New York Magazine/Vulture
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Suspiria (2018)
2
Mid90s (2018)
Mid90s doesn't entirely work, but it shows some promise, and even some guts.
Posted Oct 19, 2018
3
Beautiful Boy (2018)
A test of an actor is playing someone who's split in so many ways that he moves forward while looking backwards and vice versa, and Chalamet is already a master.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
4
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
What is on paper a small-time heist film in the vein of the Coen Brothers or Breaking Bad is ultimately a cover for a more observant and relatable portrait of loneliness.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
5
Halloween (2018)
After a purposefully slow start, the movie builds and becomes relentless. Maybe you can't go home again, but in the age of fanboy auteurs, you can go back to Haddonfield.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
6
The Signal (2008)
The schlock-horror signal in which they've been bathed makes them believe that their grindhouse misogyny is the human condition.
Posted Oct 17, 2018
7
Galveston (2018)
There are some late, minor twists in Galveston that suggest the movie has more on its mind than it lets on - but they ultimately don't amount to much.
Posted Oct 16, 2018
8
The Oath (2018)
The Oath lands in an unpleasant middle ground that is too close to reality to feel like escapism, and too antic to feel equipped at anything like incisiveness.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
9
Apostle (2018)
Apostle is ultimately an absorbing, horrifying movie that's maybe not as smart as it wants to be. But it is a lot stranger, and more disturbing, than you might expect.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
10
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Bad Times at the El Royale isn't an event. But I was never too bored.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
11
It replicates the template and the atmosphere of the original, but it lacks invention and emotional investment.
Posted Oct 11, 2018
12
22 July (2018)
13
Venom (2018)
14
The Hate U Give (2018)
If this is what the next wave of YA adaptation will feel like, we are in a good place.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
15
Her Smell (2018)
16
Venom (2018)
The film contains a vast wealth of laughs that emanate from a kind of action-comedy slapstick I sincerely didn't know Tom Hardy had in him.
Posted Oct 3, 2018
17
Night School (2018)
18
Assassination Nation (2018)
Watching Assassination Nation's arch portrait of today's currents and countercurrents, one senses just how utterly irreconcilable our many differences are.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
19
Monsters and Men (2018)
Monsters and Men is a rather straightforward ripped-from-the-headlines story. But it's aided by a narrative structure that highlights complexity, rather than tidy symmetry.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
20
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
It's a shame that the film tries to pack a life of overflowing abundance into a series of boxes that don't quite suit the contents they're designed to hold.
Posted Sep 24, 2018
21
Nappily Ever After (2018)
22
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Sisters Brothers retreats back from some interesting, adventurous territory to something all too familiar.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
23
Life Itself (2018)
The less said about Life Itself -- a truly zany multi-timeline melodrama from the creator of that NBC show that makes everyone cry -- the better.
Posted Sep 20, 2018
24
25
The Land of Steady Habits (2018)
A great actor when his motor is running fast, Mendelsohn is surprisingly attractive at slower speeds and better when Holofcener makes him twist.
Posted Sep 18, 2018
26
70th Emmy Awards (2018)
27
White Boy Rick (2018)
There's something strangely uninvolving about White Boy Rick, despite all its claims to be a sensational true story.
Posted Sep 17, 2018
28
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Jenkins has cemented his style: lush romance on top, hyper-realistic despair just beneath the surface.
Posted Sep 15, 2018
29
The Predator (2018)
Yet another reminder that the strange alchemy of the progenitor probably can't be replicated. Hawkins is spinning in his jungle grave.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
30
A Simple Favor (2018)
A Simple Favor seems to yearn for a bygone era of nail-biter, but rather than wallow in pastiche, it comes up with something truly contemporary feeling.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
31
The Children Act (2018)
No one gives better pensive gaze here than Thompson; the drama lies in the fallibility of even the most competent and well-intentioned among us.
Posted Sep 13, 2018
32
A Star Is Born (2018)
Lady Gaga triumphs as a young woman averse to artifice and fame-hounding. The movie is a hell of a magic act.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
33
Widows (2018)
It's a stark, violent, cynical but thoroughly entertaining caper picture.
Posted Sep 12, 2018
34
First Man (2018)
The moon was hard-earned and so was this movie. It's a stupendous feat.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
35
Tower (2016)
The sheer beauty of the images gives Tower a surreal quality and drenches it in emotion.
Posted Sep 11, 2018
36
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
This isn't his smoothest film, but it's his fullest and most original. It's also his most urgent, which is really saying something.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
37
Peppermint (2018)
There was a time when a woman being the star of her own bad action franchise could have been considered the apex of progress, but that time is past.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
38
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018)
From the script to the music to the unfinished-feeling sound edit... nothing about Sierra Burgess feels like it got past a first draft.
Posted Sep 7, 2018
39
Peterloo (2018)
Those with the patience and attention span are rewarded; the last 30 minutes is perhaps the most visceral filmmaking Leigh has ever pulled off...
Posted Sep 2, 2018
40
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Once it's time to switch tones, the Coens don't seem to have much to say other than pointing to the well-documented fact that the American frontier was a violent place.
Posted Sep 2, 2018
41
A Star Is Born (2018)
What keeps the film from feeling like a mere rehash is the gut-level romanticism of it all.
Posted Sep 2, 2018
42
Suspiria (2018)
43
Operation Finale (2018)
The pacing is off from the first scenes, thick with exposition but skimpy on clarity.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
44
Roma (2018)
Cuarón never seeks a tidy resolution for their loving, lopsided, complicated relationship. But it's one of the reasons why Roma leaves such a deep and lasting impression.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
45
Destination Wedding (2018)
Levin's dialogue is relentless. Every line and retort is a punch line, and every punch line more or less amounts to Lindsey and Frank telling each other how much they stink.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
46
The Happytime Murders (2018)
Comedies this broad come down to percentage games and (in what has become a ritual for me, alas), I estimate less than 10 percent of screenwriter Todd Berger's jokes land.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
47
Minding the Gap (2018)
48
Blaze (2018)
Hawke obviously loves hanging out with Dickey's Foley, adjusting to his rhythms, suggesting through his pacing that he never wants to leave this milieu.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
49
The Wife (2018)
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Posted Aug 16, 2018
50