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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
It's all very charming and funny without being unduly sentimental.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
2
1.5/4
Mortal Engines (2018)
Fortunately, all of it is brilliantly and efficiently explained in an interesting and compelling way. Just kidding.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
3
3.5/4
Ben is Back (2018)
It's an interesting twist on the usual addiction drama - it's not the downfall, it's will he stay clean? - and it works. If you're not invested, you're not watching.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
4
3/4
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Blunt is charmingly crisp and superior. Her winning performance makes this new nanny a keeper.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
5
3/4
Blaze (2018)
Hawke is more fascinated with passion than profile. And here, that's more than enough.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
6
2/4
The Mule (2018)
There's an interesting movie, or five movies, stashed away somewhere in The Mule. Good luck to those hoping to sniff it out.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
7
2/4
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
A dramatic but unreliable account of Mary's tenuous rule over Scotland and deadly rivalry with Elizabeth I of England.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
8
3.5/4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse might be the best Spider-Man film ever made.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
9
3.5/4
The Quake (Skjelvet) (2018)
The Quake isn't your standard catastrophe drama, even if it does leave viewers shaking in their boots.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
10
1/4
Love Jacked (2018)
The only thing jacked here is the hour and a half wasted watching this film.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
11
2/4
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
12
3/4
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
Show tunes meet Shaun of the Dead in the delightfully gruesome Scottish horror-musical Anna and the Apocalypse.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
13
2/4
The Go-Getters (2018)
Abrams and Piri have scant on-screen charisma. And, even if they did, their dialogue together is nothing more than foul-mouthed insults - unimaginative ones at that.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
14
3/4
It's naive to blame the current cancerous state of American politics on a single carcinogen, but don't let that stop you from pointing fingers at Roger Ailes.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
15
1.5/4
The House That Jack Built (2018)
16
3/4
The Favourite (2018)
It is Colman who steals the film from everyone - Lanthimos included.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
17
2.5/4
Henchmen (2016)
Zippy (if slightly confusing)...
Posted Dec 7, 2018
18
The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
A Christmas children's special that actually depicts events from the Bible? What a concept!
Posted Dec 4, 2018
19
2/4
Tiger (2018)
Any sports film, no matter its scale or handicap, has to land its narrative and aesthetic punches - and Tiger clings to the ropes more often than not.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
20
2/4
Clara (2018)
The well-acted Clara lacks clarity, and there's nothing worse than an out-of-focus telescope.
Posted Nov 30, 2018
21
3.5/4
22
Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018)
This film deserves as wide an audience as possible.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
23
Truly terrible.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
24
Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia (2018)
25
3/4
An Eastern European version of The Graduate - if The Graduate were dour, without sex and three hours long.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
26
It's still shocking, in its sheer volume and detail.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
27
The Drawer Boy (2017)
While it never entirely shakes off its staginess - particularly in a climax in the kitchen - The Drawer Boy has performances to savour, especially a heartbreaking one by Hughes.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
28
The Price of Everything (2018)
Kahn has certainly exposed the horrors of the art market here - I wouldn't buy a used car from the smug Cappellazzo - but he gives art itself pretty short shrift.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
29
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
30
Border (Gräns) (2018)
Don't read another word about it: just go.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
31
Robin Hood (2018)
Hey ... it's almost as if they're stealing our money and selling it right back to us by way of another thoughtless capitalistic Robin Hood remount.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
32
3/4
Creed II (2018)
The whole thing just ... works.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
33
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Ralph Breaks the Internet is less a film, more a commercial. Game over, everyone.
Posted Nov 25, 2018
34
Instant Family (2018)
Instant Family has its heart in the right place within a genre that has set the bar low.
Posted Nov 18, 2018
35
Green Book (2018)
It's not quite Racism for Dummies, but the strokes are so broad and the tone so breezy that "I saw Green Book" could qualify as the new "I have a black friend."
Posted Nov 18, 2018
36
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is the perfect Coen Brothers' movie, albeit sliced and diced.
Posted Nov 18, 2018
37
About as exciting as a trip to Hogwarts's most neglected lavatory.
Posted Nov 18, 2018
38
A Private War (2018)
It's a powerful but clear-eyed acknowledgment of the importance of journalism.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
39
Dolphin Man (2017)
Listen, it's been a rough week (or month, or year, or generation), so I think we all deserve to watch a movie about a man who helps a baby otter swim.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
40
In Search of Greatness (2018)
41
The Grinch (2018)
42
1.5/4
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The lowest-rent iteration yet of Lisbeth and her never-merry band of Swedish friends and enemies.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
43
2.5/4
Overlord (2018)
By the end, Overlord feels, if not greater than the sum of its Frankensteined parts, at least a monster worth mashing.
Posted Nov 9, 2018
44
The end result is an extremely important 75-minute education, but a lesson that is probably best for the classroom than the theatre.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
45
Science Fair (2018)
Science Fair may not necessitate a big-screen experience, but there are far lesser ways to spend your study break.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
46
There's potential here for a distinctly female examination of leadership, power and war. If only it were further explored.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
47
2.5/4
Suspiria (2018)
The filmmakers' insatiable curiosity and grandiose sense of spectacle keeps Suspiria from becoming half as annoying as it should be.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
48
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Freddie Mercury deserves better.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
49
What They Had (2018)
50
3/4
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)