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Rating Title/Year Author
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970) Vincent Canby Its camera swings and there is a lot of rock music on the soundtrack. However, like so many other places of expensive, modish, retail merchandise, it remains calculatingly bland. EDIT
Posted Sep 6, 2019
Numbered Men (1930) Mordaunt Hall Numbered Men is a strange affair with odd lots of dialogue and prison scenes that call to mind a club of the free. EDIT
Posted Sep 6, 2019
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (2019) Manohla Dargis Engel gives "Raise Hell" such momentum - it's a whoosh of a movie - that you are quickly swept up in its sights and sounds. There's a lot to take in. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Satanic Panic (2019) Teo Bugbee The movie stands out from contemporary horror for its lack of pretension and its simple commitment to inventing ways for pretty people to get slaughtered. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Jinn (2018) Aisha Harris Mu'min, who based "Jinn" in part on her own upbringing, approaches her protagonist's journey of self-discovery with a delicate sense of wonder and a striking lack of moral judgment. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2017) Glenn Kenny The movie is at its most engaging when examining the near-monopolies controlling chicken farmers in the United States. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Strange but True (2019) Glenn Kenny The tale is a jolting one, and the superb players do justice to the emotional distress of its characters. But a surer directorial hand might have yielded a more resonant experience. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Nomis (2018) Jeannette Catsoulis Mysteries abound in David Raymond's "Night Hunter," perhaps none so pressing as how Stanley Tucci and Ben Kingsley were prevailed upon to join its flailing cast. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Edie (2017) Jeannette Catsoulis Hancock is wasted here, as are the meaty dramatic threads that Elizabeth O'Halloran's formulaic screenplay never bothers to pull. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Blink of an Eye (2019) Glenn Kenny Taublieb's approach is straightforward, but also a little pedestrian. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel (2018) Ben Kenigsberg It roots, roots, roots for its home team - and does little more. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Promise at Dawn (2017) Ben Kenigsberg The movie looks and sounds great, but greatness and depth elude it. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) A.O. Scott She shows herself to be one of its indispensable interpreters, as a vocalist and also as a thinker - covering a sprawling landscape with elegance, passion and insight. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
Ága (2018) Manohla Dargis [The final stretch] shifts this textbook exercise in art cinema... into kitsch. EDIT
Posted Sep 3, 2019
It: Chapter Two (2019) A.O. Scott This 2-hour-49-minute movie drags more than it jumps, wearing out its premise and possibly also your patience as it lumbers toward the final showdown. EDIT
Posted Sep 3, 2019
Untouchable (2019) Helen T. Verongos A respectable and all-too-real introduction to a chilling chapter of a Hollywood horror story. EDIT
Posted Sep 2, 2019
Saaho (2019) Rachel Saltz The movie is crisply, sometimes stylishly shot, but it's too muddled to be slick and too lacking in charm to establish any emotional stakes. EDIT
Posted Sep 1, 2019
Don't Let Go (2019) Manohla Dargis [Estes] has a fine cast and a good sense of place, including a feel for the spookiness of emptied-out spaces, and he makes his conspicuously low budget work for the near-claustrophobic intimacy. More important, he has Oyelowo. EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
Falling Inn Love (2019) Helen T. Verongos "Falling Inn Love" keeps its promise warmly, but without the least pretense of sophistication. EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
The Load (2018) Glenn Kenny [An] atmospheric, gripping film... EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
Before You Know It (2019) Glenn Kenny Seekers of Manhattan stories that don't occur in skyscrapers and corridors of power could do worse. EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
Ne Zha (2019) Ben Kenigsberg A computer-animated feature of bright hues, hectic action and only occasional charm... EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
Killerman (2019) Jeannette Catsoulis Thanks to Bader's clever plotting and fruity dialogue - as well as strong supporting players - this grimy picture climaxes more satisfyingly than expected. EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
Angel of Mine (2019) Jeannette Catsoulis Wearily predictable and consistently doleful... EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
The Fanatic (2019) Glenn Kenny As it lumbers to its climax, the movie delineates the border that separates the merely stale from the genuinely rancid. EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
Official Secrets (2019) Manohla Dargis The characters are malnourished and Hood's attempts to build suspense often fall flat because he leans hard on genre conventions, on dark shadows, ominous music and abrupt sounds straight from a horror flick. EDIT
