Consequence of Sound
Tomatometer-approved publication
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
B
Filmworker (2018)
At its best, the documentary highlights [Vitali's] boundless zeal for this work that made him so indispensable.
Posted May 23, 2018
2
D+
Book Club (2018)
The film's humor ranges from unfunny to painfully unfunny - although the painfully unfunny stuff does at least make the unfunny jokes look better by comparison.
Posted May 18, 2018
3
C+
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
The movie is about as hollow as a prop book.
Posted May 17, 2018
4
A-
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
5
C+
Deadpool 2 (2018)
For the snotty little brother of 20th Century Fox's crown jewel franchise that it aims to be, Deadpool 2 is clever enough in its giddily obnoxious way.
Posted May 14, 2018
6
B
Searching (2018)
It's a testament to how well-made the film is that the mystery always remains far more engrossing than the showy gimmick.
Posted May 11, 2018
7
D
Dark Crimes (2018)
There is nearly nothing subtle about Dark Crimes. Not in its blunt title, nor in its heavy-handed script or flashy, unbalanced performances.
Posted May 10, 2018
8
C-
Life of the Party (2018)
Once Life of the Party accepts itself as something broad and silly, it goes down a lot easier for everybody.
Posted May 10, 2018
9
B-
Bodied (2017)
Bodied has an unfortunate tendency to stop just short of landing some of its most aggressive punches.
Posted May 9, 2018
10
B+
Fast Color (2018)
This is sci-fi which trusts its audience to fill in the blanks and do just a little bit of the heavy lifting, and it's better off for it.
Posted May 9, 2018
11
D
Terminal (2018)
Drawing from a host of late-nineties influences but doing nothing with them, Terminal is little more than a shallow exercise in dated crime movie pastiche.
Posted May 9, 2018
12
B
Damsel (2018)
13
B-
Revenge (2018)
14
B
Anon (2018)
Holes, stiff formalities, and a dithering story can be forgiven when Anon often feels so thoughtful and even compelling.
Posted May 7, 2018
15
B+
Tully (2018)
Theron's a perfect avatar for Cody's irrepressible empathy for her subjects, wounded and loving in equal measure, and she's hardly been more watchable.
Posted May 2, 2018
16
B
RBG (2018)
RBG convincingly argues that Ginsburg herself is a figure worth admiring, whether or not you agree with her politics and whether or not you like those memes.
Posted May 2, 2018
17
B
The Week Of (2018)
Sure, there's the usual screeching and shtickiness and product placement, but the flick is also surprisingly easy-going, capturing the nervous energy that comes with weddings.
Posted Apr 29, 2018
18
B+
Disobedience (2018)
The performances, like the film, are rich, layered things of tremendous feeling and complexity. The characters, like the film, are imperfect but well worthy of cherishing.
Posted Apr 28, 2018
19
A
The Rider (2018)
The Rider is Jandreau's story to tell, and he relives every moment of this terrible time in his life with an unbelievable stoicism and psychological depth.
Posted Apr 26, 2018
20
B
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
It's effective at being all the things it needs to be, even if that necessity is the thing that holds it back the most.
Posted Apr 25, 2018
21
B-
Kodachrome (2018)
You know the characters, the beats, and the general arc. You know how it will end before the first act concludes, and that's fine. The journey's pleasant enough.
Posted Apr 21, 2018
22
B
Paterno (2018)
23
C+
I Feel Pretty (2018)
I Feel Pretty ultimately winds up feeling like a cosmetics company co-opting the language of self-love to sell its products: Empowering, but also a little hollow.
Posted Apr 18, 2018
24
C-
Super Troopers 2 (2018)
Super Troopers 2 fails to update its comic sensibilities to something a little more modern, the actors' charisma sinking in a sea of dead jokes.
Posted Apr 17, 2018
25
B-
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018)
Zimny does the smartest thing a music documentarian can do: he lets the songs breathe, and speak for the artist.
