callbacks one moment only to roll her eyes at the entire enterprise the next.
Posted Dec 22, 2021
18
2/4
Sing 2 (2021)
A cinematic masterpiece it is not. But "Sing 2"is good enough.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
19
2.5/4
A Journal for Jordan (2021)
The movie is too tidy to ever really feel like a living, breathing thing.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
20
3/4
The Tender Bar (2021)
21
2.5/4
American Underdog (2021)
22
2/4
The King's Man (2021)
Vaughn's stylistic signature of balletic brutality is among the film's pleasures, although the narrative's hybrid tone - part academic, part acid trip - is not.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
23
1.5/4
Red Rocket (2021)
Baker can't seem to decide whether he wants us to laugh at, to pity or to understand his subjects.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
24
3.5/4
The Lost Daughter (2021)
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a quietly astonishing directorial debut with "The Lost Daughter," a crafty treatise on maternal ambivalence that delivers an unsettling emotional wallop.
Posted Dec 16, 2021
25
3/4
Nightmare Alley (2021)
26
3.5/4
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
27
3.5/4
28
There's nothing less necessary than a gratuitously dirt-digging "exposé" of "Sesame Street." But "Street Gang" isn't too far behind in its inessentialness...
Posted Dec 14, 2021
29
2/4
Swan Song (2021)
As a fairly soggy, two-hankie melodrama, "Swan Song" is effective. But I wouldn't recommend thinking about it for too long.
Posted Dec 14, 2021
30
2/4
National Champions (2021)
31
3/4
Don't Look Up (2021)
"Don't Look Up" bristles with the combustible elements of absurdity, observational humor and seething outrage that give the best political satires their edge...
Posted Dec 9, 2021
32
4/4
West Side Story (2021)
33
1.5/4
Being the Ricardos (2021)
Someone once said that laws are like sausages: It's better not to see them being made. Sadly, "Ricardos" makes the same point about comedy.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
34
4/4
Drive My Car (2021)
It feels as expansive as the whole world.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
35
3.5/4
No Sudden Move (2020)
"No Sudden Move" is a remarkably effervescent affair: not so much frothy as high-spirited, even when the story seems to be moving with the studied grace of a mime.
Posted Dec 6, 2021
36
Annie Live! (2021)
It was completely fine. Perfectly pleasant, even.
Posted Dec 3, 2021
37
2/4
For all its beauty and poignancy, "The Hand of God" suffers from a strange paradox: It goes on too long but somehow doesn't go far enough.
Posted Dec 2, 2021
38
2/4
Wolf (2021)
If it's an allegory, it trivializes whatever it's allegorizing.
Posted Dec 1, 2021
39
2.5/4
Encounter (2021)
40
4/4
Cusp (2021)
In this mesmerizing, revelatory and deeply compassionate film, viewers are left with an indelible impression of girlhood at its most precarious and indomitable.
Posted Nov 24, 2021
41
3/4
The Humans (2021)
The house is definitely haunted in "The Humans," Stephen Karam's skillfully filmed adaptation of his Tony-winning 2016 play.
Posted Nov 24, 2021
42
3.5/4
C'mon C'mon (2021)
43
3/4
Encanto (2021)
It's a creative, fresh take on a story that is much more complex than your standard fairy tale.
Posted Nov 24, 2021
44
1.5/4
House of Gucci (2021)
45
2.5/4
India Sweets and Spices (2021)
There are some good laughs to be had, some good lessons to be learned and room to discuss the importance of being allowed to be imperfect.
Posted Nov 17, 2021
46
2/4
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
47
3/4
The First Wave (2021)
48
3/4
Julia (2021)
49
3.5/4
King Richard (2021)
Will Smith delivers a ferocious, all-consuming performance in "King Richard," a thoroughly entertaining portrait of Richard Williams - better known as Venus and Serena's father.
Posted Nov 17, 2021
50
4/4
The Power of the Dog (2021)