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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/5
The Wolf Man (1941)
Ironically, The Wolf Man is stronger and creepier in the scenes without the wolf man.
Posted Apr 13, 2020
2
2/5
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
Where'd You Go Bernadette is Linklater's 19th feature film, and it's also his worst.
Posted Dec 26, 2019
3
2/5
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Avengers: Infinity War at least had the good taste to abstain from Jeremy Renner. No such luck in Endgame.
Posted Dec 26, 2019
4
4/5
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Nobody except the suits at Disney clamored for a fourth Toy Story movie, and yet Pixar somehow made an unnecessary sequel that feels indispensable.
Posted Dec 26, 2019
5
4/5
Little Women (2019)
Writer-director Greta Gerwig makes the material feel vital and modern, delivering an equally challenging and crowd-pleasing movie.
Posted Dec 26, 2019
6
2.5/5
The Hero (2017)
Elliott is as magnetic as ever, but very little here feels authentic.
Posted Sep 28, 2019
7
4/5
The interviews flesh out the "story" in what amounts to another triumph for Scorsese, who has given himself a nice side gig doing rock documentaries.
Posted Jul 5, 2019
8
Ken Burns: The Civil War (2015)
The best documentary series this country has produced.
Posted May 24, 2019
9
1/5
Holmes and Watson (2018)
The smell of flop-sweat permeates the movie like real sweat in a locker room. It's too bad to be offensive, too inert to be annoying.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
10
3/5
Second Act (2018)
The cast is good enough -- if not to pull it off, at least to make it go down painlessly. Charlyne Yi supplies fun as half-phobic, half-kinky office drone.
Posted Jan 10, 2019
11
3/5
Bumblebee (2018)
12
2/5
On the Basis of Sex (2019)
13
1/5
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
A garish and empty non-spectacle.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
14
1/5
Green Book (2018)
Mahershala Ali survives with a shred of dignity intact, but Viggo Mortensen may never recover.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
15
4/5
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
Lynne Ramsay's scarred and fractured story of a violent, demon-plagued veteran who rescues stolen girls.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
16
4.5/5
Mandy (2018)
17
3/5
Aquaman (2018)
It's campy and miles over the top, but fun in its loopy wouldn't-it-be-cool-to-breathe-under-water way.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
18
4/5
The Death of Stalin (2018)
19
3/5
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
20
4/5
Cold War (Zimna wojna) (2018)
21
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Sure to charm all but the most churlish cynic, it is, like Mary Poppins herself, practically perfect in every way.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
22
3/5
The Mule (2018)
23
2/5
Vice (2018)
McKay wants to demonize and humanize Cheney at the same time, and the effect is like simultaneously watching ten different Dick Cheney biopics, all of them tedious.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
24
3/5
If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)
At its best, If Beale Street Could Talk is lovely cinematic poetry, but the film is rarely at its best.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
25
2.5/5
Vox Lux (2018)
Vox Lux does not lack for lofty aspirations, but the human drama is muddled and the observations on contemporary culture are obvious and exploitative.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
26
3.5/5
27
3.5/5
Roma (2018)
It offers an increasingly rare combination of ambition, imagination, compassion, emotion and execution.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
28
4/5
Green Book (2018)
Take a true story, add a super-smart script, brilliant turns by the two stars, and matching support from Linda Cardellini as Mortensen's wife, and you get a bullseye crowd-pleaser.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
29
4/5
The Favourite (2018)
30
2.5/5
Boy Erased (2018)
Only another impressive turn from Lucas Hedges elevates this earnest but slipshod drama above the level of an after-school special.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
31
2.5/5
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
32
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
It's all too clever by half -- or rather, by about 20 minutes; its feathery charms are hard put to support nearly two hours' running time.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
33
4/5
Widows (2018)
Davis' powerhouse presence is complemented by Rodriguez and Debicki (in a starmaking turn), plus an equally powerhouse supporting cast.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
34
1/5
Robin Hood (2018)
"Forget history," says the narration, "Forget what you think you know." Better advice would be to forget this godawful movie.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
35
2/5
36
2/5
Creed II (2018)
Whatever you think about Rocky IV, it is inarguably a mid-1980s time capsule. Creed II isn't a time capsule, but it should get buried.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
37
1.5/5
The Front Runner (2018)
38
3/5
Maria By Callas (2018)
The life of world-famous 20th-century opera singer Maria Callas gets the Amy treatment in this serviceable documentary.
Posted Nov 29, 2018
39
3/5
The Happy Prince (2018)
40
2/5
Instant Family (2018)
The movie has amusing moments, but they feel prepackaged with everything but a sitcom laugh track.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
41
3/5
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Alvarez doesn't let us linger to make sense of it all; he keeps the action set-pieces coming, and if we're never fully engaged, at least we're never bored.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
42
3/5
The Grinch (2018)
The smoothly animated result isn't as dreadful as the Jim Carrey live-action version, but it's almost as wrong-headed.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
43
2.5/5
Overlord (2018)
44
2/5
Nobody's Fool (2018)
45
46
3/5
Prospect (2018)
A high-concept film that doesn't explain itself to death is refreshing, but the margins of Prospect are far more interesting than the central story and characters.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
47
2.5/5
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
The film twists itself in knots to make Israel seem like the victim of her own crimes, but this mainly amounts to McCarthy moping around in a Kathy Geiss haircut.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
48
3/5
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Dramatically flat and frankly monotonous. On the plus side, Carell and Chalamet give fearless performances.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
49
3/5
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
A standard musical biopic with all the conventions in place... Still, the music is electrifying, and Malek is a stellar presence, as is Lucy Boynton as Mary Austin.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
50
3/5
Hunter Killer (2018)