Posted Aug 29, 2019
The Miracle of the Little Prince (2018) Ben Kenigsberg "The Miracle of the Little Prince" seems to have been made from the supposition that too many discussions of grammar or syntax might bore viewers. Even so, the platitudes are worse. EDIT
Posted Aug 27, 2019
The Banana Splits Movie (2019) Ben Kenigsberg Far less crazy than it wants to be and far more soporific than a synopsis would suggest. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Jawline (2019) Ben Kenigsberg No movie this year has made a more powerful argument for unplugging than "Jawline," a disturbing, darkly hilarious documentary on live-broadcasting influencers. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Hot Air (2018) Bilge Ebiri Coogan gets some big scenes, but anyone familiar with what this actor is capable of may wonder why he was cast in the first place. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
No Place Like Home (2006) Glenn Kenny The picture abounds with amazing landscapes and trenchant but quietly articulated commentaries on tourism and Jamaica's other economies, or lack thereof, in this era. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Genèse (2018) Ben Kenigsberg The film may be maddening as a character study, and it could damage an ionizer with its air of self-importance, but its experiments in form and tone are highly original. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019) Jason Zinoman Max Lewkowicz's documentary keeps reminding us of the multiple sources of inspiration for this quintessentially Jewish musical, from the paintings of Marc Chagall to the politics of the day. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Friedkin Uncut (2018) Glenn Kenny For all his career ups and downs, he has remained devoted to making genuinely challenging and exciting work, and has succeeded more often than not. The documentary serves as a strong incitement to dig into it. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) Teo Bugbee Bell imbues Brittany with humanity and wit, but all too frequently she is working within the framework of a story that seems hellbent on robbing her character of joy. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) Glenn Kenny Davis mavens will hear familiar stuff. But more than a few moments here are new, and real grabbers. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Vita & Virginia (2018) Jeannette Catsoulis "Vita & Virginia" takes a passionate, real-life affair between two enormously gifted writers and proceeds to throttle the life out of it. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
Angel Has Fallen (2019) Ben Kenigsberg "The Fugitive," to which "Angel" owes perhaps even its rooftop finale, is a template against which this movie inevitably falls short. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
American Factory (2019) Manohla Dargis Complex, stirring, timely and beautifully shaped... EDIT
Posted Aug 20, 2019
Ready or Not (2019) Jeannette Catsoulis Relentless and thoroughly preposterous, Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy's script hews to its own batty logic, its frantic pacing peppered with morbid humor. EDIT
Posted Aug 20, 2019
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) Jeannette Catsoulis Thematically underdeveloped yet pleasingly creepy, "Tigers Are Not Afraid" balances its mild terrors with appealing moments of childish creativity. EDIT
Posted Aug 20, 2019
Easy Living (1949) Howard Thompson But perhaps the most persuasive thing about "Easy Living" is the forthright depiction of professional football as a stimulating, cash-on-the-line business, one Mr. Schnee seems to understand from locker room to goalpost. EDIT
Posted Aug 16, 2019
Sextuplets (2019) Jason Bailey If there is a solid laugh to be found in "Sextuplets," this viewer missed it. EDIT
Posted Aug 16, 2019
Blinded by the Light (2019) Glenn Kenny These songs have the power to move, inspire, make you dance. For the first time in my experience of Springsteen, they made me want to hide under my seat. EDIT
Posted Aug 15, 2019
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019) Wesley Morris Watching Berman persist is fascinating, embarrassing and undignified, like a politician on "Dancing With the Stars." Why, I wondered, is he doing this? EDIT
Posted Aug 15, 2019
Aquarela (2018) Jeannette Catsoulis The movie, like the elemental forces we continue to exacerbate, never explains itself. Surrender to it, though, and a narrative - of spectacle, conflict and retaliation - will eventually become clear. EDIT
Posted Aug 15, 2019
Kingdom (2019) Ben Kenigsberg The film acquits itself honorably, even if its ultimate message is disquieting. EDIT
Posted Aug 15, 2019
Fin de siglo (2019) Glenn Kenny The measured ordinariness of its first section [is] a sly setup for a poetic film that handles narrative as a kind of scarf dance. EDIT
Posted Aug 15, 2019
What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018) Ben Kenigsberg The movie unfolds impressionistically. To call it a portrait of collective resilience is accurate, but that description shortchanges its richness on both human and historical scales. EDIT
Posted Aug 15, 2019
Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas (2018) Glenn Kenny The animation is handsome, the graphic settings understated but intelligently detailed. EDIT
Posted Aug 15, 2019