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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
B+
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
The film only becomes more fun as you get hip to what it's doing, with Goddard's big cast continuing to balloon over the course of this 140-minute epic.
Posted Sep 28, 2018
2
C-
Little Women (2018)
3
C
Apostle (2018)
By the time Apostle arrives at its big reveal, the movie has veered off on so many tangled pathways that the ending can't resolve them all.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
4
B+
MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. (2018)
5
B-
The Oath (2018)
[Barinholtz] manages to derive some amusing observations about toxic masculinity.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
6
D
Night School (2018)
7
B-
Fire and Dew gets an emotional coda, one that exists in the novel, that doesn't feel false in the moment.
Posted Sep 24, 2018
8
B+
Overlord (2018)
"Overlord" manages to satisfy expectations of pure escapism even as it digs deeper, and it's a welcome alternative to so many movies that don't even try.
Posted Sep 24, 2018
9
B-
Greta (2018)
A "bad" movie that's made suddenly good by the involvement of a game audience and Jordan allowing Huppert to go certifiably batshit on a doe-eyed Moretz.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
10
B-
The Weekend (2018)
11
D
Life Itself (2018)
It's a movie made for people who can't be trusted to understand any storytelling unless it's not just spoon-fed but ladled on, piled high, and explained via montage and voiceover.
Posted Sep 21, 2018
12
C
Smallfoot (2018)
Smallfoot really flounders with its obligatory message-mongering.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
13
B
14
C
Freaks (2018)
15
B
Maiden (2018)
While Maiden is satisfying on its own, it's tailor-made for a remake that can dive deeper into a story that has so much life left in it.
Posted Sep 19, 2018
16
Night Watch (2006)
17
C
This fast-paced, hyper-functional kind of storytelling doesn't allow for the depth of feeling it needs in order to work.
Posted Sep 18, 2018
18
C+
70th Emmy Awards (2018)
19
The Joy of Life (2005)
Another perfect film with a masterful screenplay
Posted Sep 17, 2018
20
B+
Bel Canto (2018)
Though Moore and Watanabe are the main focus, Bel Canto delivers the emotional payoff of a well-developed ensemble film.
Posted Sep 17, 2018
21
Everything or Nothing (2012)
The result is a story full of just as much intrigue, suspense, and heartache as in your typical spy yarn. The difference is: this all really happened.
Posted Sep 17, 2018
22
Little Sky (2004)
Powerful, even more so because it's true.
Posted Sep 16, 2018
23
November (2005)
Highly irritating and nonsensical
Posted Sep 16, 2018
24
A-
Sunset (Napszállta) (2018)
Sunset exposes that horror while also finding great beauty in it - it might not be infinitely pretty, but it's worth remembering and preserving nevertheless.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
25
B
Fleet, lucid, and very watchable, the film is as ruthlessly effective and goal-oriented as its namesake.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
26
C
The Land of Steady Habits (2018)
27
B+
Hold the Dark (2018)
28
C
The Hummingbird Project (2018)
There's a good reason why no one's ever made a movie about this before - in fact, there are probably a few.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
29
C-
A spectacular mash of half-baked ideas... Well, that, and a movie that just got lost somewhere in the editing room.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
30
B+
Maya (2018)
Maya is an off-kilter experience that never allows you to get settled, but it sinks deep under your skin because of how adamantly it refuses to get stuck in place.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
31
B
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy (2018)
32
C-
A Million Little Pieces (2018)
An adaptation that's little more than a watered-down version of a story that's already lost so much of its original consistency.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
33
B
Green Book (2018)
A touching and meaningful look at race and class in America, the likes of which studios rarely produce anymore.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
34
B+
Her Smell (2018)
35
B+
Quincy (2018)
36
C+
A Simple Favor (2018)
37
B+
Angels Are Made of Light (2018)
It's not always riveting, and it's not always clear, but Angels Are Made of Light manages to find several human beings, and not just by inviting us to admire our own reflections.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
38
A-
High Life (2018)
High Life is a pensive and profound study of human life on the brink of the apocalypse.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
39
B+
Mid90s (2018)
40
A-
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Jenkins' reliance on the original text opens up the filmmaker's style, but he also turns the material into a broader meditation on Baldwin's broader concerns.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
41
B-
Hotel Mumbai (2018)
42
B
Teen Spirit (2018)
43
A-
Widows (2018)
Ultimately, "Widows" works as well as it does due to the way McQueen juggles substance with entertainment value to such eager subversive ends.
Posted Sep 9, 2018
44
B
Ben is Back (2018)
45
B+
The Hate U Give (2018)
It's a film that contains multitudes, and only asks for a world willing to do the same.
Posted Sep 9, 2018
46
B-
Halloween (2018)
47
B-
The film is always watchable, even for all of its sluggishness.
Posted Sep 8, 2018
48
B
Beautiful Boy (2018)
With lesser performances, it would crumble under the manipulative weight of unearned gravitas, but these two actors transcend the material at every turn.
Posted Sep 8, 2018
49
C-
Outlaw King (2018)
The craft on display is often as undeniable as the cast that Mackenzie has assembled to bring it all to life, but "Outlaw King" is a moribund piece of storytelling.
Posted Sep 8, 2018
50
B+
In Fabric (2018)