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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
La La Land (2016)
It's a really, really fun movie.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
2
La La Land (2016)
It is joyful. It leaps off the screen.
Posted Oct 10, 2018
3
9.5/10
Selma (2015)
[Ava DuVernay] manages to get both the small and the big moments. Thiis at one of the best movies of the year.
Posted Oct 3, 2018
4
9.2/10
Selma (2015)
5
8.9/10
The Florida Project (2017)
What bothered me about this (and I ended up loving it) is that the kids are terrible.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
6
7.5/10
The Florida Project (2017)
7
9.6/10
The Florida Project (2017)
I knew form the first shot that I was watching a truly great movie... It's so real, it's so raw.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
8
8.5/10
Selma (2015)
David Oyelowo breathes such life into it and makes you feel like you're seeing this person for the first time.
Posted Sep 25, 2018
9
9.5/10
13th (2016)
What [DuVernay] achives in a relatively short amount of time... feels thorough and yet concise and it's calmly powerful.
Posted Sep 24, 2018
10
9.5/10
Tower (2016)
You feel like you were there that day from the perspectives of the principal players.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
11
9.6/10
Tower (2016)
[The rotoscope technique] gives it urgency and a sense of movement.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
12
9.5/10
Tower (2016)
This movie is very smart about when it unpacks its interviews versus its recreations. It does it in such a way that I was emotionally flooded.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
13
7/10
Support the Girls (2018)
It's got a very wry, affectionate sense of humor, and I found myself laughing at the stuff in recognition rather than laughing at them.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
14
8.8/10
Support the Girls (2018)
It's a celebration of sisterhood...This movie is so understated that this theme sneaks up on you in ways that are quietly powerful.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
15
5.8/10
The Bookshop (2018)
I don't know how anyone thought this was still relevant now, because it's such an obvious idea.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
16
6/10
The Bookshop (2018)
[Isabel Coixet's] movies tend to be a little on the safe and vague side, and I think this movie falls into both of these traps.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
17
7.5/10
Searching (2018)
There's no question now...[John Cho] is a great actor. Only a great actor could do what he is required to do in this movie and pull it off the way he does.
Posted Aug 23, 2018
18
3.5/10
The Happytime Murders (2018)
It's just a waste of potential and time.
Posted Aug 23, 2018
19
2.5/10
The Happytime Murders (2018)
It never is anything more than the absolute simplest of concepts.
Posted Aug 23, 2018
20
8.1/10
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
21
7.5/10
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
[Awkwafina] almost steals the movie and never gives it back.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
22
8.8/10
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
This movie is totally delightful...It's a wonderful mix of old-fashioned screwball comedy, romantic comedy, it's almost a musical at some points.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
23
8/10
We the Animals (2018)
A lot is told wordlessly very efficiently.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
24
8/10
We the Animals (2018)
The movie doesn't tell you things, it just sort of leaves it to you to infer them from what the kids see.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
25
4.5/10
Mile 22 (2018)
There are pieces of very interesting movies here, but they never come together.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
26
2/10
Mile 22 (2018)
You have no idea what's going on. This movie is so overly edited, it's all shaky cam.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
27
2.5/10
Mile 22 (2018)
This [movie] is dull and erratic.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
28
8.6/10
Skate Kitchen (2018)
I was impressed by the tonal and aesthetic balance that Crystal Moselle finds here.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
29
The Cleanse (2018)
30
9/10
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
A masterful tension of "I'm going to make you laugh, and I'm also going to make you feel really weird and uneasy".
Posted Aug 10, 2018
31
8/10
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Spike is contained by a true story, and being contained allows him to focus.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
32
9/10
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
This is one of his best films because he marries the anger and intensity with the restraint and poetry that he's so good at visually.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
33
The Meg (2018)
It would've benefitted by being more dumb.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
34
5/10
The Meg (2018)
I wanted this movie to be wackier, crazier, and over the top, the problem is that it's PG13.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
35
5.8/10
Dog Days (2018)
If you want just like light happy doggy movie but, you also want the deep catharsis the satisfying deep cry this is it.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
36
3/10
Like Father (2018)
I've never seen Kristen Bell more unlikable and Kelsey Grammer more likable ever until this movie.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
37
4/10
Like Father (2018)
38
5/10
Like Father (2018)
39
5/10
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
40
7/10
Never Goin' Back (2018)
These two actresses have really lovely chemistry with each other.
Posted Aug 3, 2018
41
7.3/10
Never Goin' Back (2018)
I was quite charmed by them.
Posted Aug 3, 2018
42
7.7/10
The Bleeding Edge (2018)
43
7.3/10
The Bleeding Edge (2018)
It is hard to watch, but it's a must-see. My one complaint is that maybe it tries to get its arms around too much.
Posted Aug 1, 2018
44
7/10
[Scotty Bowers] is sort of a fascinating jumble of contradictions.
Posted Jul 27, 2018
45
7/10
It's really interesting storytelling, and it's a story that is important [to be] told.
Posted Jul 27, 2018
46
8.6/10
47
8.7/10
There's a bit of an excess happening here, but it's excess of all good stuff.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
48
9/10
It is jaw-dropping. See it on the biggest screen you can find.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
49
9/10
Strong Island (2017)
It's deceptively simple, but it does so much so well. It's heartbreaking by the end...It's just really, really powerful.
Posted Jul 24, 2018
50
9.5/10
Strong Island (2017)