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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/5
Vox Lux (2018)
If you'll pardon another pop-writing cliché, there are plenty of killer singles here but not a full-length album.
Posted Dec 22, 2018
2
2/5
Destroyer (2018)
3
4/5
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
4
4/5
Stan & Ollie (2018)
It's a love song played in a minor key, and it leaves an unexpectedly lingering impression.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
5
2/5
Second Act (2018)
If only the world saw street smarts as equal to book smarts, Maya wishes on her birthday. It's a nice idea, but Second Act doesn't possess smarts in either category.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
6
4/5
Vice (2018)
7
4/5
Capernaum (Capharnaüm) (2018)
This contrast results in bursts of humor, recalling the likes of Slumdog Millionaire and The Florida Project. But Capernaum is a darker watch than either.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
8
2/5
The Mule (2018)
Tonally, this thing is a disaster, and you can only conclude that its maker, capable of sharp ironies as recently as 2014's American Sniper, didn't fully digest the material.
Posted Dec 14, 2018
9
3/5
Long and slow, this melancholy Chinese drama offers a bleak but poignant view of life on China's margins.
Posted Dec 12, 2018
10
4/5
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
11
3/5
Aquaman (2018)
Jason Momoa's surf-bro superhero is a welcome addition to a ponderous genre, but his movie as a whole is waterlogged.
Posted Dec 11, 2018
12
Sharky's Machine (1981)
Unfortunately, Reynolds the director is as uncertain about the tone of the picture as Reynolds the star is about his screen persona
Posted Dec 10, 2018
13
4/5
By the time it's chucked a Spider-pig (yes, really), Banksy jokes and buckets of Day-glo-bathed spectacle at you, resistance will be futile.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
14
2/5
Mortal Engines (2018)
Like the Hobbit movies, Mortal Engines is a relentless assault of CGI and earsplitting noise.
Posted Dec 7, 2018
15
4/5
Green Book (2018)
16
4/5
Free Solo (2018)
Free Solo is about getting dangerously close to the edge, where some people feel most alive. We get to experience that thrill secondhand, and that's enough.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
17
3/5
The Man from Mo'Wax (2018)
A warts-and-all tales of hubris and heavyweight beats.
Posted Dec 6, 2018
18
4/5
The Craft (1996)
... deliciously dangerous excursions into adolescent self-discovery.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
19
Renaissance Man (1994)
In essence, a painfully earnest sit-com.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
20
Taps (1981)
A fascinating first hour is drowned in the clichés of siege cinema.
Posted Dec 3, 2018
21
4/5
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
22
This classic tale is still beloved today, as its feel-good story about the most famous reindeer of all wins every kid (and, fine, adult) over.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
23
4/5
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
It's not every animation that features an eBay-spoofing riff involving a corn chip shaped like Beyoncé.
Posted Nov 23, 2018
24
4/5
Creed II (2018)
If the results aren't as artful as those by Creed director Ryan Coogler (Steven Caple Jr. steps in), they still feel earned.
Posted Nov 21, 2018
25
3/5
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
...visually dull and intriguing in only the most generic sense, but still a showcase for the twin talents of Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie.
Posted Nov 21, 2018
26
2/5
Robin Hood (2018)
Several dueling shades of dull, this umpteenth retooling of the outlaw legend is desperate to convince viewers that Christopher Nolan had something to do with it (he didn't).
Posted Nov 21, 2018
27
Judith (1966)
Terminally dreary as well as totally unbelievable.
Posted Nov 19, 2018
28
3/5
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
29
2/5
Instant Family (2018)
30
31
The American Meme (2018)
Suffused with vapidity, the doc somehow finds its way to an unexpected sadness and maybe something deeper and cautionary.
Posted Nov 16, 2018
32
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
33
2/5
It'll be dead in a week - and you'll want your money back.
Posted Nov 12, 2018
34
4/5
The Price of Everything (2018)
An intelligent film, 'The Price of Everything' is also very funny - usually on purpose, though some of the art is ridiculous.
Posted Nov 12, 2018
35
3/5
Only the band's confetti-strewn stadium gigs, seemingly choreographed by a drunk Italian wedding planner, are as irrepressible as Chris Martin.
Posted Nov 12, 2018
36
3/5
The Front Runner (2018)
37
Dead Man (1995)
[It's a] bizarre, funny, almost mystical take on the Western
Posted Nov 8, 2018
38
4/5
Overlord (2018)
Don't be fooled by its B-movie trappings: Amid all the carnage, Overlord has more to say than you might think.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
39
2/5
Outlaw King (2018)
The battles are brutal, the bludgeoning horrid, yet Outlaw King is frustratingly muted. It's authentic but rarely dynamic.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
40
3/5
The Grinch (2018)
41
3/5
With its callbacks to the Potter universe and a lovely eye for detail, The Crimes of Grindelwald has bags of intermittent charm and a warm familiarity.
Posted Nov 8, 2018
42
Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
43
4/5
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Barry Jenkins channels all of James Baldwin's lyricism and anger into a story of love and injustice that burns with a gentle flame, occasionally blazing into a white heat.
Posted Nov 7, 2018
44
2/5
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009)
45
2/5
Deception (2008)
The success of thrillers like this one depends heavily on skillfully handled smoke and mirrors, but Deception's predictable plot turns won't really deceive anyone.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
46
4/5
Bodied (2018)
Bodied is a deliriously rude provocation, maybe the most daring race-related movie since Spike Lee's Bamboozled.
Posted Nov 4, 2018
47
2/5
Perversely, a family film this is not: The Mouse King -- actually a writhing body of mice all working together as one moving mass -- is the stuff of children's nightmares.
Posted Nov 3, 2018
48
4/5
Possum (2018)
Holness firmly captures the feel of '70s British horror -- the oppressively close atmosphere is so powerful, you can almost smell the damp.
Posted Nov 2, 2018
49
4/5
A Private War (2018)
50
2/5
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)