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Title/Year
Author
1
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
This claustrophobic Portrait of a Lady is the kind of failure only a very gifted filmmaker could make: like it or not, it haunts you.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
2
Scream (1996)
3
Michael (1996)
4
Mother (1996)
In its deceptively modest way, this edgily sweet comedy gets closer to the bone of mother-son relationships than many a more solemn opus.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
5
Mars Attacks! (1996)
6
Silencio (2018)
With the stone, the zone and its powers kicked into the background, Silencio becomes a muddle of melodrama and thriller pretensions.
Posted Oct 26, 2018
7
Suspiria (2018)
Not just an arthouse exploration of a horror aesthetic, but a down-and-dirty body horror as visceral as anything in Cronenberg's output.
Posted Oct 25, 2018
8
Halloween (2018)
2018's Halloween isn't a deconstruction, but a slasher movie down to its knife-scraped bones.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
9
We are all more like characters in An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn than anyone is likely to admit.
Posted Oct 18, 2018
10
Apostle (2018)
Apostle gets too bound up in the island cult it's meant to be escaping.
Posted Oct 12, 2018
11
3/4
Jaws 2 (1978)
There was reason to believe that "Jaws 2" would be a mess. It isn't. It's better than most sequels. It's formula-ridden but slick, and the special effects work as intended.
Posted Sep 27, 2018
12
The Predator (2018)
Whatever its weaknesses, The Predator gets its titular aliens right, offering a sampler of violent, extraterrestrial skirmishing that works more often than it doesn't.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
13
Mandy (2018)
Every shot is composed with a directorial conviction heavy with hermetic knowledge and occult power.
Posted Sep 14, 2018
14
A deluge of technique ... which washes over the viewer in successive waves, alternately breathtaking, tiresome, breathtaking, repetitive.
Posted Sep 6, 2018
15
The Nun (2018)
Rather than grandiose and ponderous, The Nun is workaday, lunch pail gothic, getting the job done with the energy of a factory floor.
Posted Sep 5, 2018
16
Calling All Earthlings (2018)
It's all faintly ridiculous, but charming, like people talking about the afterlife right before last call.
Posted Aug 29, 2018
17
Support the Girls (2018)
Regina Hall so fully inhabits Lisa's life we hardly feel apart from her, tugged by the same frustrations, goodwill, minor satisfactions and disappointments.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
18
What Keeps You Alive (2018)
The dead center of the movie is a protracted rowboat chase no amount of thumping music can rescue. What Keeps You Alive barely picks up from there.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
19
The Littlest Reich is not just a clockwork puppet slasher, but a gleeful gore movie situated somewhere between Peter Jackson's Dead Alive and Troma.
Posted Aug 20, 2018
20
The Meg (2018)
The Meg is oddly charming, more pulp than cheese, like the sci-fi pumped out in the 1950s.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
21
Slender Man (2018)
Slender Man feels as used up as any years-old meme, like trying to explain what's funny about dat boi a decade late.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
22
Hereditary (2018)
Hereditary feels like an endless drawing out of that queasy, shocking, falling dream sensation, as the ground beneath the Graham family, and the viewer, crumbles.
Posted Aug 7, 2018
23
Damsel (2018)
Damsel spends its second half literally wandering in the woods, with no clear destination or objective in mind.
Posted Aug 7, 2018
24
Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
Despite characters whose individual plights would be just as boring to describe as they are to watch, Dark Web is just weird and ingenious enough to recommend.
Posted Aug 7, 2018
25
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is an unrelentingly consistent action movie, with not a single sequence wasted before the next big stunt.
Posted Aug 7, 2018
26
It captures the radical breadth of his rubber-faced, rapid-fire, man-child brand of comedy, which, at its heart, was compassionate and vulnerable.
Posted Jul 13, 2018
27
Veronica (Verónica) (2017)
There's nothing in it that will surprise horror movie aficionados.
Posted Jun 11, 2018
28
Ravenous (Les affamés) (2018)
29
Ghost Stories (2018)
Ghost Stories has more genuine scares than most horror movies, so it almost seems a bit unfair when it's funny too.
Posted May 23, 2018
30
The Titan (2018)
The body horror genre thrives on disgust, shame and goo, all qualities lacking in The Titan.
Posted May 23, 2018
31
The Devil and Father Amorth (2018)
The Devil and Father Amorth starts to feel slippery, as Friedkin uses the sliver offered by psychologists and neurologists as a pry bar to crack open space for the supernatural.
Posted May 23, 2018
32
Revenge (2018)
What happens next is expected-a roaring rampage of revenge, with each of the three hunters confronted like a video game boss-but Fargeat has some fun tricks to deploy.
Posted May 23, 2018
33
Cargo (2018)
Cargo doesn't often satisfy on the genre's more sensational vectors. There are no hordes, few gouts of creative gore and a limited sense of danger.
Posted May 23, 2018
34
Upgrade (2018)
By merging Deus Ex cyberpunk, third-person action games and the dirty old bones of 70s exploitation, Upgrade earns installation in your memory core.
Posted May 23, 2018
35
Outside In (2018)
Director Lynn Shelton brings a high empathic bar to Outside In, then dares the audience to clear it.
Posted Apr 5, 2018
36
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
37
Beetlejuice (1988)
For sheer off-the-wall audacity, Tim Burton's demented Beetlejuice certainly demands respect, even if it's more enjoyable in concept than in execution.
Posted Apr 5, 2018
38
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
39
Poseidon (2006)
The movie is just what you'd expect: skimpy, almost laughable characterizations surrounded by claustrophobically suspenseful action sequences.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
40
American Dreamz (2006)
Promising more bite than it delivers, Dreamz is pitched too broadly to get very deeply under your skin. Still, there are some smarts at work here, and it will make you laugh.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
41
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Akeelah obeys every sports-movie rule, but trading end-zone dances for etymology gives it a geeky innocence. What's the word? Splendiferous.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
42
The War Tapes (2006)
The unnerving documentary is all the more necessary, and all the more shocking, in its immediacy.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
43
The Heart of the Game (2005)
Will it be heartbreak or triumph for the Roosevelt Roughriders? You will care, passionately.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
44
A superb sociological and musicological essay, Crossing the Bridge opens door after door of musical revelation.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
45
46
Click (2006)
As a moral fable Click holds no surprises; as a Sandler comedy, it's unusually dark, occasionally touching and pretty funny.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
47
2046 (2005)
The ravishing images are tinged with regret and loss: no passion can assuage the jaded hero's solitude.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
48
49
Last Days (2005)
50
Broken Flowers (2005)