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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.4/10
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Ben Mankiewicz This still suffers from the same thing that they all suffer from... a deliberate undermining of their own actions scenes with very inappropriately dumb, funny, buddy movie jargon.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/10
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Alonso Duralde Anakin Skywalker is written as a kind of a big, whiny baby.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
5.5/10
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Matt Atchity The biggest gaping wound in this movie is the love story and the dialogue of the love story.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Rodents of Unusual Size (2017) Christy Lemire It's a fascinating look -- and it's only 70 minutes long.
Posted Jan 31, 2019  Edit critic review
La La Land (2016) Matt Atchity It's a really, really fun movie.
Posted Oct 10, 2018  Edit critic review
La La Land (2016) Christy Lemire It is joyful. It leaps off the screen.
Posted Oct 10, 2018  Edit critic review
9.5/10
Selma (2014) Matt Atchity [Ava DuVernay] manages to get both the small and the big moments. Thiis at one of the best movies of the year.
Posted Oct 04, 2018  Edit critic review
9.2/10
Selma (2014) Alonso Duralde I this movie has some of the most powerful moments I've seen I think all year.
Posted Oct 04, 2018  Edit critic review
8.9/10
The Florida Project (2017) Ben Mankiewicz What bothered me about this (and I ended up loving it) is that the kids are terrible.
Posted Sep 26, 2018  Edit critic review
9.6/10
The Florida Project (2017) Christy Lemire I knew form the first shot that I was watching a truly great movie... It's so real, it's so raw.
Posted Sep 26, 2018  Edit critic review
7.5/10
The Florida Project (2017) Matt Atchity There's fascinating stories here and it is, at a meta level, almost heartbreaking, almost infuriating that we know that this is a slice of our population that lives this way and doesn't seem to have any other options.
Posted Sep 26, 2018  Edit critic review
8.5/10
Selma (2014) Christy Lemire David Oyelowo breathes such life into it and makes you feel like you're seeing this person for the first time.
Posted Sep 25, 2018  Edit critic review
9.5/10
13TH (2016) Christy Lemire What [DuVernay] achives in a relatively short amount of time... feels thorough and yet concise and it's calmly powerful.
Posted Sep 24, 2018  Edit critic review
9.5/10
Tower (2016) Ben Mankiewicz You feel like you were there that day from the perspectives of the principal players.
Posted Sep 12, 2018  Edit critic review
9.6/10
Tower (2016) Christy Lemire [The rotoscope technique] gives it urgency and a sense of movement.
Posted Sep 12, 2018  Edit critic review
9.5/10
Tower (2016) Alonso Duralde This movie is very smart about when it unpacks its interviews versus its recreations. It does it in such a way that I was emotionally flooded.
Posted Sep 12, 2018  Edit critic review
7/10
Support the Girls (2018) Matt Atchity It's got a very wry, affectionate sense of humor, and I found myself laughing at the stuff in recognition rather than laughing at them.
Posted Aug 24, 2018  Edit critic review
8.8/10
Support the Girls (2018) Christy Lemire It's a celebration of sisterhood...This movie is so understated that this theme sneaks up on you in ways that are quietly powerful.
Posted Aug 24, 2018  Edit critic review
5.8/10
The Bookshop (2017) Christy Lemire I don't know how anyone thought this was still relevant now, because it's such an obvious idea.
Posted Aug 24, 2018  Edit critic review
6/10
The Bookshop (2017) Alonso Duralde [Isabel Coixet's] movies tend to be a little on the safe and vague side, and I think this movie falls into both of these traps.
Posted Aug 24, 2018  Edit critic review
7.5/10
Searching (2018) Ben Mankiewicz There's no question now...[John Cho] is a great actor. Only a great actor could do what he is required to do in this movie and pull it off the way he does.
Posted Aug 23, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/10
The Happytime Murders (2018) Matt Atchity It's just a waste of potential and time.
Posted Aug 23, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/10
The Happytime Murders (2018) Christy Lemire It never is anything more than the absolute simplest of concepts.
