Orlando Weekly
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Sisters with Transistors (2020)
2
3/5
The Truffle Hunters (2020)
The film's humor and beauty overwhelm its vagueness and tendency toward tedium.
Posted Apr 30, 2021
3
3.25/5
The Courier (2020)
Nitpicks aside, The Courier is eminently watchable, even occasionally compelling,
Posted Mar 18, 2021
4
4.5/5
The Father (2021)
A performance of the stature of Hopkins' in The Father doesn't come along often. Let's cherish it while we can.
Posted Mar 17, 2021
5
3.75/5
Nomadland (2021)
Zhao's screenplay ... doesn't strike a single insincere note, [and] I'm grateful for the opportunity to follow Fern and her friends on their journey.
Posted Feb 17, 2021
6
4.25/5
Minari (2020)
It's ... arguably the best movie of 2020 ... filmed primarily in a language other than English.
Posted Feb 12, 2021
7
3.5/5
Mank (2020)
If it's no Citizen Kane, it at least warrants tearing yourself away from TCM for a couple hours.
Posted Dec 4, 2020
8
3/5
The Last Vermeer (2020)
The film's triumph is not its reintroduction of van Meegeren to the world, though that is commendable. Instead, it's the conversation it fosters about art itself.
Posted Nov 23, 2020
9
1.75/5
Shiva Baby (2021)
Despite moments of laughter and poignancy, the film - which is essentially one long scene at a Jewish funeral gathering - leaves one with a palpable feeling of "Is that all?"
Posted Nov 12, 2020
10
3/5
Asia (2021)
The emotional impact of that re-examination takes a while to build, and ... the storytelling isn't always as crisp as it could be. But the payoff is profound.
Posted Nov 12, 2020
11
3.25/5
"Why do you live?" [Klara] asks him. "Is there any real answer to that?" he responds. But, despite all odds, they find a reason - together.
Posted Nov 12, 2020
12
2/5
Tenet (2020)
13
2.75/5
Tesla (2020)
Almereyda ... still has something interesting to say and, more often than not, a refreshingly strange way to say it.
Posted Aug 19, 2020
14
4/5
Boys State (2020)
Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss ... craft not just one of the best recent documentaries but one of this year's most revelatory and relevant films of any genre.
Posted Aug 14, 2020
15
3.25/5
Summerland (2020)
Its period charm, tight screenplay and interesting story transcend its contrivances. It's especially buoyed by Gemma Arterton's great lead performance.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
16
3.75/5
Some Kind of Heaven (2021)
A tragicomic ... combination of The Stepford Wives and an Errol Morris movie, it's one of the best documentaries you'll see this year.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
17
1.25/5
Shithouse (2020)
With a rambling structure and subpar craftsmanship, Shithouse smells too much like a low-budget debut film.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
18
3/5
The Perfect Candidate (2020)
Not unlike her movie's lead character, director Haifaa Al-Mansour is a trailblazer, becoming in 2012 the first Saudi woman to direct a feature.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
19
2.75/5
The desserts - and the stories behind them - are delectable.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
20
1.5/5
Landfall (2021)
Aldarondo's spotlight is often too dim, too oblique to function as anything more than an intriguing but vague tone poem for Puerto Rico's suffering.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
21
1.25/5
18 to Party (2020)
There's just too little joy, humor, originality and entertainment in this dimly lit, low-budget slice-of-lifer.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
22
3/5
Born Into the Gig (2019)
The simple premise slowly morphs into an enjoyable, honest and occasionally prophetic examination of what it takes to follow in the familial footsteps of giants.
Posted Aug 5, 2020
23
3.5/5
Adam (2021)
24
1.5/5
The Beach House (2020)
25
2.5/5
The King of Staten Island (2020)
26
3/5
Judy & Punch (2020)
Even the music is anachronistic, featuring everything from Leonard Cohen to Johann Sebastian Bach. Yet this is one Baroque film that doesn't need fixing.
Posted Jun 4, 2020
27
Kaboom (2011)
28
1.75/5
The Vast of Night (2020)
Patterson's movie ... extends its stylish hand into the vastness of space and comes up empty.
Posted May 28, 2020
29
5/5
Holy Motors (2012)
30
2.25/5
While Australian director Justin Dallas Kurzel's True History of the Kelly Gang is just the latest in this cinematic legacy, it's arguably the most visceral and brutal.
Posted Apr 24, 2020
31
The Hunt (2020)
32
1.75/5
Extra Ordinary (2020)
If only the film had confined its story to [Rose and Martin's] blossoming friendship and potential romance, with the paranormal activity presented as charmingly odd subtext.
Posted Mar 11, 2020
33
4/5
34
4.25/5
63 Up (2019)
There can never be an unimportant chapter in the lives of real human beings. For that reason, the new 63 Up demands watching just as much as any of the previous eight.
Posted Jan 24, 2020
35
4/5
The Guilty (Den skyldige) (2018)
Combining Sorry, Wrong Number's radio-drama appeal and Locke's claustrophobic tension, The Guilty might be the best film of [the 2018 Florida Film Festival].
Posted Jan 19, 2020
36
3/5
Borg Vs. McEnroe (2018)
37
2.75/5
Like wine, [the movie] also requires time and space to breathe, and writer-director Cédric Klapisch certainly gives us more than enough time to indulge.
Posted Jan 19, 2020
38
2.75/5
The Biggest Little Farm (2019)
39
3.5/5
Official Secrets (2019)
40
4.75/5
1917 (2020)
The finished product is arguably the greatest single-take illusion in cinema history. And it's also the best movie about the Great War since Lawrence of Arabia in 1962.
Posted Jan 8, 2020
41
2.5/5
The Irishman (2019)
42
4.25/5
The Two Popes (2019)
43
3/5
The Report (2019)
44
4.5/5
Marriage Story (2019)
45
3/5
Cats (2019)
46
4.25/5
Everyone at the screening I attended sat in quiet, contemplative attention for almost all of Hanks' equally quiet, contemplative performance.
Posted Jan 6, 2020
47
2/5
In trying to please everyone... Rise of Skywalker struggles to please anyone.
Posted Dec 18, 2019
48
3.25/5
The Aeronauts (2019)
49
3.75/5
Knives Out (2019)
In an industry that often dumbs you down, Knives Out raises your IQ.
Posted Nov 27, 2019
50
4/5
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
[A] rare, high-octane blend of art and entertainment.
Posted Nov 13, 2019