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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Destination Wedding (2018)
[Victor Levin] has made a very rare kind of film, one that not only doesn't spoon feed its viewers, but almost dares them to keep watching.
Posted Aug 30, 2018
2
Operation Finale (2018)
To say Mr. Kingsley's performance is more than Eichmann deserves, of course, is really not saying anything -- it's a sturdy film, albeit about a shaky subject.
Posted Aug 28, 2018
3
Support the Girls (2018)
The unlikely, bittersweet, bristling comedy Support the Girls is easily one of the best films of the year, and the most sympathetic to women.
Posted Aug 24, 2018
4
The Bookshop (2018)
As cleanly appointed and precise as Penelope Fitzgerald's prose, "The Bookshop," based on Fitzgerald's 1978 novel, seems very much a fable.
Posted Aug 23, 2018
5
Papillon (2018)
Mr. Hunnam plays Papillon with a certain fierceness and swagger, but his psyche is largely impenetrable.
Posted Aug 23, 2018
6
The Happytime Murders (2018)
"The Happytime Murders" can't be that outrageous-it's too late-but it has its moments, several of which are provided by Ms. Rudolph, putting a spin on the girl-friday role.
Posted Aug 23, 2018
7
We the Animals (2018)
Every once in a while a movie grabs you, unsuspecting, and hustles its way into your heart. Jeremiah Zagar's "We the Animals" does that.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
8
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
The result is hugely enjoyable, and hooray for Hollywood for making it happen.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
9
Minding the Gap (2018)
As such, it possesses an intimacy that could never be acquired without years of shared experience, and heartache. And probably road rash.
Posted Aug 17, 2018
10
11
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
It's a superb piece of acting about acting, and a harbinger of great things to come in this young actor's future.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
12
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
This freewheeling account of an African-American cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1970s is problematic as narrative drama, but stunning as provocation.
Posted Aug 10, 2018
13
Nico, 1988 (2018)
Yet the star of Susanna Nicchiarelli's freely fictionalized biopic, Trine Dyrholm, finds fierce beauty in the woman Nico has become.
Posted Aug 3, 2018
14
The Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has a quietly seductive way of finding the sublime in the mundane.
Posted Aug 3, 2018
15
Like Father (2018)
"Like Father" does what a lot of its comedic ancestors did, which is find humor on the perimeter of woeful circumstance.
Posted Aug 3, 2018
16
17
Plenty of pleasures apart from pure action turn up in the film, which, like the previous episode, "Rogue Nation," was written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
18
Puzzle (2018)
'Puzzle" is less puzzling than exasperating.
Posted Jul 26, 2018
19
Grey Gardens (2009)
20
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
What's notable about the broadness, though, is that it stays clear of grandiosity.
Posted Jul 20, 2018
21
Generation Wealth (2018)
It's all over the place, to the point of inducing numbness or suffocation.
Posted Jul 20, 2018
22
Ballet Now (2018)
Viewers elsewhere may find themselves standing up in their living rooms.
Posted Jul 20, 2018
23
Eighth Grade (2018)
Poignantly funny, wrenchingly wise and meltingly beautiful, "Eighth Grade" is a not-so-small miracle of independent filmmaking.
Posted Jul 12, 2018
24
Skyscraper (2018)
The movie is great, outlandish fun because the star makes it so; he's a soft soul in an action-hard body.
Posted Jul 12, 2018
25
26
Whitney (2018)
27
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
28
The Workers Cup (2018)
The result is a fascinating, and no doubt officially sanctioned, glimpse inside the enormous machinery that makes a World Cup happen.
Posted Jul 6, 2018
29
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Posted Jun 28, 2018
30
Leave No Trace (2018)
31
The King (2018)
32
Too Big to Fail (2011)
The ride is engrossing. And successful, in that it is bound to leave most viewers with a better grasp of the sequence of events that unfolded in 2008.
Posted Jun 25, 2018
33
Derren Brown: Miracle (2016)
34
The scattershot quality is crazy-making, but still entertaining if you keep your expectations in check.
Posted Jun 21, 2018
35
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Fans of Bob Dylan and others ambitious enough to sit through "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" will discover early on that it yields no revelatory light to speak of on its subject.
Posted Jun 14, 2018
36
Tag (2018)
For all its repetitiveness and frantic silliness-the impurity of its absurdity-"Tag" ends up being good fun, with an unexpectedly sweet spirit that stays with you.
Posted Jun 14, 2018
37
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Disney/Pixar's "Incredibles 2" is a great-looking sequel about the importance of family, and the potential for revenue.
Posted Jun 14, 2018
38
Recount (2008)
What's in it for viewers just looking for a good time? Since this is only a movie, with imagined dialogue and Hollywood stars, it must pass the entertainment test. Mostly, it does.
Posted Jun 13, 2018
39
Hereditary (2018)
Here's a haunted-houses movie for the ages.
Posted Jun 8, 2018
40
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
This beautiful film celebrates a deeply good man with a great gift for repairing.
Posted Jun 8, 2018
41
American Animals (2018)
42
A Kid Like Jake (2018)
But the well-made point is that gender assignments aren't always intelligently designed, at least not for a world built out of boxes that come only in pink or blue.
Posted May 31, 2018
43
Adrift (2018)
44
Mountain (2018)
"Mountain,"... reminds us that mountains "restore our wonder; more than ever we need their wildness."
Posted May 25, 2018
45
Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993) (2018)
Some creatures are able to grow new limbs. Frida, given more than half a chance after demanding it, achieves something no less remarkable. She grows new joy and hope.
Posted May 25, 2018
46
There are reasons that one might differ with his politics, but there's no disputing his accomplishments, or his moments of bravery...
Posted May 25, 2018
47
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
But the neutral news about "Solo" is exactly that, its dramatic neutrality. Time ticks by at a drifty pace while lots of action of no great consequence grinds on.
Posted May 23, 2018
48
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
49
Book Club (2018)
The special appeal is watching four stars who have given us immeasurable pleasure in the past and are at it again.
Posted May 17, 2018
50
Deadpool 2 (2018)
It's overstuffed, and essentially empty.
Posted May 17, 2018