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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
War on Everyone (2016) Demetrios Matheou I'm not sure that the genre has produced such an irresistibly funny film.
Posted Nov 20, 2017  Edit critic review
A
The Dark Horse (2014) John Anderson Contrary to the standard Hollywood diagnosis of mental illness, it doesn't improve according to how much love a sufferer receives, although there is a lot of love in The Dark Horse.
Posted Apr 01, 2016  Edit critic review
The Commune (2016) Demetrios Matheou This is less the social satire it may have been, and more a marital drama with a twist, propelled by good work from Thomsen (the star of Vinterberg's startling debut "Festen") and particularly Dyrholm.
Posted Feb 23, 2016  Edit critic review
Fire at Sea (2016) Demetrios Matheou The selection of characters is small, precise. The dominant personality of the film is Samuele, a nine-year-old boy and a terrific bundle of good humor and contradictions
Posted Feb 22, 2016  Edit critic review
Midnight Special (2016) Demetrios Matheou Nichols displays that rare faith in his audience, to go with the flow, make our own deductions or assumptions, to read into this cross-country chase what we will --Christian allegory, alien fantasy, or any number of options in between.
Posted Feb 12, 2016  Edit critic review
The Automatic Hate (2015) Ryan Lattanzio Low-key but effectively eerie.
Posted Feb 08, 2016  Edit critic review
The Revenant (2015) Anne Thompson A stunning visual tone poem about frontier survival.
Posted Dec 22, 2015  Edit critic review
The Hateful Eight (2015) Anne Thompson Boasts stunning wide-screen photography, dazzling long takes, time-shifting perspectives, mysteries to be solved, wind blowing through kicked-in doors and window frames, surging horses, raging blizzards, knives... and bodies piled on the floor.
Posted Dec 21, 2015  Edit critic review
B+
The Big Short (2015) Anne Thompson The Big Short reflexively comments on its Hollywoodness to pull in the complicit viewer and make them trust what they are hearing.
Posted Dec 15, 2015  Edit critic review
B
By the Sea (2015) Anne Thompson Jolie is aiming for an intimate Cassavetes-style exploration of emotion. Sometimes she gets there.
Posted Dec 15, 2015  Edit critic review
Joy (2015) Anne Thompson Lawrence ably carries Russell's first film with an everywoman protagonist at its center who is not crazy.
Posted Dec 15, 2015  Edit critic review
B-
Concussion (2015) Anne Thompson More effective as heartfelt agit prop than visceral drama.
Posted Nov 13, 2015  Edit critic review
Sembene! (2015) John Anderson Sembene! should be a major step in drawing attention back to a titan of world cinema, whose influence was never contained by the frame, or the screen.
Posted Nov 09, 2015  Edit critic review
Spectre (2015) Demetrios Matheou Some of the action is jaw-dropping.
Posted Oct 22, 2015  Edit critic review
A-
Sleepless in New York (2014) John Anderson As regards much of current nonfiction, it goes its own way stylistically, structurally, musically and sonically in telling the stories of people in the throes of a recent breakup, and how they cope -- or, obviously, not.
Posted Oct 07, 2015  Edit critic review
Skyfall (2012) Demetrios Matheou At times Skyfall is simply sensational.
Posted Oct 04, 2015  Edit critic review
Spotlight (2015) Demetrios Matheou Charting the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of widespread abuse of children by Catholic priests, this terrific film should be in the running for its own writing prizes, among others, come awards season.
Posted Sep 03, 2015  Edit critic review
6 Years (2015) Ryan Lattanzio 6 Years has universal appeal in spades, two lovely lead performances and a whole lot of truth.
Posted Aug 21, 2015  Edit critic review
B
Closer to God (2014) John Anderson Senese has made a convincing, slightly campy contribution to genre cinema. But he's also struck a blow against stupidity.
Posted Jul 01, 2015  Edit critic review
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014) Anne Thompson Hyper-flexible theater star Kathryn Hunter as Puck is a marvel.
Posted Jun 18, 2015  Edit critic review
4/5
Eden (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Mia Hansen-Lve's EDM movie memoir is the art-house party of the year.
Posted Jun 18, 2015  Edit critic review
B
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) John Anderson Electric Boogaloo is basically a celebration of chutzpah.
Posted Jun 01, 2015  Edit critic review
Dheepan (2015) Anne Thompson This movie deserves high praise.
Posted May 28, 2015  Edit critic review
The Midnight Swim (2014) John Anderson Swim is, among other things, a movie about sisters, who actually seem like sisters...This may seem like a small thing, but it's an aspect of filmmaking that's ignored often enough to be noteworthy when it's not.
Posted May 22, 2015  Edit critic review
3/5
I Believe in Unicorns (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Meyerhoff's scrapbook style will irritate some, and enrapture others. But in a world of increasingly stentorian female filmmakers, she's one to watch.
Posted May 08, 2015  Edit critic review
4/5
Saint Laurent (2014) Ryan Lattanzio For those cinephiles who go weak at the knees for tortured artists and decadents, it's movie heaven.
