The New Republic
Tomatometer-approved publication
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Homelessness isn't Timothée Chalamet draped handsomely across a diner; it's contemptuous glances and shame.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
2
Ben is Back (2018)
The movie's real achievement lies in Roberts's performance, which is possibly her best. Holly is incandescent with worry. She's good and kind and intimate.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
3
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
[Mary Poppins] is incandescent.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
4
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
In Mary Queen of Scots, we don't see a reckoning with the future of a country united across the Scottish-English border. We see queens cry and fret about their hair.
Posted Dec 12, 2018
5
Never Look Away (2018)
6
Widows (2018)
It's the dashing camerawork and broad historical awareness of Widows that makes it a truly sophisticated action film, and by far the best crime movie of 2018 so far.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
7
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Something else guides Jenkins, generally and more acutely with Beale Street: He provides space for his character's flaws while never allowing those flaws to define them.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
8
The Favourite (2018)
9
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is one of the strangest and least legible of the Coen brothers' films, but it also revels in their sheer joy in creating movies.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
10
A Private War (2018)
11
Halloween (2018)
A brutal rumination on intergenerational pain, and the ways that male cruelty can make good women bad.
Posted Oct 31, 2018
12
Mandy (2018)
It's bloody, it's nasty, and it burns.
Posted Oct 15, 2018
13
22 July (2018)
14
A Star Is Born (2018)
It's the love story for our time. It's an instant cult classic. It's everything a tasteful move should not be, and yet it's an undeniable success.
Posted Oct 5, 2018
15
Free Solo (2018)
The classic tension between the sublime and the human spirit breaks down. Man, rock, camera: they're old suspects, but here they seem made anew.
Posted Sep 26, 2018
16
A Simple Favor (2018)
A deeply confused movie that feels like a mash-up of Mean Girls and an episode of Law and Order.
Posted Sep 24, 2018
17
The Wife (2018)
The Wife is that increasingly rare offering, a commercially viable film that also makes you rethink your assumptions about talent and who gets to wield it.
Posted Sep 10, 2018
18
Crime + Punishment (2018)
If the movie has a still point inside it-an unassailable conclusion-it's that justice and the law are not the same thing.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
19
Men, Women & Children (2014)
Men, Women, & Children curates the world of technology into a tiny sliver of only the most outlandishly evil elements, and pretends that perspective is reason for despair.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
20
Centineo performs a type of compassionate male energy that is in short supply in movies at the moment, but Lana Condor is undeniably TATBILB's star.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
21
22
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
23
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)
24
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Both Riley and Get Out's Jordan Peele have recreated our world but cracked through with a surreal seam that makes its hidden evils unmissable.
Posted Jun 29, 2018
25
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Just a dramatized synopsis in which some noble cynics guard our citadel. It is hardboiled-instead of admitting that the egg just exploded.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
26
27
Incredibles 2 (2018)
The Incredibles 2 is an undeniable triumph, but it is also so keenly aware that it becomes exhausting.
Posted Jun 19, 2018
28
Ocean's 8 (2018)
Although this movie is fun, the subtraction of rivalry makes for a movie that is inevitably less riveting.
Posted Jun 12, 2018
29
The Tale (2018)
The Tale excels in these absurdist meta-moments, such as the scenes in which Dern and Nélisse meet up across time to deconstruct events as they happen.
Posted Jun 1, 2018
30
Mary Shelley (2018)
Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley is the movie's only real grace. She has been given a poor script to inhabit.
Posted May 23, 2018
31
On Chesil Beach (2018)
32
Disobedience (2018)
[Rachel] McAdams feels like an uncanny piece of casting, at least to me, who grew up nearby, though secular, in North London.
Posted Apr 30, 2018
33
I Feel Pretty (2018)
In what should have been a major breakthrough for this comedian, I Feel Pretty instead becomes a good idea totally hamstrung, gutted, eviscerated by poor writing.
Posted Apr 20, 2018
34
I Am Evidence (2017)
35
A Quiet Place (2018)
This is a movie about the sound of fear, but it gives us a great deal more to listen to.
Posted Apr 11, 2018
36
Tomb Raider (2018)
I longed for [Daniel] Wu to return to the screen whenever he left it.
Posted Mar 20, 2018
37
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
But this movie relied so heavily on the glinting plastic toolbox of CGI that the magic just never arrived. The kid in me left the theater sadly disappointed.
Posted Mar 8, 2018
38
Red Sparrow (2018)
39
With the sensibility of a very boring Downton Abbey and a political consciousness to match, The Young Marx is an insipid disaster.
Posted Mar 2, 2018
40
Annihilation (2018)
Annihilation's commitment to older psychoanalytic (and deconstructionist) models for the self and its inexpressible shadows makes this a readily accessible drama of emotion.
Posted Feb 27, 2018
41
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
They're all handsome but just appalling actors. This disjuncture is impossible to forget while watching the film, and it's very uncomfortable.
Posted Feb 14, 2018
42
Black Panther (2018)
This is a movie whose political theory matches its stunning special effects.
Posted Feb 13, 2018
43
Golden Exits (2018)
44
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
45
The Ramparts We Watch (1940)
46
Volver (2006)
Volver disappoints.
Posted Feb 5, 2018
47
24 Frames (2018)
48
49
The Final Year (2018)
It isn't, like [Don DeLillo's] novels, paranoid or funny or, despite its tragic surprise ending, full of dread. It is, like Obama himself, optimistic about the state of the world.
Posted Jan 18, 2018
50
Carrington (1995)