Posted Apr 14, 2018
26
D+
Blumhouse's Truth or Dare (2018)
This is, by and large, forgettable cinema, the kind that production company Blumhouse has a long history of pumping out in between its tentpoles.
Posted Apr 12, 2018
27
D+
Rampage (2018)
Rampage makes vigorous use of all of Johnson's attributes, being that it's somehow one of the most ridiculous films in which he's starred to date.
Posted Apr 11, 2018
28
B-
6 Balloons (2018)
29
A
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
This is cinema in every sense, the kind of film that demands your full engagement with every moving part of film as a medium as it unfolds.
Posted Apr 6, 2018
30
B-
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
It's a mess, but a glorious one, the kind of ambitious, unapologetic project that's most notable for its perspective.
Posted Apr 4, 2018
31
D+
Tyler Perry's Acrimony (2018)
That the film never fully gets to the heart of its savage commentaries is probably its greatest disappointment.
Posted Mar 31, 2018
32
D
Game Over, Man! (2018)
At all turns, Game Over, Man! is a cynical vehicle for the kind of outdated humor that fell out of style more than a decade ago.
Posted Mar 23, 2018
33
D+
Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
What makes a fight compelling onscreen isn't the motion of a punch. It's what spurs the punch, what the punch means, how it feels, and what happens after.
Posted Mar 21, 2018
34
A
Blaze (2018)
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Posted Mar 21, 2018
35
B
Unsane (2018)
There's an intimacy to Soderbergh's camera that makes so many of the shots feel positively voyeuristic, a la The Conversation.
Posted Mar 20, 2018
36
A-
Isle of Dogs (2018)
37
B-
It succeeds as a minor work from Jody Hill, which if nothing else is still good for more than a few laughs.
Posted Mar 17, 2018
38
C-
PARADOX (2018)
It feels better-suited for playing on a reel-to-reel projector in someone's basement than at the biggest film venue of SXSW.
Posted Mar 16, 2018
39
B+
Love, Simon (2018)
Every kid out there can determine whether or not they need this film, but each of them absolutely deserves a confection this sweet, thoughtful, and sincere.
Posted Mar 16, 2018
40
B+
First Reformed (2018)
In First Reformed, depression arises from one's lack of impact, whether that be through inactivity or a lack of tangible results.
Posted Mar 15, 2018
41
B-
Tomb Raider (2018)
42
A-
Hereditary (2018)
Hereditary's horror functions on multiple levels. What we see is undoubtedly terrifying, but it's how we see it that truly distinguishes the film.
Posted Mar 12, 2018
43
C-
Ready Player One (2018)
At a certain point, though, Ready Player One wants to be appreciated as a film as well as a movie, no matter what Spielberg says. And that's where it begins to falter.
Posted Mar 12, 2018
44
B-
Blockers (2018)
Blockers, despite the star wattage of its adult characters, is much better suited for teens than adults.
Posted Mar 11, 2018
45
D+
The Outsider (2018)
The Outsider is Nick, and perhaps that's the film's most fatal flaw. We're never allowed near the guy, and Leto's not the type to draw you in or emote. He's too alien.
Posted Mar 11, 2018
46
A-
Eighth Grade (2018)
Burnham thankfully never loses sight of the belief that things truly can get better if you want them to.
Posted Mar 10, 2018
47
A Quiet Place (2018)
It's a crackerjack premise, if only because it fundamentally alters the fabric of the traditional horror template.
Posted Mar 10, 2018
48
B
Thoroughbreds (2018)
Thoroughbreds testifies to just how easily the auspices of its rich environment can curdle into deceit and cruelty.
Posted Mar 9, 2018
49
A
The Death of Stalin (2018)
The script feels like a great writers-room comedy, where only the leanest and meanest bits stay, and the most startling and intriguing ideas persist.
Posted Mar 8, 2018
50
C
Gringo (2018)