Posted Aug 23, 2018  Edit critic review
8.1/10
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Ben Mankiewicz One of the great things that Crazy Rich Asians does is [show] you...the idea that Chinese people who continued to live in China or Singapore...have a very different view of Chinese people how grew up in America.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
7.5/10
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Matt Atchity [Awkwafina] almost steals the movie and never gives it back.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
8.8/10
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Christy Lemire This movie is totally delightful...It's a wonderful mix of old-fashioned screwball comedy, romantic comedy, it's almost a musical at some points.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
8/10
We the Animals (2018) Christy Lemire A lot is told wordlessly very efficiently.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
8/10
We the Animals (2018) Alonso Duralde The movie doesn't tell you things, it just sort of leaves it to you to infer them from what the kids see.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
4.5/10
Mile 22 (2018) Matt Atchity There are pieces of very interesting movies here, but they never come together.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
2/10
Mile 22 (2018) Christy Lemire You have no idea what's going on. This movie is so overly edited, it's all shaky cam.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/10
Mile 22 (2018) Alonso Duralde This [movie] is dull and erratic.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
8.6/10
Skate Kitchen (2018) Christy Lemire I was impressed by the tonal and aesthetic balance that Crystal Moselle finds here.
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
The Cleanse (2016) Christy Lemire I was really impressed with this movie with the way that it navigates a bunch of different kinds of genres in a tricky way, 'cause it is a low-key comedy for a while, but then it becomes a sci-fi film and a legit horror film.
Posted Aug 15, 2018  Edit critic review
9/10
BlacKkKlansman (2018) Christy Lemire This is one of his best films because he marries the anger and intensity with the restraint and poetry that he's so good at visually.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
8/10
BlacKkKlansman (2018) Tim Cogshell Spike is contained by a true story, and being contained allows him to focus.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
9/10
BlacKkKlansman (2018) Katie Walsh A masterful tension of "I'm going to make you laugh, and I'm also going to make you feel really weird and uneasy".
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
The Meg (2018) Tim Cogshell It would've benefitted by being more dumb.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
5/10
The Meg (2018) Christy Lemire I wanted this movie to be wackier, crazier, and over the top, the problem is that it's PG13.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
5.8/10
Dog Days (2018) Christy Lemire If you want just like light happy doggy movie but, you also want the deep catharsis the satisfying deep cry this is it.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
3/10
Like Father (2018) Jason Carter I've never seen Kristen Bell more unlikable and Kelsey Grammer more likable ever until this movie.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
4/10
Like Father (2018) Christy Lemire There is an element with early onset Alzheimer's, that in the film feels very wedged in like as the emotional underpinning that they are going for which explains certain people's actions.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
5/10
Like Father (2018) Tara McNamara This is a fantasy for kids who've been abandoned and for some regretful parents this is a fantasy film, because it doesn't play out like that, there's a lot of trauma that you can never get past.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
5/10
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) Tim Cogshell I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Posted Aug 10, 2018  Edit critic review
7/10
Never Goin' Back (2018) Christy Lemire These two actresses have really lovely chemistry with each other.
Posted Aug 03, 2018  Edit critic review
7.3/10
Never Goin' Back (2018) Alonso Duralde I was quite charmed by them.
Posted Aug 03, 2018  Edit critic review
7.7/10
The Bleeding Edge (2018) Alonso Duralde [Kirby Dick is] an amazing filmmaker, and lately I think he's really on a roll about these very kind of specific activist docs about things that are happening that we don't know about that we should know.
Posted Aug 01, 2018  Edit critic review
7.3/10
The Bleeding Edge (2018) Christy Lemire It is hard to watch, but it's a must-see. My one complaint is that maybe it tries to get its arms around too much.
Posted Aug 01, 2018  Edit critic review
7/10
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017) Christy Lemire [Scotty Bowers] is sort of a fascinating jumble of contradictions.
Posted Jul 27, 2018  Edit critic review
8.6/10
Teen Titans GO! to the Movies (2018) Christy Lemire This is deeply steeped in pop culture and in comic book references, but there's context. It's not just self referential, it's also commenting on itself in ways that are really subversive and really daring. I was shocked.
Posted Jul 26, 2018  Edit critic review
8.7/10
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) Alonso Duralde There's a bit of an excess happening here, but it's excess of all good stuff.
Posted Jul 26, 2018  Edit critic review
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