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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
0/4
Second Act (2018)
Second Act has nothing to recommend it, even as a temporary refuge from traffic gridlock.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
2
3/4
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
The movie is full of joyous, unexpected things to applaud...
Posted Dec 19, 2018
3
3/4
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
If Beale Street Could Talk is better than Moonlight, but that is faint praise indeed.
Posted Dec 17, 2018
4
3/4
The Mule (2018)
There's nothing heroic about Earl, but in Eastwood's 38th film as a director, he makes the character a felonious centerpiece as likable as anyone could ever imagine.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
5
1/4
Bird Box (2018)
The only real shock in this one is that it stars Sandra Bullock, who should know better.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
6
2/4
Swimming with Men (2018)
There is nothing remarkable or consequential about it, but it's not a waste of time, either.
Posted Dec 10, 2018
7
3/4
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
The movie has numerous faults (especially with a number of literary liberties) but is consistently polished enough to keep history buffs fascinated.
Posted Dec 10, 2018
8
4/4
Ben is Back (2018)
9
1/4
Head Full of Honey (2018)
Exaggerated, infuriating, and about as funny as a root canal without anesthesia.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
10
2/4
The Mercy (2018)
It all seems doomed from the start-and never in the same throat-gripping class with such fateful horrors-at-sea epics as Adrift or Robert Redford's All is Lost.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
11
3.5/4
The greatest triumph and biggest surprise of the film is that it is an LSD freak-out on par with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
12
Widows (2018)
It offers everything adults used to love about cinema.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
13
Roma (2018)
It's clear how much Cuarón, who also wrote the script, cares for these people, and his passion and empathy immediately become infectious.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
14
Creed II (2018)
It is a solid movie that further cements Jordan as a star, and that's mostly because of how he portrays Donnie's personal development.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
15
3/4
The Favourite (2018)
16
3/4
The World Before Your Feet (2018)
New York, New York, it's a wonderful town. This movie proves it like none other.
Posted Nov 20, 2018
17
4/4
Green Book (2018)
Witty and warm as cashmere, Green Book is a two-hander in which both stars soar with humor and heart.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
18
2/4
Widows (2018)
19
2.5/4
Instant Family (2018)
Add up the ingredients and you get a mostly enjoyable dog-eared formula for escapist entertainment without critical perception.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
20
2/4
The world Rowling dreamt up during the Tony Blair era is getting no richer after this installment, but its creator and various producers certainly will be.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
21
2.5/4
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Ralph Breaks the Internet is a candy coated, hard shined brick of postmodernism-a Vitamix smoothie of gags, nostalgia, product placement and Fruity Pebbles.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
22
4/4
The Front Runner (2018)
23
1/4
Postcards From London (2018)
Aside from bad filmmaking, I don't know what any of this means.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
24
2/4
Here and Now (Blue Night) (2018)
25
1/4
Weightless (2018)
26
3.5/4
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The most unique and uniquely gratifying action film this year.
Posted Nov 7, 2018
27
4/4
Boy Erased (2018)
28
3/4
A Private War (2018)
This is a movie worth seeing-a noble effort to polish the image of a superior journalist hell-bent on bringing the truth to the world.
Posted Nov 1, 2018
29
3/4
Wildlife (2018)
30
1/4
Don't Go (2018)
Ennui sets in early in Don't Go, making you wish it would.
Posted Oct 27, 2018
31
3/4
Viper Club (2018)
The film eschews a Hollywood happy ending in favor of bone-chilling reality, which makes Viper Club doubly relevant amid current headlines.
Posted Oct 27, 2018
32
1/4
Suspiria (2018)
33
2/4
Halloween (2018)
What once seemed creepy now just seems campy. I'm sorry to report that in the 2018 Halloween, the howls sound more like giggles than screams.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
34
4/4
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
35
2/4
22 July (2018)
It gives this evil man the spotlight and platform he so clearly craves. And as much as Greengrass is aware of this conundrum, he never quite figures out a solution.
Posted Oct 13, 2018
36
3/4
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Heartbreaking, honest and profoundly truthful, even if flawed by a handful of unfortunate cliches.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
37
1/4
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Depraved, self-indulgent trash that is a narrative mess and, at nearly two-and-a-half hours in length, seems to go on forever.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
38
3/4
First Man (2018)
39
0/4
I Still See You (2018)
Kids with little experience and no discernible talent keep turning out bombs with alarming frequency. Add a dreary, post-apocalyptic mishap called I Still See You to the list.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
40
2/4
Trouble (2018)
Movies that have no reason to exist seem to be opening on a weekly basis. On its way to home video, Trouble, I'm sorry to say, is one of them.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
41
3/4
Studio 54 (2018)
Juicy fodder for the "in" crowd that lived through it, as well as the outsiders who heard about it but couldn't get in.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
42
3/4
The Hate U Give (2018)
43
3.5/4
Private Life (2018)
The film gets a lot of mileage out of the quotidian parts of New York City life, from the Wild Nova at Russ and Daughters to opposite side of the street parking.
Posted Oct 8, 2018
44
3.5/4
Roma (2018)
I was hypnotized and drawn in by the skill and heart of everyone involved.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
45
3/4
A Star Is Born (2018)
The high-voltage ghost of Judy Garland haunts every frame and illuminates every shadow in the film, and Lady Gaga seems to know it.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
46
Queen of the World (2018)
The hour-long film does offer moments of amusing haughtiness and humanizing voyeurism.
Posted Oct 2, 2018
47
1/4
All About Nina (2018)
Despite a lively performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Nina is a big bore with a small talent and a one-track mind.
Posted Sep 30, 2018
48
1/4
High Life (2018)
Baffling, non-linear to the point of near-schizophrenia, and despite all of the computer technology, sadly resistant to any kind of production design you could call innovative.
Posted Sep 28, 2018
49
4/4
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Warm and funny and mesmerizing in its understated perfection, The Old Man & the Gun is a splendid experience.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
50
1/4
Smallfoot (2018)
Hollywood animation, your rut is showing.
Posted Sep 27, 2018