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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
1/4
Peppermint (2018)
2
2.5/4
The Captain (Der Hauptmann) (2018)
Though he belabors the obvious and sensationalizes the carnage and sadism, Schwentke is dealing with some relevant issues.
Posted Sep 6, 2018
3
Older Than Ireland (2016)
4
3/4
The Little Stranger (2018)
With its closely observed sympathy for thwarted lives, it could be a Terence Davies movie. And with all that, it's a ghost story, too, but of a very special sort.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
5
3/4
Juliet, Naked (2018)
6
2.5/4
Kin (2018)
Truitt's quiet wariness is the finest thing in a movie full of good acting.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
7
1.5/4
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2018)
Time and again, Mott's arrogance crushes the play.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
8
2.5/4
The Wife (2018)
What unites the film's two halves - what makes it worth watching, period - is the road Close's Joan travels as she decides whether to reclaim authorship of her own life.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
9
3/4
Operation Finale (2018)
A respectful chronicle of retribution, one that's suspenseful while resisting sensationalism.
Posted Aug 28, 2018
10
3.5/4
Support the Girls (2018)
11
2.5/4
The Happytime Murders (2018)
12
3/4
Mile 22 (2018)
Berg and Wahlberg deliver a relentlessly paced, addictively slick paramilitary thriller actively catering to fans of gonzo brutality and turbocharged machismo.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
13
2.5/4
Hearing about all this TLC will make watching TCM a very different experience.
Posted Aug 16, 2018
14
2.5/4
Alpha (2018)
15
2.5/4
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
For a while, "Crazy Rich Asians" has the airborne, happy preposterousness of a good screwball comedy. Those first 60 minutes or so are a treat: lighthearted, sure-handed, zippy.
Posted Aug 16, 2018
16
3.5/4
Skate Kitchen (2018)
The entire movie hangs like a varial kickflip on the strength its star. Vinberg is quiet, subdued, and affected when the situation demands.
Posted Aug 15, 2018
17
3/4
Nico, 1988 (2018)
"Nico, 1988" is worth a look... for its portrait of a spirit absolutely unyielding, who expected the worst from life and found cold, beautiful comfort when she got it.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
18
3/4
"The Miseducation of Cameron Post" is a scrapbook made by the people who were there.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
19
2.5/4
Puzzle (2018)
The indie drama's aptly metaphorical goings-on have real warmth, and get an added boost from charming performances by Macdonald and Irrfan Khan...
Posted Aug 9, 2018
20
3.5/4
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
One of the director's strongest yet most entertaining works in years.
Posted Aug 9, 2018
21
Reunification (2015)
A layered documentary that is as much an inquiry into the nature of time and memory as it is an individual's diary.
Posted Aug 8, 2018
22
3/4
Christopher Robin (2018)
What's so satisfying about these telegraphed messages is the earnest, old-fashioned charm that McGregor and longtime Pooh voice actor Jim Cummings bring to them.
Posted Aug 2, 2018
23
3/4
Far From the Tree (2018)
At its most radical and empathetic, "Far From the Tree" urges us to start thinking of disability in terms of identity, not as a locus of struggle but a place of being.
Posted Aug 2, 2018
24
2.5/4
McQueen (2018)
If you have any intention of seeing "McQueen" make sure you see it in a theater for full effect.
Posted Aug 2, 2018
25
2/4
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
A forced McKinnon is a diminished McKinnon. She's able to put together a caricature, but never a character.
Posted Aug 2, 2018
26
3/4
Blindspotting (2018)
See the movie, for its urgency, for its performances, and for the vibrant portrait of a community being erased in the names of progress and profit.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
27
3/4
Dark Money (2018)
Engrossing, lucid, and unsettling...
Posted Jul 26, 2018
28
3/4
Custody (Jusqu'Ã la garde) (2018)
Legrand in his feature debut shows laudable technical ability and discipline.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
29
3/4
At its best, an exercise in pure action-movie propulsion and an essay in how to get from Point A to Point B in the most ingenious and exhausting way imaginable.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
30
Grey Gardens (2009)
Lange is flat-out extraordinary as she reveals the extent of Big Edie's big narcissism without demonizing her.
Posted Jul 24, 2018
31
3/4
The Green Fog (2018)
Eerie, witty, and unexpectedly moving.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
32
2.5/4
Love, Cecil (2018)
33
3/4
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
I wish I could tell you that "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" is ridiculous and I hated it, but the fact is that it's ridiculous and I loved every minute.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
34
2.5/4
There's a truth to life in that shagginess, let alone a life as unusual as Callahan's. But it does make it hard for "Don't Worry" to hang together.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
35
3.5/4
Eighth Grade (2018)
Burnham's filmmaking is unfussy yet thought through, so Fisher's seemingly artless performance is actually a pretty brilliant piece of acting.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
36
2/4
Equalizer 2 (2018)
A narratively and visually muddled disappointment, one that regularly confuses numbing brutality with vicariously thrilling righteous vengeance.
Posted Jul 19, 2018
37
2/4
Skyscraper (2018)
As a streaming option on a slow night or a long flight, the movie has its uses. But you've seen almost all of this before, with more wit and a better villain.
Posted Jul 13, 2018
38
39
3/4
The King (2018)
At its best, "The King" is a fever dream of American glory and American weirdness - between which there can be an even thinner line than the one separating love from hate.
Posted Jul 12, 2018
40
4/4
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
41
3.5/4
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
42
4/4
Zama (2018)
Some movies unfold as dreams; "Zama" dances us playfully toward the edge of nightmare and then asks us to open our eyes.
Posted Jul 5, 2018
43
3/4
Whitney (2018)
Far-reaching interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues cover a winding - and, by now, somewhat familiar - terrain of personal scandals and family secrets.
Posted Jul 5, 2018
44
3.5/4
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
"Ant-Man and the Wasp" is disposable pop trash, not worth taking seriously for a moment and therefore eminently worthy of your attention at this moment.
Posted Jul 5, 2018
45
2/4
Boundaries (2018)
The film... crosses a line - between engaging idiosyncrasy and floundering improbability, amusing and cringeworthy.
Posted Jul 5, 2018
46
Gallipoli (1981)
Gallipoli is a predictable war movie filled with all the gung-ho cliches of the genre -- and I loved it.
Posted Jun 28, 2018
47
2.5/4
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
{Soldado] dithers away into subplots, including one that is ludicrously contrived and seems designed to continue the franchise.
Posted Jun 28, 2018
48
2/4
Damsel (2018)
The frontier as a symbol not of manifest destiny but of man's idiocy? There's an interesting movie in that. "Damsel" gets about halfway there.
Posted Jun 28, 2018
49
3.5/4
Leave No Trace (2018)
The movie shines a gentle but insistent light on America's underclass and walking wounded, the people in the cracks just getting by.
Posted Jun 28, 2018
50
2/4
Uncle Drew (2018)