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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Anchor and Hope (2017)
Fey and feel-good are never far off. But the churn of darker water, in middle and late scenes, makes the journey interesting.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
2
2/5
The Wife (2018)
What secret grief is not being told here? Don't ask me to spill or spoil: it's pretty much all the film has.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
3
5/5
Skate Kitchen (2018)
4
Black '47 (2018)
The story glums along earnestly for 100 minutes that seem, and possibly were, 100 days.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
5
3/5
Nureyev (2018)
Nureyev is, and yet isn't, the documentary you have been waiting for.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
6
2/5
MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. (2018)
Couldn't it have pushed more on the doors of debate? Questioned more the motives - lightly interrogated - of the singer's political activism?
Posted Sep 19, 2018
7
2/5
Climax (2018)
What's the film all about? Keep guessing. My hunch: it's a staging idea that never acquired a thematic idea to go with it.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
8
4/5
The Little Stranger (2018)
With Gleeson, the female stars clinch this drama of dread and desperation.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
9
4/5
A typical, even archetypal, Varda mixture of the combative and the contemplative.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
10
2/5
The Predator (2018)
Earth hath not anything to show more daft than The Predator.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
11
4/5
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
The whole film has an idiotic élan. It's a Jane Austen story done as razzmatazz romcom, plus a bit of all-singing, all-dancing Rebecca.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
12
4/5
Michael Inside (2017)
Good research must have helped Berry attain his 20/20 peripheral vision. No minutia or refraction-of-a-minutia seems false.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
13
2/5
The King of Thieves (2018)
It's an Ealing-style comedy thriller, school of The Lavender Hill Mob, without much thrill comedy.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
14
3/5
Lucky (2017)
15
5/5
The Rider (2018)
Not fiction; not documentary. Instead, a story standing under a chimerical moon while fate, laconic and inarticulate like its victims, growls from far off.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
16
4/5
Wajib (2017)
Filmmaker and author-poet Annemarie Jacir films the faces, the doleful one-stop living rooms, the dusty downtown streets. It's a doggerel odyssey, mischievously done.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
17
3/5
Non-Fiction (2018)
A minor work from Olivier Assayas...
Posted Sep 6, 2018
18
4/5
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
For all its violent and drunken outbursts, it's the film's warmth that lingers like a gently throbbing hangover.
Posted Sep 6, 2018
19
4/5
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
20
4/5
Vox Lux (2018)
21
4/5
In Praise of Nothing (2017)
22
4/5
The film feels like one made not just about young people but for them.
Posted Sep 5, 2018
23
American Animals (2018)
This is a film that takes deep pleasure in itself. Much of the time, you will be pleased with it too.
Posted Sep 5, 2018
24
The Seagull (2018)
None of the actors is less than poised, and Mayer delivers cinematic snap, making everything look velveteen, moving events along at pace.
Posted Sep 5, 2018
25
4/5
Suspiria (2018)
In terms of plot and performances this is a major improvement on the much-loved but ludicrous original.
Posted Sep 4, 2018
26
4/5
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The good outweighs the bad and ultimately it's no fool's gold, even if it's not quite 24-carat (or should that be carrot?).
Posted Sep 4, 2018
27
5/5
The Favourite (2018)
The Favourite is an absolute riot, a scabrous and wickedly enjoyable bodice-ripper that makes the dastardly deeds of Dangerous Liaisons look positively tame.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
28
5/5
Roma (2018)
Cuarón shoots in a generous widescreen that seems to take in all the sights, sounds and even smells of barrio life.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
29
2/5
A Star Is Born (2018)
This is the fourth iteration of A Star Is Born, and even if you haven't seen the previous versions, the formula will be familiar.
Posted Aug 31, 2018
30
3/5
First Man (2018)
31
2/5
Action Point (2018)
Action Point has lots of action and no point.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
32
3/5
Yardie (2018)
By the end the movie's wall-to-wall carpeting is dead bodies and the underfelt is a disintegrating script.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
33
3/5
Think of the melting-pot mirth of mingling social strata in The Marriage of Figaro, then subtract Mozart.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
34
3/5
Upgrade (2018)
Fun for an hour, then a self-drive speed ride to nowhere very much.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
35
3/5
Cold War (Zimna wojna) (2018)
Cold War is 88 minutes of thermal underwear looking for a full outfit of winter ideas.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
36
4/5
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
BlacKkKlansman's determination to be everything for everybody - comedy/ melodrama, wish-fulfilment fable/awful warning - proves its unexpected, unconventional master-choice.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
37
3/5
Alpha (2018)
It looks wonderful and spins scenic variants on the kind of suspense set-piece you expect in a wilderness yarn.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
38
2/5
The Children Act (2018)
39
4/5
The King (2018)
The King is exhilarating because it doesn't do "truth". It does Tom Wolfe-style free association and play of ideas, of which surely the best is that the King was King Kong reborn.
Posted Aug 22, 2018
40
3/5
Equalizer 2 (2018)
It's the same action-and-avenging nonsense as before, but directed with fair zest by Antoine Fuqua.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
41
4/5
The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)
It's fascinating stuff.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
42
3/5
Christopher Robin (2018)
The story is cleverly worked.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
43
4/5
It's not just visual beauty that this film rejoices in. It's some kind of primal story force. It's calendar art, plus calendar power: the sense of history's turning pages.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
44
4/5
Distant Constellation (2017)
[A] semi-great documentary ...
Posted Aug 15, 2018
45
2/5
It's a maddening film because, ultimately, it seems sycophantic to, and unchallenging of, the papal institution and Catholicism themselves.
Posted Aug 8, 2018
46
5/5
The Heiresses is a tickling, near-perfect tragicomedy from Paraguay. The nuances are so fine you could slip them between adjacent atoms.
Posted Aug 8, 2018
47
4/5
Imagine a Mike Leigh film with fangs, directed in a style of Nordic deadpan.
Posted Aug 8, 2018
48
3/5
Beirut (2018)
Dyspeptic wisdoms from Hamm about survival politics in conflict zones precede the slide into chase action and ticking-bomb deadlines.
Posted Aug 8, 2018
49
5/5
Sicilian Ghost Story (2017)
Word and image, the human and the animal, the living and the ghostly, become part of a pattern, intricate and organic, worked while we watch.
Posted Aug 1, 2018
50
4/5