Posted May 07, 2015  Edit critic review
A
Sunshine Superman (2014) John Anderson As a movie about a guy who lived life the way he wanted, it will win certainly fans. It should win some for its execution as well.
Posted Mar 11, 2015  Edit critic review
4/5
Queen of Earth (2015) Ryan Lattanzio A startlingly audacious departure for the writer/director that also feels like a natural progression for an auteur in the making.
Posted Feb 27, 2015  Edit critic review
2/5
Knight of Cups (2015) Anne Thompson Like Tree of Life, it's best to let the film wash over you and enjoy Lubezki's gorgeous images such as mist rolling over a hillside and various inventive underwater perspectives.
Posted Feb 09, 2015  Edit critic review
B+
Human Capital (2013) John Anderson Human Capital works quite well as a conventional, if unconventionally structured, narrative, which may be why it's done so well in Europe.
Posted Jan 12, 2015  Edit critic review
3/5
Inherent Vice (2014) Anne Thompson Anderson had long wanted to adapt Pynchon--this marks the first movie to do so. Is it successful? That depends on what you demand from an L.A. detective mystery.
Posted Dec 10, 2014  Edit critic review
Patrolman P (2013) Anne Thompson Although Mizrahy's narration lacks a certain sparkle, the archival footage of what is now Old New York -- the '70s era of a burning Bronx, garbage strikes and John V. Lindsay -- is fascinating. So is Phillips.
Posted Dec 01, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Miss Julie (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Chastain's electrifying performance places among the great female dramatic turns in a literary tragedy, from Nina Pens Rode in 'Gertrud' to Nastassja Kinski in 'Tess' and Isabelle Huppert in 'Madame Bovary.'
Posted Nov 19, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Evolution of a Criminal (2014) Ryan Lattanzio 'Evolution of a Criminal' is a documentary and a provocation, a movie and a bitter truth to swallow.
Posted Nov 19, 2014  Edit critic review
1/5
Big Eyes (2014) Ryan Lattanzio A depressingly bad and soulless seriocomedy.
Posted Nov 14, 2014  Edit critic review
The Immortalists (2014) Beth Hanna [An] absorbing documentary.
Posted Nov 13, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
A Most Violent Year (2014) Anne Thompson Chandor leaves out many details and explanations for his characters' behavior; the movie raises more questions than it answers, including why the filmmaker was driven to make it.
Posted Nov 11, 2014  Edit critic review
1/5
The Gambler (2014) Anne Thompson Our anti-hero has a gambling addiction. He is depressed. He is trapped. And the arc of the movie is about him trying to ditch his unhappy life and pull it out. Snore.
Posted Nov 11, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Foxcatcher (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Part existential murder mystery, part Freudian detective story and fully an indictment of the American success story.
Posted Nov 11, 2014  Edit critic review
4/5
Force majeure (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Gruesomely funny.
Posted Nov 11, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
Long Distance (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Marques-Marcet's lovely debut opens with an impressively staged single take that manages to convey the entire universe of a longterm relationship in just 23 minutes.
Posted Nov 11, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
Goodnight Mommy (2014) Ryan Lattanzio A must-see for fans of extreme cinema and those movie-lovers who get off on taut editing, delicately placed sound design and tightly wound storytelling-and a must-never-see for pretty much everybody else.
Posted Nov 11, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
Kids for Cash (2013) Ryan Lattanzio 'Kids for Cash' will scare the wits out of anyone worried about how institutional neglect is affecting our kids.
Posted Nov 11, 2014  Edit critic review
3/5
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Araki's beautifully told films make you feel warm and fuzzy... revealing a latent darkness that leaves you unsafe and unsettled. And these warring sensibilities have never felt more at odds (or at home) than in the campy, creeping dread of 'White Bird.'
Posted Oct 23, 2014  Edit critic review
The Great Invisible (2014) Beth Hanna Brown has chosen her subjects wisely, so we get a full-spectrum view of Deepwater Horizon.
Posted Oct 21, 2014  Edit critic review
Night Has Settled (2014) Ryan Lattanzio Where Night Has Settled succeeds best is in the language, the left-unsaids and what-might-have-beens between characters, and in the disquieting textures of a too-close mother/son relationship.
Posted Sep 02, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
Boyhood (2014) Ryan Lattanzio An intimate epic as fresh and thrillingly alive as Francois Truffaut's films of Antoine Doinel, who was wrought in five movies beginning with The 400 Blows. Boyhood is but one movie, and it's just as subversive.
Posted Jul 09, 2014  Edit critic review
Radio Free Albemuth (2010) Anne Thompson It's an odd bird, but accomplished, and essential for Philip K. Dick purists.
Posted Jun 30, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
Coherence (2013) Ryan Lattanzio A low-budget sci-fi indie that doubles, and triples, and quadruples, as a truly original existential horror movie.
Posted Jun 16, 2014  Edit critic review
5/5
The Congress (2013) Ryan Lattanzio 'The Congress' widens the possibilities of filmmaking -- and in doing so, is as pro-cinema as it is anti-Hollywood.
Posted Jun 08, 2014  Edit critic review
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