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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Greta (2019)

David Edelstein

The film is intense and features a performance by Chloë Grace Moretz that's more committed than this swill deserves.
Posted Feb 21, 2019
2
Fighting with My Family (2019)

Emily Yoshida

What makes it memorable are its funny, sad little corners of very specific humanity.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
3
Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) (2019)

David Edelstein

The movie is a knockout.
Posted Feb 16, 2019
4
Isn't It Romantic (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

It's the Inception of rom-coms. Sort of.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
5
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

David Edelstein

Stalk-and-kill movies bear some resemblance to classic farces, but no horror movies have taken the similarities as far as Happy Death Day and its busier, just-as-fun sequel, Happy Death 2 U.
Posted Feb 13, 2019
6
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

Talbot is a striking filmmaker, giving his film both a lived-in authenticity - the location work is evocative, and he's filled the screen with oddball locals - and a fairy-tale hermeticism.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
7
Cold Pursuit (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

Cold Pursuit ultimately winds up being about how unsatisfying films like Cold Pursuit can be.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
8
Untogether (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

If only the film itself were willing to be a little more untogether, to lose control occasionally and show us something new and unpredictable.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
9
What Men Want (2019)

Emily Yoshida

What Men Want is a wildly uneven stretch of a movie that's more of a flail than a romp.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
10
The Prodigy (2019)

David Edelstein

The film is cruelly well-made.
Posted Feb 8, 2019
11
To Dust (2019)

David Edelstein

Shmuel's trancelike idiocy is broad for my taste, but Röhrig's helplessness is affecting and has a larger resonance.
Posted Feb 7, 2019
12
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

Emily Yoshida

The brilliance of Lord and Miller's film is the way in which, even more so than in its predecessor, the meta story informs the mini-figures' story...
Posted Feb 6, 2019
13
Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner (2019)

Matt Zoller Seitz

He doesn't seem to be trying very hard here, and the framework of the special allows for him to be just okay without the audience's feeling cheated.
Posted Feb 5, 2019
14
This is not Berlin (2019)

Nate Jones

Like Roma, these are the personal reminisces of a filmmaker who turned out pretty okay, one who can look back on his youthful foibles with clear eyes, but no small amount of warmth.
Posted Feb 4, 2019
15
Apollo 11 (2019)

Nate Jones

[A] masterful work of archival research.
Posted Feb 4, 2019
16
High Flying Bird (2019)

David Edelstein

High Flying Bird is an unshapely piece of storytelling - there are gaps in the plot, and it never locks into a rhythm - but [its] mournfulness and resentment seep into you.
Posted Feb 4, 2019
17
Never Look Away (2019)

David Edelstein

It's Middlebrow Realism, comrades.
Posted Feb 2, 2019
18
Miss Bala (2019)

David Edelstein

The souped-up plot is certainly indigestible, and there's a steady stream of bad laughs, but something genuinely frightening comes through: a woman's sense of disempowerment by men on all sides of the law.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
19
Piercing (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

Piercing is an unnerving mix of loveliness and lunacy.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
20
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Emily Yoshida

Alita: Battle Angel is an engaging piece of thoroughly computer-generated action pop, hokey and amiable and filled with enough set pieces to never drag.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
21
Arctic (2019)

David Edelstein

The movie really takes your mind off your own troubles. I liked it a lot.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
22
The Brink (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

What makes The Brink so different from just another platform for this professional troll? Though Klayman sticks to a largely vérité approach of following her subject around and observing his various interactions, she also provides important context.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
23
We Are Little Zombies (2019)

Emily Yoshida

A rainbow-colored scream into the abyss, Nagahisa's story of a quartet of orphaned tweens who start a chiptune rock band is as rigorous in its exploration of grief as it is stylistically exuberant...
Posted Jan 31, 2019
24
Sweetheart (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

It's not afraid to go for the occasional jump scare, but it's also an ingenious affair, a no-nonsense monster movie that uses its limitations effectively and tells its story cinematically.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
25
The Lodge (2019)

Emily Yoshida

As a psychological down-is-up horror movie, The Lodge has a few solid tricks up its sleeve. But when the smoke and mirrors clear, it's ultimately a story about trauma, and a rather bleak one at that.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
26
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

Emily Yoshida

Velvet Buzzsaw is perhaps the first-ever art-world horror satire, but it has the feeling of a bawdy night at a mystery dinner or an anti-Establishment mummers play - and I mean this in the most complimentary way possible.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
27
Behaving Badly (2014)

Gilbert Cruz

Behaving Badly is like an accidental thesis film about the Virgin/Whore divide in pop culture.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
28
The Report (2019)

Nate Jones

A sober, and sobering account of the Senate's investigation into the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques...
Posted Jan 27, 2019
29
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

Emily Yoshida

If the narrative film only exists to give us the unsettling sliminess of Efron as Bundy, it won't be a total waste. But it's not much of a movie, either.
Posted Jan 27, 2019
30
Native Son (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

Sanders's... performance breathes new life into one of American literature's most heartbreaking and controversial characters.
Posted Jan 27, 2019
31
The Farewell (2019)

Emily Yoshida

The little dramas and themes that emerge during the reunion of the film's far-flung brood become, like a family, more than the sum of its individual parts, and an incredibly satisfying meal of a film.
Posted Jan 27, 2019
32
Late Night (2019)

Emily Yoshida

What makes Late Night - otherwise a largely predictable story in a familiar mold - really pop is Kaling's script, which is at the blunter and frankly more exciting spectrum of what Kaling has proven herself to be capable of in her writing career thus far.
Posted Jan 26, 2019
33
Honey Boy (2019)

Emily Yoshida

In many ways [it] resembles other films about chaotic childhoods, alcoholism, and abuse. It distinguishes itself in the manner it weaves the concerns of an actor into that trauma.
Posted Jan 25, 2019
34
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

Emily Yoshida

Cornish is offering a kind of movie they just don't make anymore - expansive live-action adventure tales unabashedly aimed at young people, not the adults charged with taking them to the cinema.
Posted Jan 25, 2019
35
Serenity (2019)

David Edelstein

It didn't work for me: I was too hung up on the fanciness (and, in truth, ridiculousness) of the final half-hour to feel everything Knight wanted me to feel.
Posted Jan 24, 2019
36
Polar (2019)

Emily Yoshida

Polar is an execrable motion picture, a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino '90s exploitation baggie.
Posted Jan 23, 2019
37
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2019)

Bilge Ebiri

It's an effective little thriller whose occasional flaws come mostly as a result of its considerable virtues, so you roll with it.
Posted Jan 22, 2019
38
An Acceptable Loss (2019)

David Edelstein

Chappelle... seems too high-minded and earnest to commit to making a shapely thriller.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
39
Glass (2019)

David Edelstein

Oh, these poor actors.
Posted Jan 14, 2019
40
Buffalo Boys (2019)

David Edelstein

[A] moderately entertaining, immoderately splattery spaghetti Western...
Posted Jan 11, 2019
41
Perfectos Desconocidos (2019)

David Edelstein

It's very entertaining in a middlebrow Broadway comedy kind of way.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
42
The Upside (2019)

Emily Yoshida

It's a film that contains complicated, sad, interesting ideas rarely expressed on screen... but whose package is fundamentally unsuited to showcase those ideas, like a sweater with the holes in all the wrong places.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
43
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Emily Yoshida

I found my attention wandering.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
44
The Vanishing (2019)

David Edelstein

The movie is phenomenally well made and the three actors who fall apart on our watch suffer magnificently.
Posted Jan 7, 2019
45
American Hangman (2019)

Emily Yoshida

American Hangman is college-level death penalty discourse, appropriately armed with what appears to be a college-level production budget.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
46
Rust Creek (2019)

David Edelstein

It's tight without being punishing, and its humor takes you happily by surprise.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
47
Escape Room (2019)

Emily Yoshida

Escape Room's PG-13 rating doesn't allow for a lot of blood or gore, but it's not missed, and Robitel finds plenty of other ways to keeps his finger on the tension button throughout the film's 100 minutes.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
48
Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018)

Matt Zoller Seitz

The title Humanity is ironic in ways that Gervais didn't realize: The title tells you what's missing.
Posted Dec 28, 2018
49
John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)

Dave Schilling

This is arguably Mulaney's best hour special yet, a showcase for his immaculate writing and captivating stagecraft.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
50
Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia (2018)

Isaac Kozell

When not confined to the 22-minute restrictions of an up-to-the-minute news show, Noah really likes to stretch out, weaving well-rehearsed tales that always end up with a nice little bow on top.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
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